Not sure if you have seen, but an elderly woman was raped in Rochdale earlier this week and I'm just really about the way it is being described and represented on the news.
Lots of interviews with local residents describing how 'abhorrent' and 'vile' it is that an old woman was raped. As if her age makes the crime worse? It seems to imply that if she wasn't 90 years old they wouldn't be so disgusted by it; the implication being that rape is more understandable when it happens to young women? And then something else is bothering me too, some sort of implication that older women are somehow asexual or sexually off limits so sex crimes are infinitely worse when they happen to them? (The fact that rape = power rather than sex seems missing from all the reports I've seen).
It was on the radio this morning and I was muttering darkly to myself in the car and wanted to write it out.
Have I got a point?
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Rape of elderly lady in the news *potential trigger warning* title edited by MNHQ
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