Journalist and author Terri White explains how Gisèle Pélicot's case could change the narrative around rape forever.
This article references sexual assault and rape. Feminist Andrea Dworkin once wrote of women who had survived violence and abuse, women just like her: “No matter how often these stories are told, with whatever clarity or eloquence, bitterness or sorrow, they might as well have been whispered in wind or written in sand: they disappear, as if they were nothing.” Until Gisèle Pélicot, I thought that Andrea Dworkin was dead right.
And each incident was video-taped, burnt onto film as a moving-image record of what was done to her body. Maybe it’s this which has made the truth undeniable. The fact that the ‘isolated incident, just one man, just one woman’, argument dissolves when you’re faced with 83 men in a small corner of the world allegedly raping one woman because… they could.
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