“We Won’t Shut Up”: Revolt Against Harassment Grips French Politics

Anne Hidalgo, the first woman mayor of Paris in its two thousand year history, didn’t appreciate the joke a fellow mayor made behind her back at the building site of a new rapid transit line.

The men eagerly gathered around her, quipped Philippe Pemezec, acted like they were going to get blowjobs.

So she named and shamed him. “Let’s grow your audience,” she wrote in an open letter posted on twitter, “so that everyone can enjoy your sense of humor, your worldview and your dignified conduct as mayor.”

Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, courtesy of 20minutes.fr
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, courtesy of 20minutes.fr

 

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