After Guylaine Tremblay recently denounced the violence of the comments about her body received on social networks, Mélanie Maynard lifts the veil of an attack she suffered on Monday: a man sent her a photo of her personal details via Instagram, accompanied by obscene comments.
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Mélanie Maynard chose to publicly share Monday morning’s screenshots of the news and the explicit photo of this man she doesn’t know.
“Just to keep in mind it’s super intense to receive messages like this on your private box,” the 51-year-old host wrote on her Instagram account.
“If you’re ‘lucky’ enough to have this person in your entourage, remind them that it’s 2023 and nobody, absolutely nobody, needs to be given a picture of their disgusting bulb. Never,” she adds for her 113,000 subscribers.
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hope for real change
Mélanie Maynard explains that she usually denounces such situations in an ephemeral way via her Instagram stories. But this time, she opted for a more permanent method, hoping to spark real change.
Comments of support for the host came quickly. Guy A, Lepage, Varda Étienne, Ima, Roxane Bruneau, Jessica Barker, Dany Turcotte, Josée Lavigueur and Julie Ringuette have all shown their support for their release.
Mélanie Maynard is not the only one who suffers from this kind of aggression on social networks. Mariana Mazza, Pénélope McQuade and Rosalie Bonenfant (Mélanie Maynard’s daughter) have all had to come out publicly to denounce similar situations.
“Let’s make peace for the women!”
The case of Mélanie Maynard is “a blatant example that we all need sex education,” said Kim Lévesque-Lizotte.
In 2021, he signed the documentary Hello, Here is My Penis, a “survey aimed at understanding why men send photos of their member”.
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Kim Lizotte.
“Some men find it amusing, banal, exciting or funny: It’s not. There is a large percentage of men who send dick photos who don’t even realize it’s an assault. Some of them think they will inspire desire in the person receiving such a photo,” she explains to the Journal.
Kim Lévesque-Lizotte wants people to redefine aggression.
“An assault isn’t just a rape in an alleyway,” she said. With the #metoo movement and our documentation, we are trying to make people aware of what an assault is. Sending a “dick pic” is aggression, regardless of intent. Let’s make peace for women!”
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