There is something very moving and very disturbing about these images of thousands of women challenging the misogynistic rule of the mullahs in Iran.
Moving because we cannot be indifferent to the extraordinary courage of these women who stand up to one of the most cruel and backward regimes on earth with their arms, songs and slogans.
What if the army starts firing into the crowd? What will happen to these men and women? How long can they last?
But these images are troubling because, like a mirror, they send back to us a false reflection of the West.
The problems of the rich
While Iranian women struggle not to wear the veil, our companies and even the biggest fashion houses encourage it.
As Iranian women fight to protect their basic rights, we wonder whether to embrace inclusive writing, ditch sexy nurse dresses, allow drag queens to read stories in public libraries, allow men to spread their legs in the subway, or allow biological men. Identify as women participating in women’s athletics.
We burn comic books, cancel conventions, censor artists, prevent intellectuals from speaking, organize boycott campaigns against plays, force talented teachers into early retirement, and sing praises for Iranian women to risk their lives and finally express themselves. Virtues of Censorship!!!
In short, while Iranian women dream of living in a country like ours, the self-proclaimed “awakened guardians of morality” in the West are envious of the means of the least democratic countries on earth!!!
Think about it: while Iranian women are fighting Islamism, Quebec publishers don’t want to publish Djemila Benhabib’s latest book, and some bookstores refuse to sell it!!!
And perversely, you die…
We are also dying culturally, which is why Djemila – with a heavy heart – leaves Quebec for Europe…
Bourgeois Revolution
Since everything always brings me back to cinema, it’s time to tell you a story that happened at the Cannes Film Festival.
We are in the spring of 1968.
As Paris burns and bleeds 907 kilometers away, Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut demand the cancellation of the Cannes Film Festival to “support their comrades fighting for the Maoist revolution”.
Czech filmmaker Milos Forman and Polish director Roman Polanski both attended the ceremony, and this dad’s boys are left scratching their heads as they play dorm room Bolsheviks.
” What ? You want to enter the communist world? But you fools know what awaits you? It’s hell there, we dream of getting out !!! »
Well, there it is.
Everything is here.
3⁄4 of the planet’s dream is to live here.
We dream of Mao’s China.
Go figure…
