Channel 9 News reported that a man was jailed for 5 years after being convicted of raping a woman. Despite what you read in Channel 9’s headline, he raped a WOMAN, not the barracks.
This is such a tired old trope. If you can’t erase the perpetrator, erase the victim. Laneway Rapist. Tinder Rapist. Wheelie Bin Murder. There’s so many of them. It’s insidious and we should be well past the need to protect violent men from the reality of their crimes. Men’s violence against women is rampant. Research released by ANROWS this week shows the stats too many people were claiming as fact are woefully understating the prevalence of sexual violence.
Just over half the women who were aged between 24 and 30 in 2019 had experienced sexual violence at some point in their life.
Violent men have sexually assaulted more than half our promising young women and we’re still hiding rapists behind buildings.
Just. Stop.
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