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Women's Rights & Issues

txwhitedove

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1. Great article. I had read about this, but no idea trial was ongoing: "MeToo revealed that every woman

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Mon Dec 2, 2024, 11:12 AM

Dec 2

can be a victim, ... but this trial shows us that any man can be a perpetrator. ...the professions of some of the men on trial, recruited by Pelicot on an online forum brazenly called “Without her knowledge”: a fireman, a lawyer, a nurse, a factory worker, a truck driver, a reporter. They were aged 21 to 68 at the time of the rapes; some are fathers, others grandfathers. Their banality is chilling."

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Great article. I had read about this, but no idea trial was ongoing: "MeToo revealed that every woman txwhitedove Dec 2 #1

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