Brings to mind the 70s feminist trope: "men are pigs"

[pique]

Truly horrifying. Makes you wonder how much of this goes on. The police only fournd out about it by accident:

France Confronts Horror of Rape and Drugging Case as 51 Men Go on Trial https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/02/world/europe/france-husband-rape-drug-trial-mazan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Hk4.NBiW.eRlRH2rDjkPy

[ShiroKuro]

Yes, I saw that. Absolutely horrifying.

[Steve Miller]

Wow!

[jon-nyc]

Jesus.

[AdagioM]

pig pig pig pig piggity pig.

horrifying

[pique]

Talk about a low purity score. Makes me nauseous.

[wtg]

It's bad enough that the husband was the main perpetrator. It's mind boggling that he managed to find 50 other slimeballs to participate.

[CHAS]

Incarceration would be a good start.

[AdagioM]

Castration, then incarceration.

[pique]

IIRR, there were quite a few more than 50, right? They are just prosecuting 50.

[wtg]

The husband’s day in court.

https://apnews.com/article/france-rape-trial-drugged-pelicot-943400b83a8b111bcd42a0fb23a1cfda

[ShiroKuro]

Wow. That's tragic. It doesn't absolve him in any way, but assuming what he said is true, it sort of answers some of the why.

“Today I maintain that, along with the other men here, I am a rapist,″ Dominique Pélicot told the court. “They knew everything. They can’t say otherwise.”

Good, let them all be prosecuted to the fullest extent of French law. (Which I know nothing about, but I hope incurs punishments in keeping with the severity of their crimes)

[pique]

His ex-wife is very courageous to allow herself to be exposed publicly like this. It's really quite noble. I am sure I couldn't do it.

[ShiroKuro]

I agree @pique

[wtg]

An associate of Frenchman Dominique Pelicot, who for a nearly a decade drugged his wife and invited dozens of men to rape her, admitted to copycat abuse of his own partner on Wednesday, blaming his mentor and a troubled childhood.

Police have said Jean-Pierre Marechal, 63, worked with Pelicot to drug and both rape Marechal's wife Cilia after meeting on a now-shuttered website.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/associate-frenchman-accused-mass-rape-wife-admits-similar-abuse-2024-09-18/

And of course there is the arrest of Combs.....