More rape denial: NT AMA president

by Lauredhel on December 18, 2007

in Violence, gender & feminism, language, law & order

What is with the colossal deluge of rape-denial lately?

This time it’s the Northern Territory president of the Australian Medical Association. The ABC reports on high rates of “sexually transmitted diseases” in children in the NT:

Northern Territory AMA president Peter Beaumont says the statistics are shocking but are not new.

“It doesn’t surprise me at all – Pat Anderson and Rex Wild’s report into the Little Children are Sacred shows quite clearly that sexual misdemeanours against children and babies is rife in Indigenous communities,” he said.

Misdefuckingmeanours. Sexual misdefuckingmeanours. Against preschoolers. Sexual misdefuckingmeanours that include raping them and giving them gonorrhoea, syphilis and chlamydia.

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Lauredhel is a forty-something woman with a disability. She lives in her Western Australian family home where books, Lego, and soapmaking gear constantly compete for space. She blogs about feminism, reproductive justice, freedom from violence, the use and misuse of language, medical science, being disabled, her vegetable garden, and whatever else pops into her head. Lauredhel also blogs at FWD/Forward (feminists with disabilities), scribbles at her personal dreamwidth journal Selective and Arbitrary, and co-moderates Hollaback Australia. She joined Hoyden About Town in 2007.

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{ 6 comments }

1 Kaethe December 19, 2007 at 2:40 am: children and babies?

That’s so wrong.
2 Mary Tracy9 December 19, 2007 at 5:01 am: “Sexual misdefuckingmeanours.”

That actually had me laughing. EXCELLENT WAY TO PUT IT!!!
3 tigtog December 19, 2007 at 8:14 am: Trivialising sexual attacks is the cornerstone of the rape culture.
4 sue December 19, 2007 at 1:17 pm: Educate Aboriginal people on safe sex…. you have got to be kidding, Dr Beaumount have you missed the point, this is not about Aboriginal adults having these dieases it is about children under the age of ten having them….. the adults don’t need educating, they need castrating……….this is an epidemic of sexual abuse, rape, inncest and steeling the innocence of young children. Is there a solution, yes, remove every child from every community.
5 Lauredhel December 19, 2007 at 7:32 pm: Is there a solution, yes, remove every child from every community.

What you’re advocating is a form of genocide. How about removing the rapists, instead of their victims? (Not as a sole solution, of course, but as interim damage control.)

Lauredhel’s last blog post..Naughty girls down under. With a bullet.
6 tigtog December 19, 2007 at 8:13 pm: Making sure that non-indigenous rapists aren’t exploiting the children would be good too.