thurs., 7 oct., 2021: to the new french beard, iv.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & entirely total point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

FRENCH: La Barbe ‡

FRENCH: «Sexisme: Ils se lachent, les femmes trinquent...»   ‡‡

FRENCH: #BalanceTonPorc   ‡‡

           

  ‡)  Lit., “The Beard” = i.e., Basta!, Enough already!; “La Barbe” is also the name of a proto-#TimesUp French Feminist collective started in Spring of 2008 (in the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest in N.Y.C. for attempted rape & the perceived sexism of the French press's coverage), staging stage guerilla theatre, & appearing during official ceremonies or gatecrashing talkshows & corporate boardrooms, & reading parodies specifically prepared to match the particular occasion while wearing fake beards ;

‡‡)  “Sexism: Men let loose, women pay...” = title of a Feminist petition used to rouse women to the streets, done all over France in Spring of 2012 ;

 ‡‡‡)  #BalanceTonPorc — the French version of #TimesUp & #MeToo. NOTE: Unlike its Yank & Brit equivalents got quite a bit of blowback from older feminists concerned about turning a narrative for accountability into a narrative of women’s victimhood, as well as crininalising the guy’s ability to “importuner” or flirt with, even annoy or bother, women.

      

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