Pave: Barbie féministe

Le jour 432 de Sarko

Bon anniversaire, la République !

All this week Pave celebrates the French Republic's birthday.

What better occasion than la Fête Nationale to decry the sham equality of the Republic?

These actions, written into the “Charter of Equality Between Men and Women,” resulted in France‘s acquiring effective means in the last few years to improve the place of women in public life, professional life and private life.

The law on the equal access of men and women to elective office provides for parity in the executives of municipal and regional councils, and stiffer financial penalties for political parties that fail to comply with the legal requirements in terms of parity. It also requires a general councilor and a substitute of different gender to be elected in the upcoming local elections in the cantons. In this way, it opens up our local assemblies to “real parity.” With this law, a pool of women will be formed, leading to their full involvement in political life.

This law completes and strengthens our measures for parity in politics.

Jean-Pierre Lacroix,
then-Chargé d’Affaires to the UN,
bragging to the UN on French affirmative action
for achieving gender equality in France
PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUALITY AND
THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
NEW YORK March 7, 2007 (franceonu.org)

Ah, but where in France is M. Lacroix's completed parity?

DES FÉMINISTES COLLENT DES BARBES
AUX STATUES DE LA PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE
[FEMINISTS PASTE BEARDS TO STATUES
IN LA PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE]

PARIS 13 juillet 2008 (MSN/AFP) - Des militantes du groupe d'action féministe, "La Barbe", qui dénonce la suprématie masculine aux postes dirigeants, ont affublé dimanche les trois grandes statues de pierre de la place de la République à Paris de grandes barbes colorées.

Les trois militantes de ce collectif revendiquant une centaine d'adhérentes à Paris et Toulouse, ont escaladé le piédestal de la statue de la République, promettant de revenir chaque année tant que la France n'aura pas eu une femme présidente de la République, selon Marie de Cenival, fondatrice du groupe.

"Le 14 juillet, c'est la célébration de la prise de la Bastille, mais également de la déclaration des droits de l'Homme, qui sont aussi des droits des femmes", a-t-elle ajouté, en rendant hommage à Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), "première féministe".

EQUALITY PRANKING
Advancing Equality With Stunts
[Photo source: Jean Ayissi/AFP]

[The militant feminist action group, "The Beard*", which denounces male supremacy in positions of leadership, Sunday disguised the three large stone statues on the Place de la République in Paris with big colored beards.

The three activists claiming a hundred followers in Paris and Toulouse, climbed the pedestal of the statue of the Republic, promising to return each year as long as France has not had a woman president of the Republic, according to Marie de Cenival, founder of the group.

July 14 is the celebration of the storming of the Bastille, but equally of the rights of man, which are also the rights of women," she added, in paying homage to Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), "the first féminist".]

ADVOCATING FOR L'HÉGÉMONIE FÉMININE
Turnabout Is The Good Discrimination
[Photo source: Le Barbe]

It's no secret discrimination is rife in France. And women come in for their unfair share of it. In politics certainly the most qualified candidates should be put forward, regardless of gender. But making gender a qualification -- the qualification, which is the start point of La Barbe's position -- well, male or female, that is sexual discrimination. Standing discrimination on its head may be affirmative action, but it is still discrimination. As such it debases the very principle of equality that it seeks to establish.

MODE D'ACTION
Strap This Over Your Ears And Feel The Man Power!
(Fake Fur, Phony Beard, Sham Equality)
[Photo source: Le Barbe]

Those who politick with their genitals, stand to lose with their genitals.

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* As an interjection or exclamation in French "la barbe" has the additional meanings of "What a bother!", "Nuisance!", "Enough!" [Hat tip: Hervé G.]

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