Ask Jevons Newer Β». Content warning so much goddamn rape. Some men literally get off on secretly hating and sabotaging their wives.
Pelicot deserves all the respect for choosing to make her rapists face the public. And as I said in the Telegram thread, this trial - and the fact that her husband used unmoderated fora to recruit her rapists - shows why the French government is cracking down on such sites.
I am a woman, married to a man I completely trust. I cannot imagine being confronted with such truth. I hope her husband rots in prison and then rots in hell. Also, how fucking representative of this horror is it that they had to massively expand the dock in the courtroom to fit all the rapists in? Jesus fucking Christ.
I literally cannot imagine her bravery. I wish there were a place to send her support mail, but of course there can't be, because too many men would likely send her hate mail. The banality of evil, indeed. That Rachel Hewitt article asks some very pertinent questions. I mean, I know a lot of good men in my life, and notallmen, yadda yadda. There has to be an honest discussion at some point about what causes men, and only men, to act this way.
To want to do these things. And we need this discussion not as a way to hold men accountable or to punish them, but literally to help men to stop being like this. What causes men to have these impulses? This has been a public health emergency for women since the dawn of civilization, and isn't it about time we studied it and tried to find actual epidemiological solutions to the problem?
