British woman 'arrested in Dubai after reporting rape'

[gluteustothemaximus]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38013351

Just don't even know what to say to this

[Tropezienne]

I wasn't talking to you specifically alsender. I do think that holiday makers should boycott this place.

Let their airlines and hotel rooms stay empty until they join the 21st century.

[Tropezienne]

I mean slender

[user1471451684]

Appalling that this happened, legally a backwards country. However I don't understand why she reported it. She must have watched the news in the past to know what Dubai is like!

[Xenophile]

But as none of that has been said or suggested in those terms slender, you have no point. You're merely doing what you always do and ascribing views to people that they patently don't hold and then becoming more and more incoherent in defending your views.

You have said that "prominent posters" on this board have said things they haven't said and you have said it in order to continue your vexatious trolling of women who post here. Purely because they have repeatedly asked you to challenge your rape apologist views which has made you angry and defensive. You have now mistakenly got the idea that women are blaming this woman for being raped whereas what they were actually doing was wondering why she felt she would have had a sympathetic hearing in the country she was raped in.

That you can't tell the difference says an incredible amount about how little you understand.

[TheExecutionerMortificado]

"For the intentionally hard of thinking,"

Nice.

[TheVermiciousKnid]

Yes, very nice. That sort of opening line makes me skip the post. Doubt I've missed much.

[slenderisthenight]

VestalVirgin Thu 17-Nov-16 18:20:35
This is one of the situations where I feel tempted to victim-blame. I mean, really, how did she expect to get a rapist arrested in Dubai?

Of course, I do blame the government. But since fighting against governments is hard and has little likelihood of success, I just wish British women (and all other women who don't have to live there) were sensible and wouldn't go to Dubai for holidays.

LassWiTheDelicateAir Thu 17-Nov-16 21:49:49
I'm with Vestal on this. Of all the places one can go on holiday to why choose this one?

[PoochSmooch]

Is that in case we couldn't scroll back and read for ourselves, slender?

I mean, I'm intentionally hard of thinking and all, but I can operate a mouse and my own eyeballs.

[slenderisthenight]

Interestingly enough, the only place I've ever come across the phrase 'hard of thinking' (and a lot more besides) was on the feminist board! So I think you can cope and if you will play dumb...

Dodge, evade and snipe all you like - the view was never going to welcomed but it needed to be said. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling depressed by the truly dire double standards here at times. No one gets to make the rules up in the first place, never mind decide which ones can be broken because, for some reason, it won't count as rape apology (it did).

Anyway, better things to do on a weekend night. Be sure to enjoy having the last word

[KindDogsTail]

LassWiTheDelicateAir Thu 17-Nov-16 21:49:49
I'm with Vestal on this. Of all the places one can go on holiday to why choose this one?

I really think it is painted as a glamorous and super modern place to go, and also a place of opportunity. I don't think all people are necessarily knowledgeable about its laws as a consequence. It is a stop over place for many air routes now too - a warning should come with the plane tickets.

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[TheExecutionerMortificado]

Just don't let the mouse pperate your eyeballs, pooch

[PoochSmooch]

It's hard when you're as dumb as I am, mortificado. Like rubbing your tummy and patting your head.

[LassWiTheDelicateAir]

LassWiTheDelicateAir Thu 17-Nov-16 21:49:49
I'm with Vestal on this. Of all the places one can go on holiday to why choose this one?

I really think it is painted as a glamorous and super modern place to go, and also a place of opportunity. I don't think all people are necessarily knowledgeable about its laws as a consequence. It is a stop over place for many air routes now too - a warning should come with the plane tickets

Okay, I'm getting dragged into this. I suppose I'm one of the "regular posters" (although I'm frequently at odds with the concensus) I frequently don't agree with VV although I don't think either of us have ever said anything along the lines of "she was asking for doing x,y z". On the contrary I've spent all my adult life doing things which rape apologists might tut at.

I concede that if you were new you might put the spin being put on it but,, and I am sure I am speaking for VV, it was the country we were criticising not the person. Lord knows I'm majorly into posh shops and posh hotels but Dubai will never feature on my wish list.

[KindDogsTail]

Dubai will never feature on my wish list
Nor mine, but unfortunately I think it may be pretty high on lots of people's wish list, without them realising at all that underneath it all it is utterly primitive and pretty savage.