They are denounced and condemned more, but in our society, sexual assault continues to be trivialized.
When you’re a woman, you learn to live with fear, in a way. We learn that we must always remain a little on the alert, in case someone disturbed has the idea to attack us in an isolated corner.
This reality prevents many women from walking in the woods, alone, for example. But it also forces them to be on their toes on public transit, which is all the more disconcerting.
repeating horror
The Journal indeed reported this week that a hundred or so sexual assaults take place in public transport in Montreal each year.
Despite the drop in traffic due to the pandemic, the portrait has not changed for 2021. Several victims are minors.
The STM says it takes the situation seriously. But the problem persists year after year, a little as if we had given up in front of a banal reality.
Palm at the FTQ
But the prize for the trivialization of sexual assault goes unquestionably to the FTQ-Construction, with the Rénald Grondin affair.
This former president of the FTQ-Construction, revealed La Presse, was able to be promoted to this title even if he had been found guilty of having harassed and sexually assaulted an executive secretary.
The actions took place over two years. The victim, broken one suspects it, suffered from depression and anxiety.
I put myself in his shoes. The test is to vomit. But the idea of seeing his attacker not only keep his job as an association director, but be promoted, is simply despicable.
Fortunately, there will be an independent investigation which will pin down the accomplices. The aggressor is doing well all the same, a week before his retirement.
Afterwards, we will wonder why the victims are so reluctant to denounce.
Reference-www.journaldequebec.com