Catherine Porter, The New York Times:
Well, for Madame Pelicot, it was the verdict she was looking for.
But more than the verdict, she wanted to spark a large conversation in France about rape, the prevalence of rape, how the country treats rape victims.
And, by that measure, she’s clearly succeeded. Her trial and her decision to make it public and force the country to look rape in the face by watching these videos of her comatose body being probed and penetrated by strangers has really started a national conversation about relationships between men and women, about consent, about rape culture.
These type of conversations that were much more common in North America and after MeToo, but never really cracked here in France, are now fully taking place.
