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Because it was done by someone who is supposed to protect women. Why is that hard to understand?
Exactly. And she was doing everything we are told to do to keep ourselves safe.
It exposed the fact that none of that makes a blind bit of difference and it's frightening.
The thing is, even if by some miracle he'd chosen a woman who instantly refused to comply... this was planned. He'd equipped himself. All saving Sarah Everard would have achieved was a different victim. And while that would be everything in the world to her poor family, boyfriend, and friends, it would just have meant that a different set of loved ones were in hell tonight.
Statistically, there are women reading this thread who will have partners, or sons, who have raped or will rape someone. It's a dead cert. And those rapists are scaffolded in it by the society we all create, or allow, or turn a blind eye to. We can't believe they do it - but someone's partners, sons, and brothers are. Rapists aren't hatched in eggs before dwelling beneath a stone.
As for the squawks that, "It's less than 1% of men!" well, not quite, sweetie. This article discusses prevalence, when anonymous self reported surveys are done, where between 4% and 16% of male university students will freely confess to having raped someone, just as long as the act is described, and not called rape (almost all simultaneously claim never to have raped anyone). Several have raped several women. And the belief is that for these men to admit to what they have done - the acts - is an understatement of true prevalence. Of course that still means most men don't, won't, and have not. But taking the most hopeful of estimates, 1 in 25 have raped someone while at university. Nice thought.
We know that a girl reports a rape happening on school premises every single day of the school year in the UK. That's the girls who even report it. And that isn't counting the lesser forms of sexual assault. And yet we live in a time where girls are having their legally-required single sex toilets removed in favour of unisex.
Rape is very, very common. And men like Wayne Cozens know it. Most rapists aren't even charged - fewer than 2% of rapes reported in this country - again REPORTED, when we know most never are - see charges. Rape has effectively been decriminalised. And then something like this happens, and people are amazed. Why? Why are you amazed? Women do not matter in this country in the year 2021. Making rape threats to women with whom you disagree is acceptable now. Ask JK Rowling or Rosie Duffield. That's acceptable, and so is the most extreme, violent and degrading pornography - which teenage boys watch on their smartphones, with nobody around to challenge it other than their peers. A generation are growing up thinking it's normal to choke women and slap them during sex. That anal is fabulous for all sides, prostate and smaller frame or not. This is sex education done in 2021. And we are surprised by the rising misogyny, and sexual violence. Really?
This is the most misogynist time I can remember, and my mother - who was a Women's Movement activist in the 1970s, and started working before the Equal Pay Act - says the same. What use are rights on paper, when kids are being saturated in porn and sexism before they even start secondary school? When women are being referred to in the fucking Lancet, of all places, as "bodies with vaginas"? We are being turned into objects with genitals. And some women seem fine with that, too.