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[hellison]

Is there something up with lj, or is it just me? Everything has gone wonky.

Anyway. 'nother interview today, same as last one only for a grade up (in civil service terms) so it was tougher and a lot more on policy and management. Bleh. Hopefully managed not to disgrace self, and I think achieved the main purpose of going which was to hammer home to our useless director (who was on the panel) the relevance of what I actually do now, since my current manager helpfully informed a while back that he doesn't have a clue and didn't think it was anything relevant (barely restrained myself at the time from pointing out Very Strongly and Loudly that surely it was HER JOB to make him aware... but meh).

Anyway tis done now, thank god and the Central Library Book sale is on so YAY.


In news of less yay and more Complete Fucking Outrage -

Rapist jailed for 8 years

Surely this is a good thing? Well no, it's fucking not.
He and a friend caught a young girl with a group of male friends, robbed them and forced them to watch while he raped her twice, then phoned her mother to tell her how much he "enjoyed raping your girl".
He initially denied it but switched his plea to guilty at the last minute (given he was found still with her phone when arrested, not to mention DNA and the eye witnesses...).

Eight years. For rape, theft, false imprisonment...
Except it's NOT. We still have 50% remittence. So it's FOUR years.
Time on remand counts as double and gets taken off. So he could be out of jail before she's out of her teens.

If that's all he gets with that amount of proof - evidence described by the judge as "overwhelming "- AND admitting he did it, is it any wonder so many rapes and attacks go unreported?
The 'friend' who helped, held off *her* friends & robbed them and watched?
Out on probation.

What's the fucking *point*?

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

well done on surviving the interview.

am squished by work & cramps but A-FUCKING-MEN on the news report. i was livid when i read that this morning. four fucking years. and then i have arguments with arseholes online who think that feminists "make themselves into victims" by talking about the prevalence of rape, and the disgraceful way it's prosecuted - when it actually is prosecuted, of course. gah! in other news, black people cause racism by talking about discrimination and gravity is caused by apples falling out of trees.

on the same cheerful note: here's a female lawyer happily spouting misogynistic crap as part of the defence in a rape case. i shit you not, she said that the fat rape victim was probably glad of the attention. holy. mother. of. fuck.

today i am despairing of society. i have already this week read a blog in which the blogger explains why an online radio station's rape-jokes aren't funny. the responses in the comments from the men who like the show made me feel physically ill. (in short? they say: she lied about getting raped; if she was raped she should be grateful because she's fat; she can't have been raped because she is too fat to fuck [because rape is allllll about desire]; she can't have an opinion anyway because she's a. a woman and b. fat and these things make anything she says meaningless because they are clear indicators that the speaker is not an actual human being; she just needs a good deep-dicking and then she'll shut the fuck up about it; omg the menz freedom of speech is being threatened [because cheering on a man who wants to "hate fuck" named women in positions of authority to death is in NO WAY hate speech. at all.]; and my favourite, the expression "fuck her to death" doesn't imply rape because it hasn't got the word "rape" in it, you silly overemotional womenz.) i would like to not share a planet with these people, please. PLEASE?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

Well obviously every chubby 13 year old out there is just desperately waiting to get gang raped. And the skinny ones are obviously only skinny so they can attract the attention of rapists in the first place!

I lost the power of speech when I read that one last week.

As for the rest ... well. If you find another planet, can I come too?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

i'm building a spaceship now - think flash gordon. i'd happily share a planet with brian blessed in a nappy if it kept me away from some of these people.

the thing that nags at my mind, sometimes, is: how many men secretly think like that? what was that survey a wee while back where some terrifying proportion of men in a survey (i think they asked students) admitted they'd rape if they could be totally assured there would be no consequences? (no consequences to them, that is - i have yet to hear about a consequence-free assault. :/)

i am very cheerful today, can you tell?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard about that survey. I remember the BBC one where a strong percentage believed women were responsible for being raped (what they wore, what they drank, what they said...), which was bad enough. That one sounds frankly terrifying.

I know not all men think this way, I know plenty of men who don't.
But I really shouldn't have to think myself LUCKY to know them, 'not rapist' should be the default setting, not the other way round.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

re: lucky. i know! some of the "boys" on the board i mod - but may be leaving over issues not unrelated to this topic - are so damn smug as they announce "of course, i could never do such an awful thing."

as if it's something you get sweeties and a pat on the head for. gah! i'm not about to praise someone for meeting base-line standards of decency!

of course, they all think rapists jump out of dark alleys wearing ski masks, and that some girls are, you know, just more likely to get themselves raped (slutty ones, natch). not a date rapist among them. yet.

(hi. you now have a political blog thing. and it's all my fault.)

[hellison.livejournal.com]

'hey, i'm not raping you, do i get a PRIZE??'

meh.

and don't worry, I agree with pretty much everything you're saying anyway!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

Well obviously every chubby 13 year old out there is just desperately waiting to get gang raped. And the skinny ones are obviously only skinny so they can attract the attention of rapists in the first place

well, quite! because the magical powers of retrospective victim-blaming ensure that everything a woman is or does can be used to place the repsonsibility for rape where it belongs: on the shoulders of the women who get raped.




*looks for spare rocket fuel*

[thesme-01.livejournal.com]

And that's why I spent my teenage years in fear after being evil and depraved enough to develop a large bust.

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