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Respect
I saw this tweet at some point during the weekend, and Beatidude and I had a polite exchange of tweets over it. @rphillips2001 How do you propose that we convince abortion rights supporters to respect...
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Three women on the Rochdale rapists
Arrested for being a public nuisance outside a takeaway shop, the 15-year-old blamed her behaviour – screaming and bashing the counter – on the systemic abuse she had suffered at the hands of two men...
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Assange, rape, and Ecuador
This is heroism: PFC Bradley Manning, a 24-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of releasing the Collateral Murder video, that shows the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters...
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Rape is not unspeakable
Yesterday, Saturday 7th July, Edinburgh held its second Slutwalk. The Slutwalk, if you didn’t know, was inspired by comments a Canadian policeman made to a group of college students last year,...
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Julian Assange plays pity card for Ecuador
On 18th August 2010, Julian Assange applied for a residence permit to live and work in Sweden, hoping to create a base for Wikileaks there, because of the country’s laws protecting whistle-blowers....
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On a point of principle
Because 6% of college-aged men, slightly over 1 in 20, will admit to raping someone in anonymous surveys, as long as the word “rape” isn’t used in the description of the act—and that’s the conservative...
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Sense of entitlement
This post has trigger warnings. It’s mostly about rape. I’ve never been raped. Like most women who haven’t been raped, I do have a bunch of near-miss stories, starting from when I was six or seven and...
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Naomi Wolf says sorry… sort of
Consistently, since her original “Dear Interpol” letter in the Huffington Post in December 2010, Naomi Wolf has been the most high-profile self-identified feminist to argue that Assange did not rape or...
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How did Jimmy Savile get away with it?
People have been asking, how did Jimmy Savile get away with rape and sexual abuse, hundreds of victims, for so long? Rape culture. This cartoon in the Daily Mail today shows how Savile did it. His...
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Rape on Ebay
The company that produces “Keep Calm And Hit Her” t-shirts that were available on Amazon til this morning claims they were computer-generated, are not actually for sale, and have now been removed. The...
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Irony, appreciated
On 8th August, PZ Myers published an email from a woman he knows and trusts (but who had asked Myers not to name her) at his blog. The email said that a well-known figure in the American skeptics...
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Safe sex and Julian Assange
They fell asleep and she woke up by his penetrating her. She immediately asked if he was wearing anything. He answered: “You.” She said: “You better not have HIV.” He said: “Of course not.” 12th July...
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Nigel Evans: accused
Nigel Evans is a conservative and a Conservative. He’s been a Conservative politician since 1985, when he was elected a councillor for West Glamorgan (the former administrative county in Wales that is...
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Ruining a career
In December 2012, an 18-year-old athlete who belonged to the Aldershot, Farnham, and District Athletic club orally raped a 12-year-old girl. The athlete’s name is Adam Hulin. You can see how promising...
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Cyril Smith and Rochdale
In 1962, when Cambridge House in Rochdale was opened to give young men a clean safe place to stay, Cyril Smith was 34, already an important man in the local community, and he seems to have regarded it...
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Not All M&Ms Are Poisoned
I wrote some time ago about the massive sense of entitlement that men have that lies behind every rape story I ever heard. Around 7pm on Tuesday 27th May, two young girls of the Dalit caste (the...
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Assange: Not in jail
Yesterday, Channel 4 News ran an anniversary programme, of sorts: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – hiding for two years in the Ecuadorian embassy – is in “a prison cell with internet access” and...
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Thoughts about “A letter to”
The Guardian has been doing a series of anonymous articles, subtitled The letter you always wanted to write. No one is named in any of the letters. The letter published today is from a man in his early...
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Julian Assange evading justice
The statute of limitations for the crimes that Julian Assange is evading justice for in Knightsbridge, will expire this August. Swedish prosecutors will therefore travel to London to carry out the...
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Unnecessary Legislation: the Coronavirus Bill
This was first posted on Facebook on 23rd March 2020, with support from my Ko-Fi network. Look, imagine an afternoon when you settle down to listen to Parliamentary debate for eight hours (with breaks...
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