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‘Oppressed Majority’ is a short film by director Eléonore Pourriat that takes a deep look at the prejudice and sexism faced by women. However, she does it in an unconventional manner, by imaging a world where men are treated like women, and the women have assumed the roles of men in society.
The 10-minute-long film tells the story of ‘Pierre’, an ordinary man who goes about his day in an unnamed French town.
Throughout the day, he is constantly harassed by women. He gets hackled on the streets and even gets assaulted by a group of women.
According to The Guardian, Pourriat said that her inspiration for the film “came from a personal experience”.
She said, “I was a woman. I was 30 years old. And my husband didn’t believe that I was—I was not assaulted, but I got remarked on in the street. Very often. He said, ‘Wow. That’s incredible.’ His surprise was the beginning of the idea for me. Sometimes men–it’s not their fault–they don’t imagine that women are assaulted even with words every day, with small, slight words. They can’t imagine that because they are not confronted with that themselves.”
The video was released on 5 February 2014, and has gone viral with close to 7 million views.
What are your thoughts on the video?
Click to watch the slightly NSFW video below:
[via PSFK and The Guardian]
‘Oppressed Majority’ is a short film by director Eléonore Pourriat that takes a deep look at the prejudice and sexism faced by women. However, she does it in an unconventional manner, by imaging a world where men are treated like women, and the women have assumed the roles of men in society.
The 10-minute-long film tells the story of ‘Pierre’, an ordinary man who goes about his day in an unnamed French town.
Throughout the day, he is constantly harassed by women. He gets hackled on the streets and even gets assaulted by a group of women.
According to The Guardian, Pourriat said that her inspiration for the film “came from a personal experience”.
She said, “I was a woman. I was 30 years old. And my husband didn’t believe that I was—I was not assaulted, but I got remarked on in the street. Very often. He said, ‘Wow. That’s incredible.’ His surprise was the beginning of the idea for me. Sometimes men–it’s not their fault–they don’t imagine that women are assaulted even with words every day, with small, slight words. They can’t imagine that because they are not confronted with that themselves.”
The video was released on 5 February 2014, and has gone viral with close to 7 million views.
What are your thoughts on the video?
Click to watch the slightly NSFW video below:
[via PSFK and The Guardian]