Modeling And The Tragedy Of Karen Mulder

From the beginning, I hated being photographed. For me, it was just an assumed role, and in the end, I didn’t know who I really was as a person. Everybody was saying to me, ’Hi, you’re fantastic.’ But inside, I felt worse from day to day." It came after she laid a formal rape complaint in France against Prince Albert. It came after she said, “My job distracted me from my worries. It enabled me not to be myself, to pretend I was someone else.”

It came after a notorious appearance on French television where her various claims — that men at Elite had raped her, that she had been coerced into having sex to garner better contracts, that Elite had used her and other models as sex slaves in a ring that extended through the top echelons of French society, implicating politicians, members of the police, and other top officials, that her own father had raped her, that she had been sexually abused by a family friend from the age of 2, that she had been hypnotized and raped, kidnapped and raped, and raped some more — were regarded as so potentially libelous that France 2 not only never aired the segment, but destroyed the master tape.

onze ans mais toujours aussi flippant.

What amazes even more than how little the story actually differs from telling to telling, how fundamentally the same its elements remain, is our capacity for disbelief.

#incrédulité comme ennemi.

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#gerald_marie

Incrédulité comme outil toujours au bénéfice des mêmes, c’est une méthode de domination inscrite dans la culture du viol.
Un exemple trouvé il y a 20 mins sur les blogs de médiapart : « Faut-il croire en la parole de l’enfant ? »
▻https://blogs.mediapart.fr/lien-social/blog/121020/faut-il-croire-en-la-parole-de-l-enfant
et je ne tombe jamais sur des questions telle que « Faut-il croire en la parole des pères ? » alors qu’on sait très bien que les pères sont les premiers auteurs de viols sur mineurs, les premiers auteurs de violences et pourtant personne pour remettre en cause leur crédulité en tant que groupe.