“The patriarchy is also bad for men”, assures Andréa Bescond

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• In her excellent novel "A simple family story", to be published on January 4 by Albin Michel, Andréa Bescond follows the lives of two women and a man.

• The militant artist offers a violent and luminous work that echoes her fight against the violence suffered by women and children.

Andréa Bescond is an angry woman who has made the fight against violence against women and children her hobbyhorse.

In her "alone on stage"

e, which she brought to the screen in 2017 in collaboration with Eric Metayer, the young woman evoked her rape by a pedophile friend of her parents.

His first novel

, published by Albin Michel on January 4, follows three characters - two women and a man - over the years, between secrets, unspoken words and violence.

We find the favorite themes of Andréa Bescond in this fiction so lively and so fascinating that it is devoured in one go.

While she is already planning to bring the book to the screen while polishing her next feature film

, scheduled for April 26,

takes stock of the fight with the artist, which she relays via her Instagram account.

Why did you choose the form of a novel to tell this family story?

Writing a book was part of my life projects and my editor Caroline Masson encouraged me to make it happen.

I was inspired by the story of my great-grandmother who killed her violent husband with a log in the face and who spent part of her life in confinement.

And more generally of this submission to the violence suffered by women, but also by men, in the face of the models imposed on them.

But I also wanted to give hope: this novel is a hymn to courage and truth.

Rather than pitting each other against each other, which the policies that this division arranges promote, I would like to make it clear that patriarchy is as bad for men as it is for women and children.

Reconciliation is not only possible but desirable.

How do you respond to those who reproach you for being a misander?

It makes me laugh.

You can see me like this because I denounce state violence and male violence through my Instagram wall.

But I don't care if some are offended by what I post on Instagram.

The #MeToo movement is only five years old.

It is little compared to the five thousand years of patriarchy.

I know that many men want things to change, to be able to experience their sensitivity, to experience their emotions and for people to stop telling them: "A man doesn't cry, he must be strong, he must bring money must be manly”.

Manhood is expressed in ways other than violence.

It becomes a sketch to say that it is straight men over 50 who are resistant to change, but it is factual.

The first thing they do when you report cases of violence or inequality is to first clear themselves or point the finger at women.

They should come to terms with the fact that they don't want to give up their little privileges.

Why did you abandon the idea of ​​resuming your show “Les Chatouilles” at the theatre?

Producer Jean-Marc Dupontet refused to give me the same publicity as Richard Berry, whose Plaidoiries he

.

He didn't want to spend money on me since I reproached him for having supported the latter, accused of incest by his daughter.

As he saw that my novel was going to attract publicity, he said to himself that he could save money in this area.

I took over the rights to my show and the first thing he said in the media was that I referred to him as an archetypal powerful white man.

When I hear him say to me on the phone: "You don't make me want you anymore, you're no longer an artist, you got lost in your fight against sexual violence", I think he's the archetype.

I made a video to tell this and he was completely turned around because this kind of thing does not happen in his world.

He's not used to being pushed around.

Hadn't he supported your show since the beginning in 2014?

As long as I was the nice, smooth, blond little victim who palled around with the ministers and Brigitte Macron, everything was fine: I was out of pocket and fundable.

But since I made it known that I believe that we are being made fun of and that the government is just demagoguery without putting a round on the table, I have become a lot less interesting.

I am criticized for denouncing when I only inform.

I am consistent in my way of acting.

I refused to go on CNews which employs Jean-Marc Morandini.

I won't go, even if it's to sell my book.

I cannot denounce the failures of justice that women and children suffer on a daily basis and go to CNews.

It is a French specialty to have violent guys accused of rape in key positions.

Do you think that this indulgence explains why a Bastien Vivès exhibition was scheduled at the Angoulême Comics Festival?

The problem is not him.

There are plenty of guys like that.

The concern comes from the Angoulême Festival which glorifies violent speech and the violent man.

I want more of Angoulême than Bastien Vives.

They do not take the measure of the scourge.

The organizers would have given up the exhibition because of threats from the "wokists".

Once again, the charge is reversed.

The culprits are the people who fight for a better world.

He was harassed but we must not forget that he also harassed a woman, which is never underlined and allows him to be presented as a censored artist, a poor little innocent kitten.

The media are largely responsible for this.

I was angry with the cartoonist Coco who spoke of “the right to bad taste” in

Bastien Vives is not

.

The big difference is that

uses caricature to denounce.

There is nothing similar in the work of Bastien Vivès.

He puts on paper all his most disgusting fantasies which allows pedocriminals to jerk off on them.

You shouldn't confuse everything.

For my part, I am

to death.

You have to laugh at everything, but it's not what Bastien Vivès does that trivializes pedocrime and child pornography.

Couldn't public policy fight against these scourges?

You laugh ?

It's just demagoguery!

We victims are kind, smart and patient.

We talk, we testify and we wait for a public policy that will protect our children and it does not come.

I was so angry after the government buried the MeToo incest movement by laying only a poor law without releasing the slightest budget to fight against this scourge… The confinement has developed family violence and Eric Dupont-Moretti goes around media saying that everything is better, which is not true.

France is the world's third largest host of child pornography sites.

I have chosen non-violence but I feel intense violence within me.

I could kill someone with my bare hands.

I dreamed that I was massacring the man who raped me when I was little, but I never acted out.

I went to therapy, I worked on myself, and I never laid a hand on anyone.

Reconstruction is possible if desired.

Has writing done you any good?

I have long advocated resilience but I no longer believe in it.

I am indelibly broken.

Once the integrity is screwed up, it is irreparable.

I will be dehumanized all my life, but I was lucky to be born an artist.

My choice is to offer tools to society to transform horror.

Seeing people get better because of it is important.

My Instagram community is immensely benevolent.

The love she gives me keeps me on my feet as does the support of my 12 and 11 year old children who understand my fight.

Today, I can't say that I feel good.

My anger is immense.

I am accused of denouncing but I am only informing.

There is no fatality.

The state does nothing and neither does Emmanuel Macron's policy.

This will only get better when we arrive at the convergence of all the struggles.

We need the courage to look at the truth and to join forces against all violence, including social violence that we will face head-on in 2023. A handful of humans submit more people.

Until we realize that we have the power to rebel, we will not get out of this.

Television

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