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[...] In the podcast, The balls on the table, she confirms: 'we were taught to be vulnerable' and 'not to be able to defend ourselves to the end'. So, while rape is indeed a crime and perceived as destructive to the point that we can't recover, the same socialization through 'violence is very bad ; Nothing can be resolved through violence ; we must remain calm in all circumstances - While fistfights between boys are more common men are stronger,' which ultimately prevents us from hurting the other. [...]
[...] This goes hand in hand with the reflection of type working mother feeds her children, but she doesn't see them and takes care of them very little because of work, so she's a bad mother''. In fact, from our earliest age, through socialization - being the process by which we internalize the norms and values of the society in which we live during our childhood, even if it continues throughout our lives - young girls learn very early on their destiny as mothers, whether it's in school (through literary subjects against mathematics, which are more predestined for boys), in vocational guidance (part-time and/or non-decision-making posts), in the world of work (with the question of maternity in interviews) but also in other aspects of daily life: behavior to adopt towards brothers and sisters, especially if one is the eldest, cartoons, animated films, etc. [...]
[...] In conclusion, according to Virginie Despentes "after several years of good, loyal and sincere investigation, I have still deduced that: femininity is prostitution. The art of servitude." These are all double constraints, this control over the role that women must play in society. And those who are considered very feminine use these imposed codes by "habit of behaving as an inferior" and social survival. She concludes the book, almost like a solution, with the idea that men should in turn engage in a masculinist revolution. [...]
[...] King Kong Theory - Virginie Despentes (2006) - Studies of Genres King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, written in 2006, is a feminist autobiographical essay that mixes scientific and literary references with her personal experiences, notably by telling her rape (suffered at 17) and her intermittent profession as a prostitute on Minitel. In the podcast The Balls on the Table, she says that writing this book was difficult and anxious, 'almost non-rational ( . it wasn't a cool moment of my life, it was like being a soldier'"1 due to speaking publicly for the first time about what she had lived. [...]
[...] However, in my opinion, rape should never be considered a risk to take. When we go out on the street, we can have our bag stolen, but we don't think of it as a risk to take and inherent and implicitly obligatory towards any person who goes out. Rape should be considered the same from this point of view. « Rape is the proper domain of man which women - until now - have never claimed as their own22. Of course, the majority of rapes are committed by men, but it doesn't seem impossible to me that there are women who have aggressed and raped, even if these crimes and delinquities are minority. [...]
