That we expect this kind of tripe from The Mirror does not make it ok. On average, two women every week are murdered in domestic violence homicides in England and Wales. Domestic violence will affect 1 in 4 women in the UK at some point in their life. It is a deadly serious and widespread...
The Mercury’s front page yesterday called one of Tasmania’s worst cases of child sexual abuse a “sex scandal”. Why? Because a powerful white man (former state MP Terry Martin) was found guilty of raping the 12 year old and taking pornographic images of her. As a 12 year old girl and ward of the state,...
So this feels very weird, asking for money for a project I wish didn’t have to exist. But FixedIt just keeps getting bigger, not smaller. Too many headlines go by that I don’t have time to fix because I have to put paid work first. But it needs to get bigger. It needs to be...
Yes, you can rape a woman if she is a sex worker. Because she is a woman and a person before she is her job. Dehumanising rape victims is abhorrent. Mohammad and Khalid Alibassi raped three women. Their crimes are not diminished by the profession of their victims. The ABC should know better, but yet...
The horrific details of Michael Cardamone’s crimes against Karen Chetcuti-Verbunt might be tempting to sensationalise, but it should only take a moment to remember that she was a real person not a meaningless cypher from a cheap thriller. It’s beyond imaging what her family and friends have had to live through but we can make...
The Daily Telegraph is just one of many publications that refer to Paul Lambert’s vicious assault and attempted murder of Angela Jay as the “Tinder stabbing”. Lambert broke into Angela Jay’s home, waited for her to come in, then he stabbed her repeatedly and soaked her in petrol. Police believe he intended to rape her,...
This one from New Zealand, where a violent man tried to kill a woman, his ex-partner, and put the lives of her two children in serious danger. He’s an “arsonist” apparently. Under New Zealand law, arson is defined as damage to property. It’s considered more serious when the property damage could endanger human lives, but...
This headline was from the Newcastle Herald in May 2016. The man accused of murdering Amanda Carter was completely erased from the headline, but her choices were the subject of it. I held on to this until after the trial was over. Not because the headline couldn’t have been fixed at the time – it...
Ok, so it is the Daily Mail, but even so, what kind of person thinks years of sexual abuse can be described as “a sexual relationship”? The child was 15 years old when it started, she was an adult, his teacher and in a parental role, it’s not “a sexual relationship” it’s rape, it’s child...
Another report on an alleged vicious domestic violence attack, another invisible man. The North West Star reported on a man who allegedly attacked a woman in public, the article quoted police as saying the attack was the subject of a domestic violence investigation. But again, the attacker didn’t rate a mention in the headline, nor...