THE MAIN ENEMY IS NOT DEAD

Starting from a recent ''incident'' in Poitiers, this article intends to bring out once again the (symbolic) masculine violence that occurs whenever the men's social political status is denounced by women in ge neral and feminists in particular. A detailed analysis of the facts en ables us to describe certain mechanisms of masculine domination and of its legitimizing rhetoric. Ths is underlined the permanence of two pa triarchal classes, which cannot be brought even slightly into question without provoking a stiff response from the dominant class.