Sensitive men abstain.
In the one-woman-show called Caroline Vigneaux bites the apple, broadcast this Thursday, September 22, in the first part of the evening, on W9, the comedian attacks the inequalities between women and their male counterparts.
To unfold her demonstration, the ex-lawyer relies sarcastically on the major dates that have punctuated the history of feminism.
She comments in particular on this article 213 of the Civil Code stipulating that the woman must obey her husband.
She salutes the entry of Marguerite Yourcenar at the French Academy in 1980. But above all, she mocks this legislative provision according to which a woman was not allowed to wear pants.
A law repealed… in 2013.
“It's not a meeting!
Otherwise, I would have entered politics.
I
, says Caroline Vigneaux.
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The first sketch sets the tone of the show, when she recounts her arrival in a law firm.
She was recruited there at the same time as one of her comrades, Bertrand, who followed the same course at the Sorbonne.
However, despite a similar level of training, she will be paid 900 euros less than her colleague.
A discrimination which, like the apple for Adam, stuck in his throat.
"It's a true story,
" she says.
I felt an injustice.
But I didn't have the glibness, the energy and the madness of today.
So I did nothing."
If Caroline Vigneau bites the apple can make some testosterone-filled viewers cringe, she reminds us several times in her presentation that the public must arm themselves with second degree.
“
I am a feminist and I like men.
Besides, I'm launching a call: I'm single and I want it to be known!
she jokes.
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Caroline Vigneaux's humorous commitment resonates more than ever with contemporary news.
This Tuesday, September 20, in the columns of the newspaper
Liberation
, three women accuse Patrick Poivre d'Arvor of rape and sexual assault.
These presumed victims have just lodged a complaint against the former presenter of the TF1 8 p.m. newspaper.
Legal actions that have multiplied since Florence Porcel spoke out in February 2021.
“I hope that women will no longer hesitate to file a complaint and that we are moving more towards consensual sex”
, says the comedian, who herself was sexually assaulted in the subway.
These inappropriate gestures have helped to strengthen her feminist fight.
A national study from 2015 by the High Council for Equality between Women and Men indicates that 100% of users have suffered sexist harassment or sexual assault at least once in their lives.
