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Gisele Pelicot, who is using her married name, has requested the trial of her ex-husband and 50 co-defendants since September 2 be made public to raise awareness about the use of drugs to commit abuse.

Dominique Pelicot, her partner of around five decades, has admitted to drugging her for years to rape her or watch her being raped while unconscious by dozens of strangers he recruited online.

The case has horrified France, especially as many of the co-accused are seemingly ordinary men with everyday jobs, and several of the suspects remain at large.

The courage and bravery, of Gisele Pelicot has to be fully acknowledged understood respected admired,

Such extreme mental anguish, the horror, the nature of continued brutal gross violation. to then stand publicly head held is a object lesson to individual resilience strength.

Is France in a midst of a "rape culture", I honestly don't believe so, these depraved perverted degenerate sadistic rapists must be made an example of.

The French justice system must offer no mercy on sentencing.

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Sorry but calling this rape culture would be like claiming the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer were part of a " serial killer and cannibalistic" culture.

Rape culture is an invented thing trying to vilify all men as if men all think this is OK.

The reality is that the vast vast vast majority of men know sexual assault is wrong and never ever do it.

There is a tiny portion that don't care, they know very well it is wrong and that is why they hide what they are doing.

No different than the vast majority of people know killing is wrong, stealing is wrong, assault (no sexual) is wrong, etc..but they do it anyway.

But we don't go around claiming "murder culture" " theft culture" etc....

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Rape culture is an invented thing trying to vilify all men as if men all think this is OK.

I don't think all men are on board with the grooming gangs in the UK...but it clearly is a culture

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Geeter Mckluskie

Today 01:27 pm JST

Rape culture is an invented thing trying to vilify all men as if men all think this is OK.

> I don't think all men are on board with the grooming gangs in the UK...but it clearly is a culture

Using that "logic" then where are the protests on general criminal gangs culture, street gangs culture, drug gangs culture, etc....

Taking a fringe group and trying to claim it is a culture is crazy, because in that case we could call any thing a culture.

These are criminals plain and simple.

Nothing to do with culture.

Culture isn't something people hide, but they do openly like in daily cooking, dress, festivals, etc...

A simple question, how many men do you know or have known that would do something like this guy or think what he did is OK?

Personally I am old and I don't know any and if I did I would report them to the authorities.

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Using that "logic" then where are the protests on general criminal gangs culture, street gangs culture, drug gangs culture, etc....

There are, in fact, such things as gang culture. "chinpira" are vastly different from those "striking" for the Satan's Choice, for example. "bosozoku" wear gang specific clothing and have their bikes modified the same throughout Japan...It's a culture whether you think it is or not. Just as those grooming gangs in the UK who have the same MO and target the same victims and often for cultural justifications such as "they are kafir" and as such are open season for rape...

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there is a culture witihin a 'slightly higher' status of males within the west??? aargh europe and allies that considers females to be pin cushions. (t,a,it) does this lead to rapes, only if rapes are considered more serious than child molesting and suitable state sentences (your choices in a demo nation.) are reinstated. Do that to my family member ..........

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Geeter Mckluskie

Today 01:51 pm JST

justifications such as "they are kafir" and as such are open season for rape...

OK I am sensing a little Islamic phobia here!

Again you take a fringe group just like these people and try smearing an entire group that does not believe or accept what this fringe group does or is doing.

So seeing most serial killers are white Caucasian males, then your logic means all white Caucasian males are serial killers or support serial killers.

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The irony here is that in the West Women are the ones that support more the far left that support being light on crime.

It is seriously strange.

Example: some man (possibly more than one) was going around New York City, punching women in the face, when the police caught the guy, he was released on a no cash bail the same day.

And then women complained.

In France it is no difference, women's groups are more likely to support the political policies and parties that are for leniency on crime.

So because they cannot blame the criminal system being lenient due to their support for these policies, well they need something or someone not connected to them to blame so they invented "rape culture".

Maybe they should back more strict laws and proper sentencing and more "punishment" during in incarceration and worry less about the "right and dignity" of criminals.

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(I'm not making any point here, just doing research out of curiosity)

According to this, France had the 3rd highest rate of reported sexual violence among European countries in 2022, behind Sweden and Iceland.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268551/sexual-violence-rate-europe-country/

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The Original WingToday  03:27 pm JST

(I'm not making any point here, just doing research out of curiosity)

According to this, France had the 3rd highest rate of reported sexual violence among European countries in 2022, behind Sweden and Iceland.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268551/sexual-violence-rate-europe-country/

It's worth noting that some countries have higher reporting rates for crimes like rape, like France, while others, like Japan, have really low reporting rates. This makes the stats misleading. In reality, the number of rapes in both countries is probably pretty similar, but the difference in reporting makes it look like Japan has fewer cases than it actually does.

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"Thousands in France protest 'rape culture"

This is a result of moral decadence, when you treat Jesus as a drag queen. Then what should you expect?

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There is no culture.

Only 2 guys have reported to drug their wives.

Half the men who contributed to this horror by raping Ms Pelicot have thought she was part of the scheme.

It is rape, all more or less perverse but not sadistic, since she never had guessed something was wrong.

She is very brave and her family will suffer like all of the perpretors to have it on the open media unfortunately whatsoever.

The town where it happened is already visited by media and called rape city.

It won't change anything, since as Antiquesaving explained, you will always have pervs so the only choice is not be lenient for justice.

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Half the men who contributed to this horror by raping Ms Pelicot have thought she was part of the scheme.

...they said.

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Jonathan Prin

Today 06:15 pm JST

There is no culture.

> Only 2 guys have reported to drug their wives.

> Half the men who contributed to this horror by raping Ms Pelicot have thought she was part of the scheme

Where'd they get the idea she was part of the scheme?

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EvilGod

Today 04:51 pm JST

The Original WingToday 03:27 pm JST

> (I'm not making any point here, just doing research out of curiosity)

> According to this, France had the 3rd highest rate of reported sexual violence among European countries in 2022, behind Sweden and Iceland.

> https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268551/sexual-violence-rate-europe-country/

> It's worth noting that some countries have higher reporting rates for crimes like rape, like France, while others, like Japan, have really low reporting rates. This makes the stats misleading. In reality, the number of rapes in both countries is probably pretty similar, but the difference in reporting makes it look like Japan has fewer cases than it actually does.

How does it make Japan look like it has fewer cases than it actually does?

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I hope all perpetrators get what they deserve

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In the western city of Rennes, a young woman held up a sign with the sentence "protect your daughters" crossed out.

> "Educate your son," it read instead.

Protect and educate your kids

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They should all get the maximum sentence allowed by law.

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Antique, obviously you have deep seeded problems with women

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Rape culture is imported culture from the third world. This article is an attempt to whitewash that fact. Islamists are rapey by nature. Mass immigration from the global south is the elephant in the room.

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OK I am sensing a little Islamic phobia here!

A modicum of research into the grooming gangs in the UK would justify such phobia

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So seeing most serial killers are white Caucasian males, then your logic means all white Caucasian males are serial killers or support serial killers.

2 things. First, not all Japanese are "bosozoku". That doesn't mean that there are no "bosozoku" in Japan nor that "bosozoku" culture is not specific to Japan. Secondly, when white Caucasian males begin forming groups to systematically kill people and those groups can be found throughout the UK or North America, then we can call it a "culture".

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