IMF head Strauss-Khan charged with sexual assault, attempted rape and imprisonment of hotel maid in New York

[darleneoconnor]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13402845

Can these sroties ever be reported without a discussion of whether the woman is lying or provoked the man?

It's like Julian Assange all over again.

There was a french man being interviewed about it on News 24 and you could sense a different attitude between him and the British newsreader, Nicholas Owen. The french man was emphasising how bad a crime it was, whereas the newsreader seemed to be fishing for some 'rape myths'.

We'll see how this one pans out.

The picture that speaks a thousand words is here

Gosh. First glance I thought he might have friends in the White House. On closer inspection it would appear that perhaps the opposite is true. Barack looks rather appalled.

Molly
It's Barack's restraining hand that speaks volumes!

Looks like he's going for the "she wanted it" defence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13667064

"Defence lawyer Ben Brafman said outside court after the brief hearing: "It will be clear that there was no element of forcible compulsion in this case whatsoever. "

Yes! Astonishingly, they're going for consent. Very original. Many's the time I get down and dirty cleaning other people's shit off the toilet pan to get me hot hot hot for luurrve. Dp only has to see me with a bottle of toilet duck in my hand...Does anyone know how the hotel cleaners demo was organised? Feminists or union? or what?

Very impressed by the demo outside. Good for them!

Good for the union.

DSK is so magnetically attractive that clearly women from all backgrounds have only to catch a glimpse and they run up to him, begging, just begging, to be allowed to suck his cock.

After all, there can't be any other explanation for the number of his conquests, can there?

I can barely contain my excitement! The demo was organised by the Hotel Workers Union! A union actually representing women workers in a sexual violence case, not organising 'sex workers'. No coincidence that the woman he attacked had the confidence to report him, even though women in those jobs are vulnerable to harrassment and assault, their union recognises that. In USA, workers are not often unionised; that one is exceptional in having about 75%.