The Road of Violence

Rose MacGowan spoke not only to denounce the sexual violence against women in the Hollywood system, but to explain why women have not said anything so far, why victims smiled when they were scorned, why they expressed a satisfaction when they were used as things, and that for so many years: they were afraid and ashamed. She explained that at first they had at ceremonies organized by Hollywood to the glory of Hollywood wearing black dresses. She explained that it was not enough and that it took the explosion of this kind of rage that finally the truth comes out.

Indeed, weak signals - such as mourning one's own dignity - are not enough when what is involved in overthrowing is what has been built in the last thirty years, from the United States and whose main victims are women: what must be named expressly "The Road of Violence"..

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Women are the cobblestones. We are the consumers. We are walking on this Road of Violence, we pay considerable sums to the industrialists who built this Road of Violence and develop it every day more by new highways, by drawing from the body of women, this inexhaustible wealth. We do it happily because the human beings we walk on, instead of shouting their pain and protesting against what we are doing to them, smile, affirm their satisfaction, seem to be asking for more.

That must stop. And that can stop. Because if we stop using this Road of Violence, then the industry of human, which is motivated and guided only by the magnitude of the profitability, will stop.

If we, active or potential consumers, do not do it, then women will be released themselves by violence, exhausted that we step on them. But if of ourselves we stopped to take this Route?

Because it does not take the only form of sexual violence in the film industry. Women are used and offered for the satisfaction of all our other desires. No limit, because they are so happy. This construction of the markets by new offers passes by the erasure of our own conscience. It is above all against our blindness that we must fight.

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Indeed, the solution is not that victims wear black dresses, which paradoxically refers to what would be even more "discretion" on their part, even "distinction", a solution that erases them even better. It is certainly not that the victims are fading away, they must not fade any more than they must apologize, they must not "disappear" anymore.

However, in order for us as consumers to borrow this "Road of Violence" and pay for the industries that build it, we must not even be aware of the fact that we consume human beings, an act of consumption we are rather reluctant. By ethics or because the Law reminds that the human being is a person and not a thing.

To provoke our act of consumption, the woman is thus masked. She is masked by a smile and a "consent". The argument is often returned to the faces of victims, perpetrators or their lawyers reminding that they have good "consented" to get into the bedroom, they "knew very well" that awaited them, they had a " interest "to do so (eg a role in a film). And to show pictures where we see the victims with the perpetrator of violence, both smiling, which would be the proof that they were "agree" or even "friends" and that we should not get involved. The moral order invading private life, that would be the enemy, the State not having to slip under the veil of women.

This argument is used systematically when it comes to organizing the transfer of women and children on a large scale. The surrogacy industry encourages us to pay agencies, clinics, doctors and lawyers to get a baby. The images and testimonies of "happy GPA" invite us to participate in the showdown with the States for the easy obtaining of a link of filiation between this child of which we wanted the birth in the world and us. Since for the moment the Law protects women by the prohibition of the GPA, any debate is good to take, any evolution of the Law going towards a "liberalization" of the practice. Industry leads us on the "good road".

What becomes of the mother? She disappeared. She is nothing. We are told that she is a "third party" vis-à-vis a relationship of filiation that is derived from the desire to parent. She ? She is only the mechanical instrument from which the child comes. Why worry about her? In the photos that are poured on the networks and in the debates, the women smile. In the recordings, they say: "I am happy, my only happiness is to make the happiness of others".

Thus, as consumers of women and children, we can walk on this Road. We know that mothers are poor, that they are paid. But what if they say they are happy? This is inevitably true, since they say it.

While we know that they are the mothers, the promotion of this industrial practice by the intermediaries most often established as a non-profit association in London or the United States underlines that these women have "freely consented" and that they have an "interest" because by the money received they can take care of their family. Everybody is happy. Fear, shame and guilt are never mentioned.

And so, thanks to our blindness, built by the industry and commerce of the human, and through which they thrive, the Road of Violence is unfolding around the world as never before previously.

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No, the recognition of the practices is not the solution, it is on the contrary the cement that the industry awaits to consolidate the Road of the Violence, this infamous Road paved on the smiles of the victims, so happy to prostitute themselves and to make the "magnificent gifts" of surrogacy), paved with "consents" to fade ("I agree to be nothing, and it gives me pleasure, because my only pleasure is your pleasure" ), paved on altruism and privacy ("do not interfere with anything, do not ban anything, never mention the defense of the human being, let us stay with the administrative difficulties to be regulated, what is the use of State").

You can take a position one way or the other. But we must name the realities. Either we admit to living in a world where everything is yielding and acquiring. And we say Yes to the sale of women. Which are an abundant but valuable raw material. Either we do not admit it. By ethics, which posits that a human being can not have status of thing. And the Law must not only maintain the prohibition of surrogacy, but must achieve the international effectiveness of this prohibition. That it is difficult, yes but this is another question. Do not offer businesses Law, and not only Law but also Ethics, to pave the Road to Violence, still adding to the strength they have to do it.

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