#JeSuisAvecElle : Or How Sexism Won Again
When one thinks of France, what comes to mind first is their cowardice. In terms of warfare, they regularly get their asses handed to them…
When one thinks of France, what comes to mind first is their cowardice. In terms of warfare, they regularly get their asses handed to them. They are the Seventy-Sixers of eating crow — possibly a delicacy there. The frogs eat some weird shit including frogs. In recent history, there’s Vietnam. They couldn’t handle the heat so they said, “Baise-Le” and passed the buck to America. Now these colors don’t run and we don’t accept defeat but we settled for a tie, which was nearly as disgraceful.
And course they went supine for the Nazis just like that. And they didn’t bother to help the U.S. in Iraq which is why I still only eat freedom fries.
What’s is also notable about the French is their sexism. The French man is known for his wandering eye and lack of filter. Take jolie laide Serge Gainsbourg. That Lothario with the roving hands is the archetype of French masculinity. One that is wire-thin, sporting stubble, a hangdog gaze and cigarette perpetually perching in the corner of the mouth — lit or unlit. It is a masculinity that treats women as objects, something for a man to enjoy, not a person with agency and a life. It is bold and it is brash. Take Gainsbourg declaring, “I want to fuck her,” while sitting next to a Whitney Houston as if she was an object designed purely for his pleasure.
It is a thread of sexism, seemingly innate to the character of the French man. It’s why Emmanuel Macron triumphed over Marine Le Pen.
The men of France couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a woman, no matter the fact that she would have made history. In order to win, a woman must be five times as good as a man. She must have more qualifications and experience than is demanded from a male peer.
Macron won because his wife is his former school teacher. French men responded strongly to that expression of sexuality and will to dominate.
Le Pen, with her husky, smoke-tinged voice that sounds like Kathleen Turner reading Rimbaud, never had a chance because she was a woman.
And men enjoy punishing powerful women because they fear being dominated by one.
Marine Le Pen deserved better. She was so qualified and came from a political dynasty.
Macron is a banker sleeping with his former school teacher. He panders so that he might win.
Macron might have won today, but the real victor was Sœur Le Pen who like Sister Hillary before her fought the good fight and was unfairly cheated out of her rightful position because of sexism.
It was the frères Mélenchon that doomed her. Just like the Bernard brothers did the same with Hillary.
But both will rise like a phoenix to crush their sexist male opponents. #ImWithHerIn2020 and #JeSuisAvecElle2022
Our female politicians deserve better. Women deserve better and little girls should be able to envision themselves in the highest office. Move over bros and frères, it’s time for the sisters and sœurs