The end of “Not all men”: 200 personalities sign a platform against male domination

This Saturday, September 21, Libération published the column signed by 200 men “against male domination”. A text that is intended to be a “road map” to fight against violence and for solidarity with women, in reaction to the Mazan rape trial.

“Where are we when our friends, colleagues, brothers behave or make sexist remarks”?” In a column published in Libération, 200 men question male domination, patriarchy and inequality, in light of the repercussions of the Mazan affair.

For all men

While complaints are spreading on social networks from men who are “not all men”,The platform is intended to be hard-hitting: to remind all men “not all men” that they also have a role to play against sexual violence.

“Where are we when women are assaulted ? No doubt busy questioning the credibility of the victim, while affirming that 'not all men', much less us", asks activist and therapist Morgan N. Lucas, the original signatory of this tribune.

“The Pelicot affair proved to us that male violence is not a matter of monsters, it is a matter of men, of Mr. Everyman”, underlines the text. Before adding what to say “'all men' is talking about systemic violence perpetrated by all men, because all men, without exception, benefit from a system that dominates women. And since we are all the problem, we can all be part of the solution."

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They provide a roadmap: "Let's stop considering women's bodies as bodies at their disposal", "let's unlearn what ’we have been taught, told about masculinity" and "let's stop navel-gazing, reverse the victim burden".

Dozens of personalities have signed the text. The entire list is published here. Among them, the actor Gilles Lellouche, the singer Eddy de Pretto, the comedians Guillaume Meurice and Waly Dia, the writer Gaël Faye, the chef Juan Arbelaez, the author Alexis Michalik and the rapper from Montpellier Vin’s.

Because for them: “Here it is [the road map], given by a man to other men because we are going to have to stop asking women to do the work for us.”