This is an example of what has always distinguished French feminism from the American and British versions: the attitude towards sex and towards men.
This clumsy and unacceptable line poured more oil on the fire and reinforced prejudices and cliches about French women.
In signing the letter, the French film star Catherine Deneuve set the feminist world ablaze.
In other words, these 100 French women, representing many more in France, argue that this new puritanism reeks of Stalinism and its “thought police”, not of true democracy.