Another in the ongoing media effort to erase male perpetrators from public consciousness, The Brussels Times reports that this girl and her father were “killed by a bullet”. I checked. Several times. Difficult as it might be to believe, this is not a satirical site. 1800 RESPECT Sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling and...
No, you wretched gobshites, it’s not a “father-daughter”relationship when an adult rapes a child. But, when even the judge struggles with that concept, it’s not surprising the reporters can’t grasp it. 1800 RESPECT Sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling and support. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Ph: 1800 737 732 www.1800respect.org.au...
From The Independent, you’d think reading this headline that some tragic accident killed this man and his children. You’d also think there were no other tragic accidental deaths involved. Unless you bothered to read down to the middle of the article, then you’d discover “Megan Short, their mother, was also dead.” A few more paragraphs...
No, Border Mail, a man convicted of intimidation and assault is not the victim. He gets no sympathy. His ADF hopes were not shot down in court, they were shot down when he made the choice to be violently jealous and break things to intimidate a woman. 1800 RESPECT Sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling...
From AAP, republished without change by Channel 9 and Yahoo, COME ON! This isn’t difficult. If they were victims, then by definition, it was not sex. Vincent Ryan has been convicted of abuse and has admitted to it, there is no doubt about the facts. Abuse is not sex. Rape is not sex. This is not ok. 1800 RESPECT...
Why, WHY, would you describe a man as the “life of the party” after he admitted to raping and murdering a child? The Age article reports that the murderer was with the child’s mother before he committed these horrific crimes, and led with a quote from her that plays into the “but he’s such a nice...
This one just never ends. Alleged rape of a teenager is not sex, it’s rape. And human trafficking is not an “incident”, it’s a crime. Language matters, as both TheRoot and The Washington Post should know. 1800 RESPECT Sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling and support. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week....
SBS asked me to write about why I do the FixedIt thing. So I wrote this about the media, the judiciary and how their insidious misogyny reinforces the idea that women are responsible for the violence men enact against them. 1800 RESPECT Sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling and support. 24 hours a day, 7 days a...
Knowing what words mean and how to use them should be a fairly basic requirement for editors and journalists. You would think. You would be wrong. Sex = acts between one or more people, where everyone involved is able to, and does, give full consent. Rape, abuse, assault = acts between one or more people...
I was privileged to speak at ANU this week for their sex and consent week. Trigger Warnings Before we start I just want to talk for a moment about trigger warnings. I flew up from Melbourne yesterday and the stewards did the safety lessons they always do on planes. I don’t listen any more, I’ve...