Before a round table between the first "
intervant.es
" (sic - is it necessary to specify it?), it is therefore the mayor of Lyon himself, Grégory Doucet, who welcomed Friday at the Hôtel de Ville the participants in these first “
international meetings on masculinities
”.
For two days, these have seen a succession of activists from associations, artists or academics, all concerned with "
launching an international reflection and courses of action to question the construction of male identities and their social and environmental impact
" (d 'after the website of the municipality).
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On the program, between two workshops to prevent "
sexist violence among boys
", the organizers have therefore summoned a number of artists, filmmakers, etc.
to remind meeting participants that “
in the dark men cry
” or that faced with the supposed lack of consideration of climate issues by boys, it is urgent to advocate “
co-responsibility in the face of climate change
”.
Nothing very surprising in a town hall which intends to create “genderless cycle paths” to reduce the inequalities between men and women on bicycles.
A confinement in a vision of masculinity prisoner of its "
patriarchal, heteronormative, capitalist, colonial and supremacist paradigm
" (re-sic), which made the Lyon feminist activist Alexandra Carraz-Ceselli jump, defender of an alternative approach to women's cause and founder of the Café des Lyonnes.
"
No need for inclusive writing to allow women to exist in public debate!
The real struggles for women's rights and emancipation are not there.
The landmark US Supreme Court decision revoking the constitutional right to abortion, the unbearable situation of women in Afghanistan, or Qatar making sex outside marriage and homosexuality illegal during the World Cup, are much more fundamental issues for the place of women and the future of our society,
” she wrote in a column published Friday evening in Lyon Mag.
