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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*?

Comments

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

That is truly depressing.

I think the judiciary tend to think of rape as 'ah, it's just a bit of sex'. Unreal.

[being-here.livejournal.com]

And there. In a few short paragraphs: the reason why I didn't bother with the police when it happened to me.

Every now and then I think I made the wrong decision. But no. The world is still thronged with fuckwits.

[vashti.livejournal.com]

You know if she kills him, she'll go down for life.

[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?

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

Y'know, while I don't like the death penalty, I sometimes see that it has its points. This waste of skin deserves a careless hanging so that he strangles for a bit, followed by a brief hope of reprieve before undergoing it all again.
If my Dad had been at that mockery of justice, neither of the defendants would have walked out of there, and dental records would have been needed. (Since my Dad turned 70, his already low fear of jail has all but disappeared - "They can only put me away once, and if they give me life, I've got the better part of the deal!")
It never fails to dismay me how utterly inhuman my fellow humans can be to one another. *Beckons the mahoosive asteroid*

[hieronymousmosh.livejournal.com]

8 years *maybe*, huh? That's the same sentence that a woman here got for trying to steal and sell Coke's secrets to Pepsi. Something about these two cases does not seem like they should be on-par punishment-wise.
I'm sneaking on unhurt's spaceship with you.

[kanaalzahir.livejournal.com]

NFEEAAGH. This is an accurate impression of me trying not to post but my fingers took over. Anyway.

Two points.

One. repton_infinity (hi, have we met?) makes one of my constant points about the problems with sex crimes. In muggings, "all" you have to do (which is not necessarily easy) is to prove that the suspect wapped the victim over the head and took their monies. In rape cases, it's not enough to prove that the suspect and the victim had sex, not even in what seems to be a somewhat kinky and strange way, to prove rape. You have to prove that it wasn't consentual (is that a word?).

Two. The judiciary as a whole are not insensitive horrible old farts who hate young women and believe they all lie. You don't know *anything* about their feelings, when they for instance have to judge the evidence as not satisfactory. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but this sort of prejudice pisses me off every single time I see it.