Posts Tagged ‘crime’
Woman raped in Belfast — police unable to patrol crime scene because of darkness. If you’re ever in Belfast and require the aid of law enforcement do be sure it’s daylight, and you’re vehicle-accessible.
Posted by Irresponsibility **TRIGGER WARNING** Britain’s six-percent rape conviction rate is the lowest in Europe, which suggests it is time for fresh thinking. Step forward the Crown Prosecution Service which, in a rape case reported in the Guardian, has daringly redefined the issue. The case revolves involves “Sarah” who, after years of abuse, reported her [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility The effect of living backwards, the White Queen tells Alice, is, “it always makes one a little giddy at first.” Or, in my case, enraged. Given the backwardness I encountered first thing this morning was a clip from “The View” – a sort of American “Loose Women” – in which host Whoopi [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility The Christian Right, to paraphrase an old aphorism about Republicans, believes in the right to life “until you’re born” — after that, you’re in God’s hands. Unfortunately, church proved no sanctuary to Dr George Tiller, who Scott Roeder shot in the head at point blank range one Sunday morning as the doctor [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility As statistics go, this is a real stomach-turner: “The Mexican government has been trying to crack down on the drug cartels, an effort that has left more than 10,000 Mexicans dead in the last 18 months.” What makes it even more absurd and awful is that it isn’t even the point of [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Possessing a vagina is risky business. A quick skim of the news headlines shows that in Pakistan it will get you flogged, in Afghanistan it gives your husband permission to rape you and if you’re anywhere in Africa it makes you a walking target for HIV. Yippee. Contrary to what “post-feminists” and [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Another to file under close but no cigar: Rape Crisis Scotland has a new ad campaign out that most laudably intends to challenge our victim-blaming rape culture. The pictures are eye-catching and on-message, the whole thing drips sincerity but why, for the love of peter paul and mary, did they have to [...]
Posted by irresponsibility India Knight is worried about murderous male rage: “See also the extremes men now go to in order to punish their former wives or girlfriends: horrific news stories about fathers murdering their children and then killing themselves have become, if not quite commonplace, frequent enough to ring loud alarm bells,” she writes [...]
Posted by irresponsibility I saw the headline three days ago: Father killed children after losing custody. It’s taken me this long to bring myself to sit down and write about it. I’m still not sure I can; still not sure I can channel the anger and disgust and despair into comprehensible sentences. To summarise, David [...]
Posted by irresponsibility Stumbled across a post on The Curvature which neatly articulates much of what underpinned my post Reporting Rape – A problem of Perception?. Women are still viewed “unrapeable” becaue they’re too drunk, too scantily clad, too out-on-their-own-on-a-dark-night, too promiscuous or, even, too young. Infuriatingly, blaming the victim is still the default stance [...]
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