In the following email quoted by the Pack, some arguments are correct but the expressions in red are out of the target because they underestimate the Pack. |
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Answer of the Pack |
"I am emailing about one of your latest efforts to remove the ad with Laetitia Casta with a black eye. Because of your efforts to ban the ad, I have searched to find a copy of the ad, and I do not find it offensive at all. |
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You have completly misinterpreted the ad and should not go forth with your efforts due to your ignorance in the matters at hand. You say it projects images of domestic abuse, which is far from the truth. Why would any store put up an ad of a woman beaten from domestic abuse? It does not make sense, and any similarities between the ad and it are pure coincidence. |
Has it crossed your (not necessarily narrow) mind that as women (and a few feminist men) we might have different ideas about domestic violence and appropriate subjects for humor than many men do ? In addition, knowing how much time and money goes into advertising campaigns, your idea about the violence being "coincidental" seems naive, at best. |
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I do not believe in violence, but the store is trying to turn a negative into a positive with a hint of humor. I regret your narrow mind has kept you from seeing the potential of the ad." |
In addition, the fact that our interpretation of the ad is different from yours doesn't mean that we have "misinterpreted" it. The ad (as with most images) can be viewed on various levels and from various points of view; ours is clearly different from yours. That does not, however, allow you to tell us that we "should not go forth with our efforts". Living in a democracy, where freedom of expression is a basic right, no one can tell us not to "go forth" with the peaceful, non-violent expression of our opinions, particularly when the goal of that expression is to reduce injustice and violence. |
In Errance by Damien Odoul, Lou says to her husband: 
You do not touch me anymore! 
Benoîte Groult is right when she says: "the feminism never kills anybody, while the machismo kills every day."
In Born in '68 Olivier Ducastel and François Martineau shot Catherine in front of the jail of Muret
where the singer of rock band Noir Désir, Bertrand Cantat did his prison sentence
after the death of the actress Marie Trintignant.
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In Nés en 68, Catherine demonstrates to legalize the abortion: |
Hence her arrest by the policemen in front of the motherhood of Figeac:
If you still have a doubt, Laetitia Casta also reads Le deuxième sexe [the Second Sex] by Simone de Beauvoir.
It was before the premiere in Milan in March 2008 of the John P. Shanley's play Il Dubbio [Le doute].
The negative of the Jean-Paul Goude's visual reveals not only the little heart but also a big WHITE eye,
the other BLACK eye seems to wink with humor.
In French, there is expression "oeil au beurre noir" for BLACK eye.
Why not for WHITE eye, "oeil au beurre blanc" made in Normandy from butter and creme fraiche.
Laetitia in an inversion of stereotype, as bride by Jean-Paul Goude in background of the first photomontage,
held in her arms the Black singer Henry Salvador! Isn't it a visual against a sexist cliché?
Paraphrasing the sentence "Lénine, réveille-toi ! Ils sont devenus fous"
at the end of L'Aveu [The Confession] by Costa-Gavras, I would put as legend:
Simone de Beauvoir, wake-up! They are become mad. |
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Related topics:
- Blue shiner for a red gem.
- Laetitia Casta with blue eye.
- The Pack bans the heart.
- In the land of Barbies
- Simone, wake-up!
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