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Mumsnet, will you tell the woman that Ched Evans raped, that We Believe Her? And call upon the FA to kick sexism out of football?

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BasilFoulEggs · 29/04/2012 23:13

Dear Mumsnet
As you are no doubt aware, there has been the most extraordinary hate campaign waged this week by some football fans, against a rape victim in the wake of the Ched Evans Guilty Verdict.

The jist of the hatespeak, has been that a drunk woman has no right to expect the basic human right of not having her body penetrated without her active participation in that sexual act, or even her passive consent. Presumably because men (or at least footballers and their friends) have the right to penetrate women who are incapable of consent. And that if a man rapes you, it is because you are a slut, a slag and all the other hate-speak words used to de-humanise women and make it easier for people not to empathise with us when we are abused.

This week has seen the really ugly spectacle, of a bunch of men asserting their right to rape women, handmaidens supporting that right and both of them sending out a clear warning to all other rape victims, to know what to expect if they dare to pursue justice if they are raped.

If there had been a similar outpouring of hatred against any other historically oppressed group, the rest of the media would have been tearing their hair out analysing why some men hated this group so much, where the hatred came from, why it existed, what could be done about it; but ironically apart from the Daily Fail, there has been very little comment in response to the Twitter hate-campaign. If Twitter had buzzed with indignation at the jailing of the man who posted hate-speak about Fabrice Muamba, I?ve no doubt that the FA would have tracked down the posters and banned them from football matches. Because they?re busy kicking racism out of football. Sexism, though, is fine. They can give a bloody award to a convicted rapist, while their supporters conduct what must be a terrifying hate campaign against his teenage victim? right now, football fans don?t look all that much better than the Taliban, do they?

Mumsnet, will you use the voice you have against this horrible hate campaign? Will you tell the woman that Ched Evans raped, that We Believe Her? Will you ask the FA to state publicly, that they too, believe her and that in future, they will work as hard to kick sexism out of football, as they do to kick racism out?

Thank You.

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jaquelinehyde · 29/04/2012 23:23

Well said, come on MN make a stand.

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EightiesChick · 29/04/2012 23:25

Yes, I agree.

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picc · 29/04/2012 23:25

yes. agree.
Well said, Basil.

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ItsNotUnusualToBe · 29/04/2012 23:25

I believe her.

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Codandchops · 29/04/2012 23:28

I Believe Her.

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hermionestranger · 29/04/2012 23:30

I believe her.

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Codandchops · 29/04/2012 23:35

Very well said OP.

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Arseface · 29/04/2012 23:36

I believe her and she's not a slut.

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BrightnessFalls · 29/04/2012 23:37

I beleive her.

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TheHonMrsP · 29/04/2012 23:37

We believe you

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Jux · 29/04/2012 23:48

Ibelieve her.

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chipmonkey · 29/04/2012 23:49

I believe her.

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serotoninbutterfly · 29/04/2012 23:49

I believe you

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ohgawd · 29/04/2012 23:50

I believe you.xxx

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NunTheWiser · 29/04/2012 23:50

I believe you.

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Moodykat · 29/04/2012 23:52

I believe you.

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defineme · 29/04/2012 23:52

I believe her.

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ArtexMonkey · 29/04/2012 23:56

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MyDogShitsShoes · 29/04/2012 23:58

I believe her.

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KeemaNaanAndCurryOn · 29/04/2012 23:59

I believe her.

The FA should be ashamed of itself. A convicted rapist should have no place in football.

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Empusa · 30/04/2012 00:00

I believe her.

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ChaosTrulyReigns · 30/04/2012 00:03

I believe her.

Thank you Basil for this thread.

It is time that the despicable and throwaway treatment of women by footballers is halted.

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FannyFifer · 30/04/2012 00:12

I believe her, I am absolutely disgusted by what has went on and the comments that have been made about this poor girl.

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MordecaiAndTheRigbys · 30/04/2012 00:14

I believe her.

Thank you for this thread.

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Yeahthatsnotgonnahappen · 30/04/2012 00:19

I believe her.

I was shocked and disgusted that her name had been released and spent my journey to work yelling at the radio at their lack of outrage and horror that this is the society we live in. To have gone through the rape itself, to have the courage and strength of will to make it through a court case, only to be the victim of the most hateful abuse afterwards, must be soul destroying. I believe her. And hope that she has surrounded herself with people who love her and let her know that this hatefulness is nothing to do with her, but a hateful subgroup of society who we should all be ashamed off.

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