Having delivered a touching testimony on the set of the program “Everyone talks regarding it” as to the violence of which he was a victim and a witness, Roy Dupuis would also have been clumsy, according to the signatories of an open letter.
Invited to Guy A. Lepage’s show on January 22 to talk regarding the series “À cœur beating” in which he plays a community worker in domestic violence, the actor, who said he was a witness and victim of the violence of his father, evoked a connection between violence and illness.
“We already talk too much regarding domestic violence even today. I feel that there is a problem to be solved, to accept that violence, in essence, is a disorder, a disease. If we don’t take care of this disease, it will spread,” said the actor at the start of the interview.
For the GÎM Alliance of care and accommodation homes, which signs the opinion letter on which the QMI Agency was able to get its hands on Tuesday, “associating domestic violence with an illness is misleading and insidious. No, violence is not a disease!” she wrote.
“The use of violence is a learned behavior and unfortunately too often tolerated and too little punished when it is exercised once morest women, especially in the marital context”, added the signatories, recalling that in 80% of cases, men are the perpetrators of domestic violence, thus invalidating the idea that violence is a disease.
According to the GÎM Alliance of shelters and shelters, “saying that domestic violence is an illness constitutes a justification that seeks to make the intolerable tolerable, the inadmissible admissible, the inexcusable excusable”. It would be an argument that helps “normalize the abuse of power to avoid social and legal consequences and fosters social tolerance,” while excusing the violent person.
Perpetrators of domestic violence have a choice and “give themselves [l’autorisation] to resort to violence”, added the signatories Monic Caron and Nancy Gough, co-spokespersons for the Alliance and Robert Ayotte, ex-president and worker with spouses who commit violence.
As of this writing, the comedian has yet to respond to QMI Agency’s requests for comment.
