Caroline Vigneaux is currently touring with her latest show
Croque la pomme
.
The comedian will stop from April 13 to 16 at the Olympia in Paris.
On this occasion, she explains to
20 Minutes
what it is to be an "optimistic feminist"
A hilarious plea for feminism and gender equality!
After having "left the dress", the name of her previous show where she told how she had hung up her brilliant career as a lawyer to embrace that of a comedian, Caroline Vigneau "crunches the apple" in a resolutely funny and feminist show, which will stop at the Olympia in Paris, from April 13 to 16.
“In 2016, I was able to realize my dream because I did two dates at the Olympia.
And there, I doubled my dream!
Telling me that I'm going to do four dates in this mythical room, just talking about it, I have goosebumps, ”rejoices the comedian.
"With laughter, we lead to reflection"
In
Croque la pomme
, the comedian therefore goes back to Adam and Eve to mock the absurdity of the codes of male domination.
Over the course of the show, she recalls that Turkey granted women the right to vote before France or that wearing pants was still prohibited for women until 2013 in France.
A kind of history of feminism for dummies, carried out at full speed and with a lot of spice.
"Say like that, frankly, if someone invites me to see a show on the history of feminism, even I want to hang myself," laughs the comedian.
It would be forgetting that Madame 100,000 volts achieves the feat of being both funny and didactic: “If you turn things around, everything becomes funny!
When I changed my life and decided to stop defending people, I made a commitment to make them laugh.
I did not engage in politics, I am a comedian.
Once I said that, I make laugh with what I want.
We can make people laugh with serious and important subjects.
With laughter, we lead to reflection and a change of mentality,” she explains.
And to add: “Often, people say to me: “You are a feminist, it is in tune with the times”.
It makes me jump because I have the impression that it's rather the spirit of the times that is finally in my direction, ”says Caroline Vigneaux.
If she scratches the patriarchal system, Caroline Vigneaux has no dispute to settle with the male public.
“Most men have enough second degree to understand!
Men are often surprised because they don't know the history of feminism either.
Feminism is just the legal equality of men and women and many men discover themselves as feminists in my show”, rejoices the one who defines herself as an “optimistic feminist”.
“There are still important feminist fights”
She then gives her definition of this optimistic feminism: “It's being a feminist who knows that we are going in the right direction.
My grandmother did not have the right to vote.
Today, in France, there are no more misogynistic laws, apart from one: women do not yet have access to the Foreign Legion.
But sometimes I think to myself: “Are all fights worth fighting?”…”
Caroline Vigneaux fights for those she has made her own: "There are still important real feminist fights like the fight against violence against women, like equal pay... On this, we can put our energy and talk too status of women abroad".
And to recall: “In my life as a lawyer, I was nevertheless confronted with a lot of battered women and raped women.
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In the city, the artist is involved in the National Federation of Women's Solidarity, a network of 73 organizations and she has become the godmother of the National Days of Elected Women association.
“I think we are campaigning everywhere,” she comments.
And to add: “Culture, and especially humor, opens all doors.
“Like those around female taboos, such as female ejaculation, which she unleashes on stage at the end of her show.
"I'm going strong," laughs Caroline Vigneaux.
A hilarious and cheeky finale in apotheosis!
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