Perhaps neofeminism is already moribund and a rational and productive feminism can emerge from this long delusional tunnel. What strikes me as most dangerous with neo-feminism – which refuses both biological and historical reality – is its ability to arm the enemies of women’s rights, to facilitate the questioning of equality. But, despite a surprising relentlessness that refuses to take reality into account, which continues to present all the guilty men and all the innocent women since the dawn of time, the lines are moving fortunately.
Maïwenn is quite a personality. An actress from an early age, she has shown herself to be a talented author and an excellent director. But Maïwenn is not an activist. Maïwenn never played her sex for a career, she worked with her work, proving that women were directors like the others. Proof by facts will always be more effective. Maïwenn doesn’t care what people think of her, and if she wants Johnny Depp to play Louis XV, she first thinks of her film before thinking of the neo-feminist horde who are preparing their signs for the next demonstration. against the big bad patriarchy. The absurdity of the ridiculous neo-feminist outcry relayed by complacent media against an actor who has not been convicted of domestic violence has proven its limits. The seven-minute standing ovation following the screening of the film Jeanne du Barry, proves that a good film will always have the last word.
The Johnny Depp – Amber Heard trial lasted six weeks, was broadcast live on television, followed by millions of spectators around the world, who witnessed the very intimate unpacking of the life of the Hollywood couple. As Emily Hill, a columnist and relationship expert, puts it, “Women who don’t watch the debates think it’s incredible that you can’t believe all women. She’s a woman and so she was abused, he’s a man and therefore he abused her. When you follow the trial carefully, it seems rather that the abuse was mutual”. Finally, Amber Heard was ordered to pay 15 million dollars to the actor, and Johnny Depp 2 million to his ex-wife. Justice is the winner in this sordid affair, but, like biology, it is not justice that interests the activists of patriarchy for all.
Denounce a chimera
At the same time, Véra Nikolski, publishes a powerful essay: Feminicene. If we can deplore the useless linguistic precautions of the author, obviously fearing the wrath of Sandrine Rousseau and her sisters and consequently spreading pages of “they say anything, say it badly, nothing is supported , it’s a bunch of bullshit, but you have to understand it anyway”, she nevertheless manages to develop her idea, scientifically substantiated and refreshingly common sense: “male domination is a collateral effect of the need, for the species , to survive in hostile natural conditions, given the physiological differences between the sexes and the human mode of procreation, at a time when labor productivity is very low”, but the Anthropocene will revolutionize everything by allowing the emancipation of women, which is not the fruit of the struggles of our grandmothers, according to the established formula, but the consequence of industrialization, of scientific and technical progress which has freed women from the constraints of nature.
Véra Nikolski, after a vibrant plea in favor of progress and scientists who have enabled the fall of infant mortality (which confined women to procreation) and to radically ease the constraints that weighed on women and drastically limited their freedom, questions the dark future where the climate issue could send women back to the caves. She pleads for a feminism of mobilization, an anti-neo-feminism: “Feminists generally have no profession; they have no generalist skills; of the complaint, which are put forward, and not the contemporary figures of feminism of the TO DO.“Maïwenn will appreciate it, as well as all the young girls who are only offered hell to be born women. And maybe the media will stop being the sounding board for neo-feminists, who do nothing else than to denounce a chimera.
* Abnousse Shalmani is a writer and journalist committed against the obsession with identity