This is Katie Porter talking, so I think this is legit.
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Yup, legit. And then some.
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The Andy Orchard thing is big news in my world at the moment. His specialisation is just far enough from mine that I wasnât aware of him but I hear from many people that this was all an open secret very much like the Weinstein thing in Hollywood.
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This has been ongoing news in Oxford for a few years now, and has merged with the acceptance of transphobia from those running the colleges. Some people canât accept that what was acceptable 50 years ago shouldnât have been.
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They want to equivocate between âacceptableâ as in you could get away with it and âacceptableâ as in morally alright. It was wrong then, and they knew it was wrong. They just never thought the people they were abusing would have the power to call them out.
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Great, a new way to drug women:
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âSpiking by needleâ?
Thatâs a kind of round about way of saying âsneaking up on someone with a syringe full of poisonâ. Itâs the stuff horror movies are made of.
I know that every time an injustice against women or any minority comes up someone says, âImagine this was happening to men/white people/straight peopleâ and that gets a little tiresome. But Iâm imagining if someone was using this tactic to commit any crime other than sexual violence. Like if people were doing this to rob people at the grocery store. Thereâd be a nationwide task force tracking them down like they were serial killers, even if the victims were women.
Somehow rape ameliorates the crime of poisoning someone. It makes you less culpable. Jesus Christ.
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If the person committing the crime isnât caught, the victim might never know what was injected. Definitely horrifyingâŚ
ETA: Can only hope that sentences like the one in the case above would be a deterrent.
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Remember that scene in, Iâm pretty sure it was A Time to Kill, where the lawyer describes the whole horrific rape of the young girl and then says, ânow imagine she was white.â Everyone in the jury box gasps.
When I read these stories I canât help imagining the courtroom scene if someone did the same thing, having the court envision the scenario some young woman lived through, being drugged and possibly sexually penetrated, then says, ânow imagine it was a man.â
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You are correct; It was a Time to Kill and that was the second best scene in the film.
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It also talks about some positive work being done primarily by women trying to help those trafficked for sex work.
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Is it just me or is this a really boneheaded approach to solving the problem of gender bias in childrenâs toys?
It seems to me that designating a specific section of a toy store as âgender neutralâ just sends the message that any toy OUTSIDE that section is NOT gender neutral. Sorry, Sally! That toy toolbelt is in the âboysâ section, not appropriate for you! Jason, what are you doing with that Barbie? Get over here and play with the officially non-feminized dolls!
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Trucks here. Even the Barbie car.
Dolls here. Even GI Joe.
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But⌠in which section do you find the Transformers?
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