Men should be 'free to hit on' women: French actor Catherine Deneuve
Tehran(KNA): Oscar-nominated French actor Catherine Deneuve is leading a group of 100 prominent women with an alternative take on the scandal that started with Harvey Weinstein before flooding Hollywood and beyond, specifically, how the allegations vary in nature/severity.
In an open letter published in France's Le Monde newspaper on Tuesday, 100 well-known female French writers, performers and academics, who co-signed the letter, said:
"Men have been punished summarily, forced out of their jobs when all they did was touch someone's knee or try to steal a kiss.
"Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or clumsily, is not - and nor is men being gentlemanly a chauvinist attack."
Source: Independent