Brigitte Macron used a slur to criticize protesters who had interrupted a show by a French comedian accused of rape in 2021, in a case that was dismissed.

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There’s a big difference between being useful and being respected.

The Chinese dancer, choreographer and filmmaker “didn’t think in those terms” when she was young. Now, she said, “I’m more relaxed, more clear on what I want to do.”

“You need this renewal. You need new figures who are untouched, who were never part of these awful power games,” the columnist Lydia Polgreen argues.

Once again, we see how far this country will go to maintain the power of men at the expense of women’s bodies.

Cases of domestic violence in China point to a legal system that looks good on paper but is failing victims because of a lack of resources and political will.