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“How do we get men to stop raping?

This is the question that the feminist Mélusine asked on Twitter this Friday, in reaction to the conversations and exchanges sparked by the hashtag #MeTooGay.

A tweet deleted by the platform and which resulted in its author being suspended from his account for a few hours.

“Twitter forced me to delete the tweet and sanctioned me for writing it, denying me access to my account for twelve hours.

However, this tweet contains neither insulting or outrageous comments, nor calls for violence, ”she laments on Twitter.

Same phenomenon Saturday, notes the instigator of the We All movement Caroline De Haas, when the activist brings the subject back on the mat, after the restoration of her account.

. @ TwitterFrance has (again) suspended @ Melusine_2.


For these 3 tweets.

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Gender-based and sexual violence is overwhelmingly committed by men.

It's a reality.



So we ask (again) the question: "How do we get men to stop raping?"

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- Caroline De Haas (@carolinedehaas) January 25, 2021

"An anti-feminist measure", according to Alice Coffin

“An anti-feminist measure”, for the elected ecologist at the Council of Paris, the activist and author of Les

Génie lesbien

, Alice Coffin.

“Gender-based and sexual violence is overwhelmingly committed by men.

It's a reality.

So we ask (again) the question: How do we get men to stop raping?

», Reacts Caroline De Haas.

In reaction to these tweet deletions and temporary suspensions of Twitter accounts, feminist activists mobilized and launched the hashtag #CommentFaitOnPourQueLesHommesCessentDeVioler.

“For twenty-four hours, feminist accounts have been suspended by Twitter France for asking this necessary and urgent question: How do we get men to stop raping?

», Questions feminist philosopher Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, author of

the Women's Corps

.

And to add: "This question, we will ask it as long as we do not have the answer!

".

The hashtag #CommentFaitOnPourQueLesHommesCessentDeVioler has been used by personalities such as the author Mona Chollet, the cartoonist Pénélope Bagieu or the creator of the podcast Les balls sur la table, Victoire Tuaillon, the novelist Martin Winckler and the sociologist Eric Fassin.

Questioned on the social network, Twitter France has not yet commented on these deletions of tweets and suspensions of accounts.

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