WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL CA #347 - Domestic violence: a human specificity! Man is the only species where males kill females of their species (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 ANTI-PATRIARCHY FILE: THE SOURCES OF SEXIST VIOLENCE ---- What are we

talking about? ---- According to Françoise Héritier, Man would be both
an animal like the others and unique in its kind, because the only one
to stand upright (anchor point of consciousness according to
philosophy), to have developed prehensile hands, a large brain, a throat
capable of language. To these characteristics is added a new one, Man is
the only species where males kill females of their species. Aggressive
behavior towards women is not an effect of the animal and ferocious
nature of the human being, but of what makes him different, whether we
call it conscience, intelligence or culture. It is because he thinks,
builds intelligible and transmissible systems of thought, that he has
built the system validating violence to the point of murder against
females of his species.
The facts: mostly committed in the home of the couple, the victim or the
perpetrator, "without premeditation, mainly with a bladed weapon or a
firearm" to which are added infanticides and for the year 2023, 773
women who, victims of harassment by their spouse or ex, either committed
suicide or made failed attempts. (source Miprof: interministerial
mission for the protection of women .....)

Who are we talking about?
When we talk about violence, violence against women, it does not occur
to anyone to say by whom? ... This is violence carried out by members of
the other sexual half of Humanity. Of course, there may be women who are
violent against other women, but generally it is male violence. The
typical profile of the perpetrator remains predominantly male, aged 30
to 59. The victim remains, for her part, overwhelmingly a woman aged 30
to 49.
To only talk about the victims is to evacuate the source of this
violence. Everything happens in the private, domestic, family space, a
place of all the dangers of exploitation, of submission to the role of
reproductive. The responsibility of the perpetrators of these sexual
crimes and that of the society that encourages legitimate dominant
postures are obvious to recall.
In France, a political choice was made to "save" women without acting on
the fundamental and recurring causes of male aggression by perpetuating
this tenacious cliché of the submissive, passive, consenting woman and
also of women with a fatal destiny conditioned by their biological sex.
Didn't Françoise Dolto (a famous childhood specialist) speak of the
little girl as a potentially rapable being?

Why?

The refusal of separation and the dispute within the couple remain the
main motives for the passage to the act. In Europe, and especially in
France, the explanatory theses of this violence are dominated by
psychological and psychoanalytical explanations linking aggressive
behaviors to individual factors of personality and life history,
Anglo-Saxon approaches rather attribute this violence to mechanisms of
social control and subordination of women to men. The recognition of
paternity is certainly at the origin of inter-sex violence insofar as it
can only be preserved by the confinement of women in what has been
called marriage, essentially intended to prevent the meeting with any
other male. This is how this "protective" closed room of the purity of
filiation will become the place of all dramas and even murders. The
machine of male domination is now in place: marriage as a legal
framework, jealousy as a tool of vigilance.

What to do?

Education is not the panacea when the formatting of future citizens is
based on a capitalist society that has every interest in preserving the
patriarchal hierarchy to renew the productive forces within the family.
Gendered education is still in place through games, sports, school
books, especially history books filled with "great men", ... but it is
indeed the beginning of the alienation process that must be broken at
this stage.
Gendered/sexual categorization is the reality of this world that defines
social roles according to this gender assignment, based essentially on
the ability to reproduce - see the latest alarms in France on the
announced demographic catastrophe!
While men, under the cover of irrepressible and lawful impulses, kill,
mutilate, poison the lives of women, it is they who suffer shame,
defilement and dishonor! Shame must change sides, it is easy to say, but
as long as the dominant culture continues to convey degrading images of
women as objects, how can we free ourselves from this hostile,
deleterious environment?  Not everyone has the determination of Gisèle
Pélicot.
However, it is essential that shame changes sides. And that women, by
leaving the position of solitary and helpless victims, use all possible
means to denounce what they are going through, to stand out and speak
out, whether through metoo or autonomous actions, more radical, it
doesn't matter! This is what has been missing for millennia, that women
understand that they are not alone.

C. EFFE

Evolution of femicides in France
Year 2010: 157 women killed by a man
Year 2011: 122 women killed by a man
Year 2012: 166 women killed by a man
Year 2013: 129 women killed by a man
Year 2014: 134 women killed by a man
Year 2015: 122 women killed by a man
Year 2016: 132 women killed by a man
Year 2017: 147 women killed by a man
Year 2018: 128 women killed by a man
Year 2019: 157 women killed by a man
Year 2020: 106 women killed by a man
Year 2021: 122 women killed by a man
Year 2022: 118 women killed by a man
Year 2023: 103 women killed by a man
Year 2024: 92 women killed by a man

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