Emmanuel Macron the cog of rape culture? We already had doubts when the president defended himself last December” the immense actor » who is Gérard Depardieu during an interview, while the latter was facing several accusations of rape and sexual assault.
Michel Sardou, spokesperson for “male malaise”
This time Emmanuel Macron has decided to honor several cultural personalities. Second THE New Obs, the president will nominate Michel Sardou as a Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit at a ceremony scheduled for June. A prestigious decoration, because according to someone close to Macron, Sardou” he was able to diagnose, decades before Michel Houellebecq, male discomfort in his texts “.
A male malaise reflected in his numerous anti-feminist and “anti-woke” speeches, but also translated with this phrase: ” I want to rape women, force them to admire me » which he sang in the song “Les Villes de grande solitude”, published in 1973. This distinction was also denounced by Laurence Rossignol in a message published on X: “ Let’s calm down, it’s just an expression of male discomfort. And it’s definitely worth the decoration! »
Thierry Ardisson, 36 years of television sexism
Another decorated personality, Thierry Ardisson. The television program host and producer will receive the Legion of Honor this Thursday 11 April, in the presence of numerous bosses of the audiovisual sector, to celebrate his 36-year career.
He was recently (re)squeezed following the repair of an old exchange between him and Cristina Angot. On the set of Everyone talks about it in 1999, she openly mocked the incest she suffered. Overall, Thierry Ardisson is (very) regularly criticized for the sexism and homophobia broadcast on his various programmes, as demonstrated by this analysis published by Acrymatous in 2017, or this survey published by Vanity Fair the same year… Which hasn’t changed much since then.
Which doesn’t seem to stop Emmanuel Macron from celebrating it.
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