Astonishing time which transforms the obvious, which sees scandalous provocations everywhere.
Since the dawn of time, it has been taken for granted that a woman has periods and that a man does not.
This is no longer so, as JK Rowling has recently discovered.
Whoever says so now will be accused of transphobia.
Likewise, in France, reminding high school students that they should not show up to class in the outfit they choose to go out to a nightclub is worth being accused of sexist remarks.
This bad fate has struck Jean-Michel Blanquer, for a few days, for having risked this obviousness, in a somewhat bombastic way, it is true, by inviting the young generation to go to school in
“republican clothes”
.
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Blanquer: at school, you have to come "dressed in a republican way"
The formula makes people smile but opens up a more important controversy than it seems, in the use that Blanquer makes of the term "republican", which becomes the only one available to designate a recommendable social behavior beyond the only requirements.
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