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Did Brigitte Macron offend the feminist movement?
French First Lady Brigitte Macron faced a wave of criticism after a video emerged of her speaking in an insulting manner towards feminist activists.
The video, which was filmed backstage at a French theatre, showed her meeting with French comedian Ari Abitan, where she used an expression that roughly translates to “dirty girls” to describe the activists who had stopped his theater show the day before, promising to protect him if they returned to object.
It is reported that Abitan faced protests from feminist activists since he was accused of rape in 2021, before the charges were later dismissed by the Court of Appeal in January.
In response to the video, the activist group turned the insult into a hashtag on social media, which quickly spread among women’s rights advocates and artists in France.
The French presidency explained that Mrs. Macron’s goal was to “calm down the artist only,” stressing that she did not intend to attack the feminist issue, and that she “condemns the extremist methods of preventing the artist from performing his theatrical performance.”
Marine Tondlier, head of the French Green Party, expressed her shock at the behavior, saying that “Brigitte the state should not say such words.”
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