Sandrine Rousseau makes a feminist gesture to the National Assembly, but what does it really mean?

Had we ever seen this sign at the National Assembly? This Tuesday, 4 October, Green parliamentarian Sandrine Rousseau stood up in the hemicycle, joining her hands above her head to form a triangle.

And no, it wasn’t Jay-Z’s sign, although we’ll agree, the similarity is striking. It concerns of a feminist symbol and given the numerous reactions on social networks, many simply had never heard of it (as proof, if any were needed, that the teaching and transmission of these great struggles are still neglected).

Sandrine Rousseau reacted to the speech of the president of the renaissance group Aurore Bergé, who directly punished France Insoumise and its management of the Quatennens affair :

“For several weeks we have been praising the virtue of those who recognize acts of domestic violence, for several weeks we have been hearing about their affection for a man who beats his wife, for several weeks we have been ignorant of the elementary rules of the state law of the wing.

We are discrediting the women and men, police and gendarmes, who, at the risk of their lives, intervene after complaints of domestic violence, we are discrediting the judicial institution, we are throwing away decades of struggles for our associations that have allowed victims to be accompanied by the only way that can end their suffering: the legal way. “

Rebirth, on the side of the victims (but only when it suits them)

Loud applause from the Renaissance group, on the far right. It was then that Sandrine Rousseau stood up briefly and made this historic feminist sign, which activists made during the demonstrations in the 1970s, during the struggles for emancipation and access to abortion and contraception. Represents a genre.

A particularly visible sign in the Parisiennes Citoyennes exhibition currently held at the Carnavalet museum in Paris.

Returning to the reactions following the revelations about Adrien Quatennens is one thing, but it comes from the political group that has never excluded one of its members, MP Benoît Simian, despite being convicted last June for harassing his former partner. , it is quite ironic, not to say touched.

It would not be a question of forgetting also the Renaissance silence on the Damien Abad affair, briefly minister, but still a deputy, and this, despite the testimonies of women who accuse him of rape or attempted rape, as well as the opening of an investigation.

In summary, no political party has lessons to teach currently in terms of managing gender and sexual violence within it …

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