“Woman, what is she doing outside after 10 pm?” Women on TikTok demand their freedom to go out at night

In France Inter This Tuesday, March 19, France Inter’s morning staffer Nicolas Demoran satirizes journalist Mathilde Serel’s pastille, imagining “a world where women go out after 10 p.m.” “But that’s crazy, isn’t it?” then adds his partner to the very second degree. “And you thought this world already existed. That we weren’t in the 60s anymore? Wrong. And even more so when 37% of men believe that feminism threatens their position and role, according to the latest data from the HSC (Supreme Council for Equality between Women and Men).

Matilda Serrell’s column is actually a response to male influencer Alex Hitchens’ walk (a spoof of the 2005 American film Hitch, Seduction Expert), which has nearly 70,000 followers on TikTok. On February 17, Isaac Mayembo, his real name, says in one of the videos . “I often say, wife, after 10 p.m., what is he doing outside?”

Known for misogynistic expressions. he especially “teaches” his subscribers to “know a happy girl” and allows himself to judge the number of sexual partners of women; “Since you have the strength of an 11-year-old, what are you doing outside alone after 10 p.m.?” It doesn’t make any sense. But women don’t want to hear anything, women don’t want to see the truth, women don’t care at all, because women want an ideal world, women want a world that never was and never will be. The world you imagine, hope for, will never exist. (…) So, shut up, stop sacrificing yourself and start defending yourself already.”

Response to actions

Since then, many TikTok users have decided to take Alex Hitchens up to his own game. In a series of videos, they mock the influencer in many situations. And this, always after 10 pm, just to show that they are free to live their lives the way they want. Alone or with friends, we see them attending concerts, dancing in the subway or at techno nights, filling gas, singing, going to the cinema or restaurants… An opportunity to prove to those who still doubt that despite the street. harassment, women are free and independent.

Still on France Inter, Mathilde Serel concludes her column by noting that “the women’s response after 10 p.m. is done not with outrage but with an affirmation of infectious freedom that wants to topple this other figure. Supreme Council of Equality. 58% of women declare that they have already given up to be single.” A percentage that is unfortunately growing.