Posts Tagged ‘rape’
“I would like to assure you that I am against the idea of issuing anonymity to people accused of rape. I think it is appalling that at a time when victims of rape are being encouraged to come forward and press charges, the government is also seeking to protect the culprits. There is no basis […]
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Tags: Diane Abbott, Hackney, rape
Stop telling us to ‘take safety precautions’! After the rapes at Latitude last weekend the last thing I felt like reading was the Guardian article about the “safety awareness campaigns” for women, like rape is some kind of inevitable health hazard when you step out on the street. I am “aware” that I might get raped. I […]
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Tags: feminism, Latitude, rape
Film director Roman Polanski, who in 1977 gave Samantha Geimer, who was 13 years old at the time, champagne and the sedative drug Quaalude then raped and sodomised her (yes that’s rape, whether you call it rape or rape-rape, Whoopi Goldberg), won’t be extradited from Switzerland to the US to face sentencing because of a technical difficulty with […]
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Tags: rape, Roman Polanski
Rape anonymity proposal will go through without consultation Zac Goldsmith’s sentiment about ‘some women’ (see full email transcript below) is a platitude that: a) make him sound like a douchebag b) seems to affirm that women are more likely to lie more than men – or ‘certain women’, anyway c) doesn’t acknowledge the potential impact […]
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Tags: anonymity, rape
Please, stop it now
‘We will extend anonymity in rape cases to defendants’. 9 little words from the LibCon coalition, with no objectives listed, that have not surprisingly caused a right online hoo ha. Lots of feminists have argued that the proposal gives heft to the idea that women lie about being raped. I imagine the coalition will respond by saying […]
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Tags: LibCon, rape
