"Feminists Encourage You to Leave Your Husband" by Alex Tamécylia, Punk Jewel
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We will never be able to thank Alex Tamécylia for this gift she has given to humanity, a sort of French sequel to Valérie Solanas ' Scum Manifesto . Responding to the American televangelist Pat Roberson, who feared that feminists would encourage women "to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians" , Alex Tamécylia, 37, " poet and performer ", takes the invitation literally. Dare! In Les féministes t'encouragent à quitter ton mari , she makes it the structure of her story-poem-slam-manifesto-anthem, explaining, methodically, how to put this program into action. Farewell reader "sorry nuanced kind reassuring pedagogue heterosexual even" ; hello radical feminists for whom there is neither forgetting nor forgiveness.
The first step is obviously to get out of heterosexuality. The basics. What's the point of saying why, when a few statistics are enough (and provided with the manual: "96% of perpetrators of sexual violence are men, 9 times out of 10 the rapist is a relative, 80% of sexual violence against children takes place in a family setting.") Rather than "killing one's children", which would not be very feminist, ielle encourages nulliparous women to remain so,
Libération