Women Reply (Réponse de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe)

WOMEN REPLY

TO A QUESTION ON ANTENNE 2

ON THE SHOW F COMME FEMME

OUR BODIES OUR SEX

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A WOMAN?

Being a woman means being born with female sex organs.

Being a woman means inhabiting a woman's body.

This is me. My whole body is me.

Not just the parts that satisfy men's lust.

I'm not just a vagina and breasts.

I am a female body.

Being a woman means having a woman's head, too.

But a head that thinks differently to that of a man.

I may struggle to find myself, to define myself in a male-dominated society.

But no, no, no, I am not a man without a cock or brains.

WOMANKIND

Being a woman means being unique,

desired, attentive and mysterious,

as well as crazy and individual.

- As long as you stand out. - Because women are allegedly all alike.

Pains in the neck, pointless, chatty, silly cows, sluts, etc.

WOMEN

Things are going to change.

I won't put up with being loved by misogynists any more.

OK, so I'm unique.

But I'm every woman.

OK, so I'm unique, but I'm every woman.

DO ALL WOMEN WANT TO BE MOTHERS?

- I do. - I don't.

I feel beautiful, full and desirable.

- "Give us brothers and sisters." - Says the child.

"Give us sons, soldiers, workmen, scholars.

"Give us daughters, cooks, factory workers, mothers."

Says society.

That suits me. I love children.

I don't take any notice of society. I'm giving birth to a child.

I'm not.

Women are made to have children, after all.

Do as I did, little girl.

A woman who hasn't experienced motherhood is not a woman.

What a cheek.

What about men who haven't been fathers? Aren't they real men?

What about Chevalier and Einstein and Mermoz

and Balzac and Mozart?

WHAT IS A REAL WOMAN?

How dare he decide whether we're real women or not?

What does it mean to be a woman other than in men's eyes?

What is a woman's body...

- ...if we must always take into account... - ...our weights and measurements?

Men deny us the right to grow old.

SHOT BANNED BY ARTICLE 283 OF THE PENAL CODE

If our sex organs exist for pleasure, love-making and children,

how should we treat them?

How should we treat our sex?

We don't appear naked in this film to be seen.

- To give men an eyeful. - But to assert our desires.

- Voluptuousness but not voyeurism. - Sexuality but not sex shop.

Love but not blackmail.

It's because having a woman's body means a huge contradiction.

A strange contradiction.

On the one hand we're told, "Hide your sex."