Is anyone else finding it slightly annoying that the nature of the crimes committed in Rotherham are being somewhat obscured by the media referring to this as child abuse (accurate, I suppose, at least in some cases) but failing to mention, except very fleetingly, that the vast majority of the victims were girls, and were raped/sexually abused by men.
The girls were assumed (or this was the excuse given) to be engaging in consensual sex. Some were as young as 11, so this was clearly not the case. They were from 'troubled' backgrounds. There is an air of victim blaming here, as there often is when girls/women report sexual violence. But again, this is obscured when the media is vague about the gendered nature of what was happening.
Sorry if I haven't expressed myself very clearly, btw - I'm better at lurking than commenting!
What does anyone else think? Why has it been reported in this way?
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Rotherham - Obscuring gendered nature of crimes
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ShirakawaKaede · 29/08/2014 21:34
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