The shadow of the hashtag “Me Too” accompanied the Spanish Goya Awards ceremony, which will be held this Saturday in Valladolid (Valladolid), in northwestern Spain. American actress Sigourney Weaver said on the eve of this date that the “Me Too” movement has made a “huge difference” for women “in the way we feel our right to… Refusal, and asking the aggressor to stop his actions.”
Published on: 02/10/2024 – 17:58
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The Me Too hashtag, which was launched more than seven years ago, specifically in October 2017, has returned to the forefront on many occasions, allowing women who decided to break the barrier of silence and fear to talk about the bitterness and cruelty of the sexual assault they were subjected to and all the pressure, deception and psychological manipulation that accompanies it in the world of cinema, in particular. In Hollywood.
This time, the Spanish Goya Awards ceremony was another occasion for women in the world of cinema to remember their right to refuse and to demand that the aggressor stop, which is what she said.
American actress Sigourney Weaver, on the eve of this celebration in Spain, and at a time when Spanish cinema is witnessing accusations of sexual violence targeting a director. Three women accused director Carlos Vermut, one of the icons of independent cinema, of sexual violence towards them. These accusations sparked a wave of discontent in Spain, which is at the forefront of… Countries that combat all kinds of violence against women. The day before the Goya celebration, the Ministry of Culture announced the establishment of a unit specialized in caring for victims of sexual violence in the cultural sector.
The Me Too movement liberated the word that was hidden behind the bars of fear, the view of others, and their prejudices that sometimes even justify the crime of the attacker.
There is still a lot ahead of the Me Too movement, and the road is long, especially when some opinion polls absolve the aggressor from all responsibility if the woman who was raped was wearing a short skirt. The road is long because things will not change overnight, and the beautiful thing about the matter is that the silence may last, but it is not eternal, and the right to break it is guaranteed. It does not expire
This is what French actress Judith Godrich did thirty years later when she filed a lawsuit against director Benoit Jacot and director Jacques Doyon on charges of rape and sexual assault.
French director Jacques Doyon described these accusations as “lies” and stressed in a statement he issued that he was placing himself at the disposal of the judiciary.
Doyon considered that the denunciation of actress Judith Goodrich and other women against a system, stage, or society is courageous, praiseworthy, and necessary, but the validity of the issue does not allow for arbitrary convictions, false accusations, and lies.
