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[stolenokisses]

In the next few days I am hoping to set up an PROPER BLOG, in which I intend to record my responses to reportage on rape and the utterly skewed interpretations I often find inherent. Cheerful reading huh? I will probably not have such a narrow focus as this, but to start with this will be what I use it for, as I am planning on a small campaign

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[burnyourbones]

Hear hear! Anyone would think from the way they get reported no-one was actually comitting these rapes -- the agent is ellided by use of the passive voice: "women were raped" not "men raped women". The crime conference I went to had an interesting bit about how the grammar in news reporting obscures the responsibility of the criminal.

No worries about toes being trodden on- like you I will be using them to kick the metro in the bum.

In other news I am for totes pimping this on twitter.

[stolenokisses]

I am just waiting to see the headline "FESTIVAL WOMAN CRIES RAPE!" and find out from the right wing press that actually these women were probably making it all up anyway, so whatevs.

[necropalice]

Hmm, now that you mention it

[karaadora]

Those campsite problems are the same ones that Reading have, run by the same organisation and with much of the same results (a few rapes, a lot more fire and violence). It's got slightly better each year, but it's got a long way to go. Festival Republic should start looking at how they run festivals before lecturing women about staying safe.

[stolenokisses]

It's like, everyone's amazed rapes happened because it's a middle-class white festival. It's outrageous.

Yes, this is such a frustrating attitude and just goes to show why so many people disregard so many accusations of rape. The majority of rape cases aren't actually the evil stranger in the deserted alleyway scenario, and are perpetrated in a supposedly "safe" environment by someone the victim knows. Rape can and does happen anywhere and everywhere.

Pretty appalling to hear of your experience about the lax attitude taken to creating a safe atmosphere. It's even more of a fucking cheek to call out the women for their behaviour. How dare they maybe get a bit drunk and be out and about outdoors at a FUCKING FESTIVAL?! Heavens!

[necropalice]

Rape can and does happen anywhere and everywhere.

Exactly why articles like this are so important. Don't let your defences down at a festival? NEVER let them down, as men just can't help themselves, the tykes. Is that the actual message? Fucking mental.

[celentari]

THANK YOU! I thought all this stuff about the Latitude attacks in a far less coherent way and was really cross. You don't see it in articles where kids get attacked. "Children at the event were warned against taking sweets from strangers." No, it's all 'SICK SEX BEAST MONSTER!'

[embitteredpoet]

I thought this was a very good sentence:
'There are few crimes where the victim is so often given the blame for it ever occuring, but with rape this happens time and again'

[stolenokisses]

That's interesting! I've seen a bunch of those sort of things up in the interview rooms in the Probation Office where I work, but never out and about anywhere. Totes do message me if you see one.

There's a course that Probation makes domestic violence offenders take which is supposed to address their attitudes and thinking patterns about violence towards partners/women,etc. Don't know how successful it is, but I definitely think it's a good thing to be doing, if only sometimes feeling a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted in the victim's eyes perhaps.