Posts by Danielle
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
You thought "good. Let the men fight for us" and I thought "a woman blogger would never have gained this attention". (Of course Gio acknowledges this himself.) I am so deflated by this thread and others like it because briefly - briefly! - we started talking about things feminists had discussed for decades! And this stuff was in the mainstream media, even! It was exhilarating! And now, inevitably, we're back to Dudes Talking About Their Rights. 'Twas ever thus.
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Hey Dennis, could you liken my vagina to an unlocked vehicle? Because this thread has been sorely lacking in that so far.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Deborah,
Apparently Peter thought the thread lacked a little Eau de Patronising Git.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Swan,
Oh god, really? We’re going to have THIS argument now? ”If we stop on-air talkback bullies your right to have Joanne Black natter on inanely in the Listener WILL BE NEXT!” I mean, fucksake.
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it perpetuates existing power systems that suppress particular demographics at social and material levels.
I would really love it if this thread - and Graeme - could grapple with what Anne's saying, because I think it's important. If rape apologism is oppressive - and I think it's pretty clear that to a lot of us it really, really is - we seem, as a society, to be approaching the issue ass-backwards.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Right. OK, cool. Now, given that you believe that it exists, why do you think it's appropriate that those whose voices aren't privileged need to "take their turn"? Because I think we've pretty clearly established that some people are taking much longer, louder turns than others when it comes to talking about rape.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to john Drinnan,
You characterised Gio's post on the matter as "triumphalist". I don't really trust your assessments of things, given past form.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
But you might want to direct your correction to people who were referring to others as “rape enablers”, not those whom they accused.
You'll pardon me for being a little dubious about John Drinnan's characterisations of the people on Twitter who disagreed with him.
Incidentally, I asked you a direct question a few pages back, Graeme, and I'd love to have an answer.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to john Drinnan,
“rape enablers”
I believe the term is "rape apologists".
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Someone else has said this, but I do want to re-emphasise it: rape culture and victim-blaming is not a generational thing which will pass as older people die off. It is literally hundreds and hundreds of years old; you could learn about it in gender studies, if we hadn't axed a bunch of Women's Studies departments recently.