Jean-Michel Delacomptée has just published a remarkable essay, “Men and Women. Notes on the spirit of the times” (Fayard, 224 p., €18.50).
The war in Ukraine strikes with the classicism of the roles of men and women in this country.
Ukrainians are fighting and dying to defend both their national soil and their women and children, the only ones authorized to take refuge abroad.
It is appropriate to wonder about what the war in Ukraine reminds us of and that Europe has lost sight of.
It is that women are not men, nor men women.
There are essential differences between the two sexes which times of peace can obscure, and which are over-emphasized in times of war.
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In Ukraine today, tankers in their tanks are male.
It is on them that the bloody hardships of combat fall.
They are responsible for protecting women and children, for whom the humanitarian corridors are reserved.
This does not detract from the value of...
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