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She is!! IMO
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However you want to look for motivation, the core is misogyny, imo. If you respect women, you don't do this. I'm sure he has complications in his life, and he dealt with them by hurting and humiliating women.Another case when you are thinking, what’s in the person’s mind? Either his natural inclination were very specific, or he was totally wacko.
Rapes of Gisèle Pelicot - Wikipedia
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What I have noticed:
Pelicot worked all his life in an electrical company, but so did Gisele.
Gisele also had three kids with DP.
From 2007 to 2010, when Pelicot accumulated a lot of debt on his cards and depleted accounts (he was very bad with money), they divorced to save some assets, and Gisele took over his finances (so, she was better than he, and no memory issues?) Later, they married again. It was only when he retired and they moved to Mazan, did Mr. Pelicot start his experiments.
I thought that he made the rapists pay, but not. He had homosexual relationships with some of them; others were paying in Lorazepam for future sedation of Gisele.
My impression: Mr. Pelicot was more interested in men, but in deep denial, or ashamed, and Gisele, by refusing threesomes and swinger activity, deprived Mr. Pelicot of a more “acceptable” way of exploring his interests.
But as long as she was working as a business manager at EDF and raising kids, she was more independent, and Dominique needed Gisele. She provided him with “appropriate coverage”.
France was far less liberal in the time of Mr. Pelicot’s youth. Add to it a very bourgeois social stratum the Pelicots belonged to, and the fact that Gisele was managing Pelicot’s money, and one can see how dependent on his wife DP was and how his resentment grew.
That he didn’t care about Gisele at all is obvious. But why use the word “to punish”? I think his resentment grew out of the fact that in years of his youth and attractiveness, he had to pretend, and now, when things are more acceptable, he is old and past his primes. Angry with the time and the situation, maybe, but taking it on Gisele and other women. (He could have killed some, too). Beats me, but I don’t see any interest in women even if he was making these photos. For others, it could be voyerism, for him, probably a pass to that subforum. And how this picture of two guys, awake in a room with a deeply sedated woman, looks to you?
Righteous indignation.She is!! IMO
But she says she's not: It’s true that I hear lots of women, and men, who say you’re very brave. I say it’s not bravery, it’s will and determination to change society.IMO she's both a very brave, courageous woman and she's strongly determined to change society. She may not feel her own bravery yet. I hope in time she can feel and believe it.‘It’s not bravery’: key points from Gisèle Pelicot’s moving testimony
Woman at centre of mass rape trial in France gives testimony in courtwww.theguardian.com
From the same article:
People should learn the definition of rape, she said, after hearing the partners and mothers of some of the accused speak in their defence. The men who came to assault her were defiling an unconscious woman. She said: For me they are rapists, they remain rapists. Rape is rape … Of course today I feel responsible for nothing. Today, above all, I’m a victim … We have to progress on rape culture in society.
Bolded by me for focus.
She's displaying her will and determination to change society. Apart from being brave, she also has great clarity. Doesn't seem to be allowing anyone to manipulate her into believing she might be responsible! Don't get me wrong, no way she's responsible, but sometimes victims of crime believe they are or can be pushed and gaslighted into believing it. JMO
Oh, poor, regretful rapist hasn't had peace....since he saw the investigative info. I guess he had no problem after he committed the crime, but hasn't been at peace after learning he would soon be caught.
You took the words right out of my mouth. I would hope that he never knows any peace ever again.
So he admits that he took her to the truck stop with the intent of offering her up to be raped by strangers.
"In his first comments after her testimony, Pelicot unashamedly revealed how he had once raped her in a service station as they drove back from the Ile de Re holiday island off France’s Atlantic coast.
Mrs Pelicot's lawyer Stephane Barbonneau told the court in Avignon,
Pelicot had driven there to 'offer her' to truckers
but he insisted 'no one else was involved'
and it was just him.
He said:
'It was a fantasy of mine.
We were on our way back from the Ile de Re and I stopped at a service station and I raped her.
No one saw and it was not in full view of anyone else'."
Another new Court sketch
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