Posts Tagged ‘rape’
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 ¿Qué Fue Mal? asks Rolling Stone Spain on page 55 of in its Michael Jackson tribute edition. What went wrong? Predictably, they focus on the accusations of sexual abuse by “a boy of 13 years.” This, we are invited to believe, was the problem. How could anyone possibly recover their popularity, their [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Clint Eastwood’s musclecar hymn to all-American masculinity, Gran Torino, upset me so much, initially, I couldn’t write about it. The problem isn’t that I hate the film. Quite the contrary. I like it. Or did until the point where the only viable female character, Sue Lor (Ahney Her) in the film is [...]
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 [...]
The police will strike fast and strike hard at anyone who dares publicly question whatever foul nonsense the government plunges into next. The citizenry has been warned. The jackboots are being laced, the Tasers bulk-ordered.
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 [...]
Tell me, Pete, how exactly is your rape-apologist defence of Brand and Ross advancing equal rights for women?
Posted by irresponsibility There is something disturbingly fanciful about the (anonymous) Guardian feature titled ‘Now he can’t hurt anyone else’. It is about a rape – a particularly brutal, random, life-twisting attack. Really, though, it’s about the aftermath, urging us to see the silver lining; the sympathetic, efficient police; the capture of the perpetrator; his [...]
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