Brings to mind the 70s feminist trope: "men are pigs"
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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
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Wow!
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The husband’s day in court.
https://apnews.com/article/france-rape-trial-drugged-pelicot-943400b83a8b111bcd42a0fb23a1cfda
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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)
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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.
And of course there is the arrest of Combs.....
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