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Of Sex, Violence and Bad men | 08 octobre 2009

Yes, I've been busy. Mainly not sleeping at night and therefore having to work twice as hard in the day to get my brain to function. But now the little devil allowed his parents to sleep 6 hours straight so it was time to blog again. 

There are days when I want to share something found on the never-ending internet. Like an article that makes you think. or cry. or both. That's how I felt after reading the tell-all story of Eve Ensler's trip to the Congo. Ensler is the writer of very successful play "The Vagina Monologue" that focused on violence against women. She found a familiar subject on her trip although much more horrendous than you could ever imagine. Her description of the ordeal many women have had to face of the hands of mostly their own countrymen is horryfying. That the women of the Congo actually want to keep living after what has happened to them is a big mystery. And there is one man there, helping to rebuild the women literally from pieces, as well as psychologically and restoring their faith in humanity. Many will have to return home afterwards, and maybe live near their attackers, or get attacked again - if not killed, which actually sounds better after you know what is done to them, their families, their neighbors, their children. How can we let this "femicide" go on? Isn't it just as bad as genocide? The article is 9 pages, but to understand how strong these women are it was certainly necessary to keep it all in, and dont let it put you off that it is written for Glamour,surprisingly of all magazines.

This is not the only story of "bad men" in the world press today. Most people have heard about Roman Polanski's arrest. A very peculiar turn of events, 30 years after the crime was committed and although Polanski has not returned to the US, it has not really been a mystery where he stays or travels. Probably politically motivated by Switzerland but that is not the point. The outpour of support for the filmmaker is more disturbing. Celebrities have signed a petition for the release of Polanski, but seeing names such as Almodovar, Scorsese and especially Woddy Allen (who is married to his adoptive daughter) has no real weight. Many say it wasn't really a crime. I guess Time's Amy sullivan says it best:

But it wasn't just her age that made it unlawful. It was the fact that the sex was unwanted, that she repeatedly said no throughout the assault, that she had been drugged. Polanski isn't being hounded for behavior--like homosexuality--once thought to be deviant but now generally accepted as mainstream. In 2009, just as in the 1970s, it is considered a bad thing to rape a child and run from the law. And so will it be 30 years from now and 60 years from now. Even in Hollywood.

Could not have said it better myself.

Some of the loudest voices in support for Polanski have come from France. And from cultural minister Frederic Mitterand. Who faces "some criticism" for writing on Sexual tourism in Thailand. Not in a theoritical way may I add. He actually paid young boys for sex (he is openly gay) and liked it. It happend more than once.

"All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously ... the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire."

WHAT?! How is it possible that this man is allowed to stay minister and is defended by the government? It shows how messed up the hiararchy has become in France. No one should ever question the ones in power or acts of politicians. They are supreme beings. It just goes beyond me why French people can strike for any little thing but let things like corruption and total lack of ethics just rule free in their so-called democracy.

What all these men have in common, the lawless criminals of the Congo, Polanski, Woody Allen and Frederic Mitterand, is that they have no shame. They feel the urge for sex so they rape or kill or drug their victims, marry children they've raised or pay children for sex and because this is something they need or want they just go ahead and do it. With no regrets. And find it completely normal.

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