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By: skepticlawyer » Stereotypes and victims of crime

skepticlawyer » Stereotypes and victims of crime — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:01:32 +0000

[...] to take defensive action themselves to not get themselves raped, or get themselves robbed, makes the perpetrator invisible and takes all the light and heat off the people doing the [...]

By: Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony » Blog Archive » May I take this opportunity to apologise to the entire expat Indian community?

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:40:13 +0000

[...] to take defensive action themselves to not get themselves raped, or get themselves robbed, makes the perpetrator invisible and takes all the light and heat off the people doing the [...]

By: Rebekka

Rebekka — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:25:57 +0000

There was an article in the Herald Sun this morning that makes me think the MSM is not remotely close to getting an idea about anything – http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24362908-2862,00.html

First, calling a serial offender a “pest”? What’s with that? A pest is something slightly annoying, not someone who rapes children.

Secondly, “The accused was alleged to have seduced the girl in the late 1990s, when he was 39 and she was 15. ”

SEDUCED??? He RAPED her, allegedly, and the Herald Sun describes it as “seduction”?

*headdesk*

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:56:50 +0000

They perhaps put it so straight because he’s been convicted. I like the Alleged Man idea Zoe.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:42:26 +0000

I did wonder if that was why they felt able to put it in such straight terms. I’d like to think not, but…

By: Lauredhel

Lauredhel — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:40:01 +0000

And it was SO IMPORTANT that we know he was Bangladeshi, right? *headdesk*

By: Zoe

Zoe — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:38:06 +0000

I like Invisible Man too, but there’s an element of fantasy or make-believe in the word “Invisible” that we could get around by saying an Alleged Man. That shifts the point of view from being about our perception of the man to the man and what he does.

“An Alleged man was charged yesterday with …”

By: Mindy

Mindy — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:08:44 +0000

I noticed today that the SMH has a quite explicit headline in its online page “Sydney Cabbie guilty of rape” and in the article it says

A Sydney taxi driver has been found guilty of raping a young female passenger. Bangladeshi student MD Kowser Ali, 22, was convicted by a NSW District Court jury today of raping the 18-year-old woman

So, it would seem that the MSM is finally getting the idea.

By: The Amazing Kim

The Amazing Kim — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:34:56 +0000

I think for the audience it was intended (those who wouldn’t see the problem in the article until it was pointed out) humour is the best way to promote feminist ideas. It’s important we can get out message out in a variety of ways and jokes not only work by bringing people’s guard down, but to help combat the widespread image of the haranguing dour feminist.

For the reasons Pavlov’s Cat states, I like elves or toasters or north atlantic salmon or whatever, and Su’s reminded me why I like comedians like Sue-Ann Post or Julia Morris so much – the humour doesn’t demean or belittle the subject, but is the spoonful of sugar to the medicine.

By: Kaethe

Kaethe — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:15:20 +0000

I agree with others that “elves” is discordant with the intention of stressing that a rapist did the raping.

An as-yet-unidentified-by-age-or-hobby rapist raped a 30-year-old jogger Monday night after the rapist pulled her into a wooded area of Rock Creek Park just south of Kensington, marking the second time in the last week a Montgomery County sexual assaulter has taken a Montgomery County woman into woods and sexually assaulted her, police said.

How’s that work?