For women, the Pélicot trial has become a crucible of modern and ancient fears
is a heroine for our times. Every woman in my life who has read her testimony from a French courtroom has paid tribute to her. Every woman is talking about her.in her bed by strangers for a decade, persuaded that her mind was going when she began to notice the effects – theshe endured inhabits the uncanny space where women’s most outlandish fears overlap with our most quotidian, domestic experiences of violence. There are fairy tales about this kind of husband.
This matters, because the crimes committed in that house in Mazan, Provence, were crimes of silence. There’s little that silences a woman more completely than drugging her and rendering her unconscious. The man who did this lived beside her, day in day out, silently. The men who visited said nothing to her – either in that bed, where she lay unconscious, or through any attempt to communicate with her before or after to confirm her consent.
For women, the Pélicot trial has become a crucible of modern and ancient fears. It has always been possible to be married to a monster; it has never been so common, so ordinary, to be filmed without one’s consent, sexually humiliated by groups of men online, drugged by acquaintances with easy access to knock-out medications.
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