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Sexual assault perp Kyle Payne is asking for it – feel free to respond

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kylepayneKyle Payne, fauxminist, predator, and sexual assaulter, is up for open sentencing on August 11, though he is asking for it to be postponed so that he can continue his “counselling” and solicitation of “letters of support”.

Kyle Payne was a rape crisis advocate, women’s studies student, and resident advisor at his university. While “looking after” an unconscious drunk student in his care, he undid her shirt and took a photograph and video of her breast.

He has now published a statement on his blog, closed comments on it, and emailed a bunch of feminist bloggers to alert them to it. Yeah – he’s soliciting letters of support from feminists, in an effort to influence his sentence. Mm, that’ll go well:

So, the hols are nearly over

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Lauredhel and I will have more time for the bloggings next week! I’d like to thank the marvellous Guest Hoydens who contributed posts over the last few weeks: bluemilk The prolific Fuck Politeness Helen Mindy Ricky Buchanan Why not peruse… Read More ›

“Blog your way to happiness”

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[These random happybloggers, who are definitely not Helen and Suze, come to you courtesy of manmadepants on Flickr and a Creative Commons licence.] Hoydenizens Helen and Suze both featured in an Age article this week, “Blog your way to happiness“…. Read More ›

OK, I’m off (shortly)

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I will be getting up very early in the morning to head off for holidays in accommodation with no net access. I Will Not Be Turning The Computer On Before I Go. There is net access at internet cafs and… Read More ›

oops

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Briefly, there was a post here that I meant to forward schedule to be published next week. Apologies to all on feed-readers who may have seen it and come to comment. It will return in due course.