Rape violence
They say ‘Kiffer’ to love, ‘fuck’ to make love, and believe that women – their mothers and sisters excepted – only like sex brutal. Investigation.
Jean-Baptiste Drouet
The ‘babes’ they like it, they want more, these ‘lops’ [editor’s note: ‘sluts’ in slang]. Newspapers, television tell anything. I swear, the ‘turning’ is the bitches that want them. ‘Class of BEP of a vocational high school (SMP) in the heart of a difficult district of Hauts-de-Seine. Mapping of the class: a girl, fifteen boys. Average age: between 15 and 17. Topic of debate: Are rotating or non-gang rape? Youssef speaks very, very strong. Others just listen. Insults, shouts, laughter fat, screaming, heckling.Most young people move (legs, feet, hands, head), fiddling with something, play with their laptops … outward signs of inner unable to concentrate, listen, argumenter.Nadia, the only daughter, refuses to ‘lack of respect to him.’ His neighbor table throws him, almost threatening: ‘Stop, farcical, how we adore thee ravaging’ scnecke ‘[note: the female] …’ Look small boss, looks strong and sustained-mouthed, Youssef recognizes participate in rotating: ‘When a girl is good, it makes me’ Kiffer ‘, it must pass to friends, not play it personal. Suddenly, the professor plunges his audience into a puzzled silence by releasing ‘What if your sister took part in a rotating, it would make you what? A young claps his hand: ‘I killed her! On my mother, I bleed! ‘The others agree. General malaise, tension becomes almost palpable. The problem does seem significant:how to love a woman, when you have this perception so ambiguous, extremist, dangerously contradictory, which oscillates between two contradictory representations?
On the one hand, mothers and sisters, trapped between the machismo culture of gangs and Muslim tradition, icons are idealized, and dominated desexualized, prisoners of the family, which is prohibited even the right to femininity. The other, girls easy sex objects, women without residual family identity, which would neither mothers or sisters of person, ‘hotties’, the ‘whores’ that can rotate at leisure in cellars. In both cases, they are designated by the insult, inseparable from the language of young people when we talk about femininity. ‘You have to decipher these insults. They have a very important sense symbolic and real, ‘says Xavier Pommereau, psychiatrist, head of department of medical-psychological unit of the adolescent and young adult university hospital of Bordeaux.’Mothers and sisters are all the buzz, especially in invective. In a world where the insult is a mode of communication, it shows their importance, their dominant role in the affective. It is also the cruel fact of the lack of a father. ‘
The father, key social actor, is actually absent insults: if the ‘fuck your mother’ is much used at the point of giving his name to a famous rap group, it is not, to date, ‘fuck your father.’ Xavier Pommereau continues: ‘The father is the one who is law. In the difficult suburbs, there is a complete devaluation of the place and status of the father, which must be understood by the rest of society as a lack of confrontation with the rules and limits. Because the father’s authority. He who accepts, for education, confrontation by giving temperate forms and acceptable. Avoidance of confrontation that comes violence. ‘
This lack of paternal presence would also explain the unhappiness and inability to love outside the power struggle, the conflict, which would have implications far as sexuality. ‘In childhood, the father’s authority regulates the male desire to possess and shape sexual identity. We can see the girl rotating as a scapegoat for the lack of that authority. This analysis is confirmed by Xavier Pommereau on the ground by police, the ultimate holders of authority when the rest of society has resigned.
Lawrence police lieutenant working in the ZUP (priority development area) Dammarie-les-Lys, Seine-et-Marne, in fact the experience: ‘When bands provoke us for no reason, they look much a baston a benchmark. It seems that physical confrontation is an emotional dimension in style attraction and repulsion. From 8, 10, the boys harass us constantly. I’m sure these kids want unconsciously scolding or spanking they never home.Moreover, a young dealer told me that I had tightened last summer, he liked me because I had been kicking ass he had never received his father … ‘
‘They are very linked to the police, their new partner, the latter to the limits and not to flee,’ said Fabrice also Génestal, director of ‘The Squale’, who first showed in a film The sordid reality of rotating about the press and television were then extensively developed. Originally from Courtillières, Pantin, he taught in ZEP (priority education zones) in Sarcelles, in Seine-Saint-Denis, Villiers-le-Bel, Val-d’Oise. When writing his script, he has worked extensively on this phenomenon, its genesis and its symbolic cultural and social: ‘Young people isolate themselves for watching pornographic movies. The tragedy is that they make their sex education through these images. In cities, we look at X-band tapes.These films convey a macho ideology, based on male domination and the glorification of gang rape, through the famous ‘gang bang’. It is this barbaric culture of immediacy of pleasure, sex as consumption, found in videos of rappers. ‘
Frédérique Hédon, sexologist, does not hesitate to go much further: ‘The rotary is not sexual, and the only pleasure these actors derive is that provided by pure violence, through domination, denial of others and territoriality bestial of the band. Thus, it is ‘turn’ a girl that is appropriated by the instrumentalizing like a cigarette, a joint, a bottle of alcohol or a stolen car …
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