In praise of castration

Women of the world are collectively enraged by the Giséle Pélicot case and our anger is growing. Giséle was drugged and raped by her husband and others repeatedly over a 10 year period. We try to make ourselves feel better by saying, “not all men”. Not all men but her husband and her neighbour and more than 80 other men in her community all thought it was acceptable to use and abuse the body of an unconscious woman for their own pleasure. Not all men but a nurse, a journalist, a local councillor, a police officer, prison guard, soldier, firefighter and civil servant. Not all men but all the men in the chat room who saw the chats and didn’t report it to the police. Not all men seems like rather a lot of men.

Even now some of these men don’t seem to think they did anything wrong with one quoted in the paper saying, “I am an exemplary citizen an exemplary nurse.”. No, you are not. You are a rapist and anything but exemplary. I hope they all go to prison for a very long time. At this point I would vote in favour of castration for the whole lot of them and for anyone who views and shares pornography of rape, paedophilia, and anything that is remotely violent towards women.

Sometimes I think women’s rights have come a long way but then a case like this appears. Meanwhile women in Afghanistan are treated like slaves by Afghani men, a woman in Africa was doused with petrol and set alight by her ex-boyfriend, a trainee doctor in India was raped and murdered, and in the UK, 1-2 women are murdered every week by men they know.