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Rebecca Meredith: Men discuss my 'rape potential' *trigger warning*

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SingingSilver · 10/03/2013 00:55

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290789/Men-talk-openly-rape-potential--vile-clever-women-like-Cambridge-undergraduate-tells-shocking-abuse-male-students-elite-university.html

I posted on the original article about female debators being heckled and harassed at Glasgow University, pointing out that these kinds of incidents show that feminism is still very necessary, but I had no idea that there were men on forums chatting amongst themselves about how they would rape her.

She has written a very articulate article (and sensibly has had the Daily Mail disable ratings so the trolls won't be able to indulge themselves.)

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FastidiaBlueberry · 10/03/2013 10:07

And we still get told that we don't need feminism.

SplitHeadGirl · 10/03/2013 09:53

I shouldn't be shocked, but I am...WHAT the HELL is wrong with so many men?? Is it hatred of women, or self-hatred that drives them to attack someone smarter and more accomplished than they are? If I was a man reading that this morning, I would be so ashamed of my sex, yet most of them probably will see it as her problem or women's problem.

kim147 · 10/03/2013 09:47

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slhilly · 10/03/2013 07:00

Maybe it's time to apply a bit of pressure to GUU.

www.guu.co.uk/yourunion/board_of_management

Contact details are at that link

Common · 10/03/2013 06:22

Well done SingingSilver for pointing out the article, until these issues are directly and publicly confronted nothing will change.

Lilka · 10/03/2013 03:19

Very good article

I know which forum she's on about incidentally

I think that particular thread has been taken down, but they have several threads about Mumsnet....

yourioname · 10/03/2013 01:51

That sure is a long headline

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