Le Coût de la virilité

In France, men account for 84% of the perpetrators of fatal road accidents, 90% of those convicted by the courts, 86% of those accused of murder, 97% of those responsible for sexual violence, etc. This list has a cost: direct to the State, which spends tens of billions of euros each year in police, judicial, medical and educational services to deal with it; indirect to society, which must respond to the suffering of the victims.Lucile Peytavin questions the reasons for this overrepresentation of men among the perpetrators of violence and risky behaviour, and tries to estimate the financial consequences of all these harms. What is the cost of the consequences of manhood as a dominant ideology? Should we not all be in the interest of acting... like women?!Lucile Peytavin has accomplished a colossal task. Cosmopolitan.Eclairant. The Huffington Post.