“Sexism is everywhere — so are we.” It’s just one of many slogans plastered across the streets of France in the timely documentary Feminist Riposte (Riposte Féministe) which is in the Special…
follow 10 groups of women around the country who are protesting about harassment, rape, femicide — and about the police response to these crimes. “Les flics” — aka the cops — are a silent force in this film, policing protests with grim faces. This is about giving a voice to the young women, recording their dialogue about the cause.
It’s clear that many of the women — who also include gender minorities and trans or non-binary people — are just getting to know each other, united by a shared cause. This allows them to share revealing stories. As with most protest movements, opinions can differ about the best approach. There’s talk of violent responses and an alarming chant of “Let’s impale all males!” A girl later reasons that this is a playful quote from a song, and that she’s not anti-men: “I’m more in the mode of: ‘Let’s find solutions’ than ‘you’re all sh*ts’.”
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