Camille Aumont Carnel, a champion of positive s**uality for her million social media followers and an ambitious maker of the French language, provides a raw vocabulary of “Words of Q” in her second book, published Thursday.
With this book, published by Editions Le Robert, the 26-year-old young woman chose to “work with the institutional” in her war against what she calls “the linguistic violence” of French, she told AFP.
“It starts with ‘the masculine prevails over the feminine’ when we are six years old and, from there, a whole bunch of other violence is born,” she argues.
The “fourth wave of feminism” activist then engages in language work to decipher “problematic expressions” and offer “the missing words” to de-dramatize the relationship to s**uality.
Rather than having “nothing to give a damn”, Camille Aumont Carnel suggests having “nothing to give a damn”. She speaks of “l b*do desert”, of “surprise gaul”, and denounces expressions like “losing one’s virginity”, which she considers patriarchal.
“Of the hundred expressions that I propose, if there are two that remain and which begin to exist in society, it is already a bet that has been successful,” considers the one who describes herself as “an opinion leader who has influence.