LE FIGARO.
- #MeToo-feminism considers itself "
the first serious questioning of patriarchy
", you write.
What are these feminists doing with the struggles of those who preceded them?
Sabine PROKHORIS.
-
Such an assertion, which is not simply naive, wants to see in #MeToo a “cultural revolution”: a clean slate for the advent of a world whose “patriarchy” will have finally been eradicated.
It is not based on a historical and/or sociological analysis of the relations between the sexes - as is the case with Simone de Beauvoir in
Le Deuxieme Sexe,
or with the sociologist Erving Goffman in
L'Arrangement des sexes
-, but on a double (pseudo) theoretical postulate: male domination is “systemic”;
and it is generated by a "narrative" - the "patriarchal" narrative.
In this view, “narrative” is what makes reality, in all its dimensions.
We must therefore substitute a "feminist narrative" for the "patriarchal narrative", through all sorts of mental and political re-education
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