Posts by Miche Campbell
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Dastardly Bounder,
I have a fifteen-year-old daughter. Words have failed me completely.
When I told her this morning about the latest developments my very smart, very fair-minded, very socially-aware girl's reply was "Fuck the police."
How the fuck is ANY girl or woman who has been raped supposed to have ANY faith in the police to do their goddamn job now? It's not as if getting rape victims to make a complaint is a walk in the park in the first place. The damage from this entire debacle is incalculable.
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Four complaints.
Four. Complaints.
When they said they were waiting on one so they could go ahead and until then would effectively just sit on their hands.
Four.
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This is all making me sick to my stomach, and I can't help but get the feeling much worse is going to be uncovered during the investigation.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Martin Brown,
And a bloody weaksauce apology it was, too.
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And they're just talking on National Radio about a second group related to this one.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Marcus Turner,
I didn't know what a Mazengarb Event was either, so I looked it up on Google.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Kumara Republic,
What could Garth McVicar's lot possibly say that would add to the conversation rather than detracting?
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Russell Brown,
It's troubling, yes, but entirely expected. There is an unspoken rule in society that women are the keepers of public morality, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that some of the girls involved, as well as their friends, see it as Their Job (however subconsciously) to enforce societal norms about what happened.
In other words, to blame the victims and protect the rapists.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to stephen clover,
Well, when actually does group sex become rape? If for example, a young woman of legal age consents to get grossly intoxicated with a bunch of young men and participate in group sex with them, then gets grossly intoxicated – does her consent status revert to non-consensual?
If she was intoxicated when the sex acts took place, then yes, it does. If a person is incapable of saying "no," then they're also incapable of saying "yes."
It's also possible that one or more of the people involved in the "group sex" may change their mind at some stage of the proceedings. Intoxication also makes that impossible.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Russell Brown,
I made a conscious choice in the original post, to call rape, rape.
And I, for one, thank you for it.