The blame game in Italy
Italian TV host Andrea Giambruno has been accused of victim-blaming after he appeared to say young women could avoid rape by not getting drunk.
Spoiler! He did.
(From BBC)
Giambruno, whose partner is Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, was addressing recent alleged gang rapes in Italy.
In Sicily, seven men have been accused of gang-raping a teenager, while six youths are said to have raped two young cousins in Caivano town near Naples.
Giambruno has since said his comments were taken out of context.
Giambruno raised the issue of gang rape during a live broadcast on the Rete 4 commercial channel on Monday, when - during a conversation with a newspaper editor - they condemned the rapists as wolves.
"If you go dancing you have every right to get drunk," he told viewers. "But if you avoid getting drunk and losing consciousness, maybe you would also avoid getting into specific problems because that's when you find the wolf."
Giambruno has since accused his detractors of taking his words out of context and exploiting them in bad faith. "I never said men are free to rape women who are drunk," he explained, adding that he had prefaced his remarks by stressing that it was an "abominable act carried out by beasts".
OKAY...in context then. You didn't say /not/ to rape. You didn't. Those words are not there. You said "if you avoid getting drunk". Don't get drunk. The victims did not avoid getting drunk.
You wanna pretend you don't see that as blaming the victim?
Mmmm...No.
If you forget to lock your car & someone steals it - do they get to keep it?
No? 😲 😱
What he /should/ have said? Let me try
"Anyone who chooses to commit a violent crime? Will go to jail. We must remove them from our society. We will not tolerate it or them."
There. Fixed it for you, Iggit.
Spoiler! He did.
(From BBC)
Giambruno, whose partner is Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, was addressing recent alleged gang rapes in Italy.
In Sicily, seven men have been accused of gang-raping a teenager, while six youths are said to have raped two young cousins in Caivano town near Naples.
Giambruno has since said his comments were taken out of context.
Giambruno raised the issue of gang rape during a live broadcast on the Rete 4 commercial channel on Monday, when - during a conversation with a newspaper editor - they condemned the rapists as wolves.
"If you go dancing you have every right to get drunk," he told viewers. "But if you avoid getting drunk and losing consciousness, maybe you would also avoid getting into specific problems because that's when you find the wolf."
Giambruno has since accused his detractors of taking his words out of context and exploiting them in bad faith. "I never said men are free to rape women who are drunk," he explained, adding that he had prefaced his remarks by stressing that it was an "abominable act carried out by beasts".
OKAY...in context then. You didn't say /not/ to rape. You didn't. Those words are not there. You said "if you avoid getting drunk". Don't get drunk. The victims did not avoid getting drunk.
You wanna pretend you don't see that as blaming the victim?
Mmmm...No.
If you forget to lock your car & someone steals it - do they get to keep it?
No? 😲 😱
What he /should/ have said? Let me try
"Anyone who chooses to commit a violent crime? Will go to jail. We must remove them from our society. We will not tolerate it or them."
There. Fixed it for you, Iggit.