James Whale suspended over rape victim interview

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Good! Vile man.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/aug/03/talkradios-james-whale-suspended-over-victim-interview

I don't often say this but he should be sacked for that vile display. It was atrocious. But unsurprising at the the same time because we all know men just like him.

They should definitely sack him. Absolutely appalling behaviour. That poor woman.

What a surprise. I always knew he was a fucking creep. You could just see it oozing off him.

Well done Nichi Hodgson, first for speaking out about her assault and second for writing up the hideous reception her disclosures received

Change happens when we refuse to be shamed by our own victimisation

I always knew he was a misogynist after hearing the way he's spoken to other women. This just proves what a repulsive little stain he really is.

He's been a misogynist arse since at least the late 1980s.

She had complained about the interview but nothing happened until she wrote that article. The manager of their complaint department should be suspended as well.

Excellent news. I read her article earlier today and felt sick for her twice over - for having experienced such a disgusting attack, and then being ridiculed by a misogynist waste of space like James Whale. I hope it's the end of his career

Definitely. They're so smug they think they can get away with anything when it comes to women. If he'd treated a man like she was treated, he'd be nursing a broken nose by now.

Good. The video is damning.

I'm astonished he still has a career. He was controversial - to put it mildly - when he came to talk at our union and that was way back in the dark ages!

i think he thinks its still back in the 80`s when you could do such things and it was considered edgy. stupid ........er

That's gross. The bit where he LAUGHS at the phrase "orally raped" is almost beyond belief. I hope this ends his career. It fucking should do.

I just read Nichi's excellent piece and I'm outraged.

Whale should be sacked. He's a loathsome slimeball. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.

As for his 'men are afraid to flirt' shtick: whenever I hear a man say this I think, yeah because you're afraid women will report you for what you've done in the past.

The entitlement they feel they have to our bodies is deeply ingrained VaggieMight

Even the more decent guys I know were complaining about the MeToo movement and saying it's gone too far. I asked them if they approved of men ignoring our boundaries, and they got massively defensive.

Made me feel sad, scared and disappointed that this is the world my daughters and granddaughter have to grow up in.

Amazing how some men are able to figure out how to flirt without ending up with charges filed against them, isn't it? Almost as if it isn't that hard after all if you're a decent human being, but terribly inconvenient for predators when the prey start complaining.

Whale deserves to be sacked, not just suspended.

I've seen a couple of CCTV videos recently, where women have turned down flirtatious men and got hit for it.

We can't win. We're either sluts or frigid - there doesn't seem to be a middle ground. When will they start to see us as human beings instead of prey?

He's sick. Feel very down about men right now - what will all the TRA bullshit and girls in Pakistan being bombed out of an education, men punching women on the streets, men laughing at women being raped...

I actually believe about 70% of them are just repellant and hateful to and about women. My DH thinks I'm wrong - he says it's more like 90%.

I'm making it my purpose to raise my sons to see and treat women as human beings. Nothing more nothing less. And my girls to understand their worth as human beings. It's small. But if my sons ended up like this absolute monstrosity of a man, I will have failed as their parent.

My grandson's 15 TheCountryGirl and has spent his life predominantly surrounded by females. He's a loving and thoughtful boy, but due to the prevalence of toxic masculinity he's had a horrific time at school with the other boys. It's so bloody depressing.

It's so depressing Gerbil. I work with disadvantaged women and their families - one had a young son of 16 who had been bullied out of school. He was so sensitive and so kind. The bullies left him with a fear of boys and men. He would only work with me because I was a woman.

Your grandson sounds wonderful, Gerbil. Long may he stay loving and thoughtful. We need him.

We do indeed. My brother seems to think that he's superior to myself and my sisters. Unfortunately, it's down to my mother treating him as if he was - she still does. His attitude to women is absolutely dreadful.

My brother is the same Agerbil. He's a raging misogynist. I don't have a relationship with him anymore because I've been on the end of his verbal abuse once too often. I blame my parents hugely because they treated him like a little prince all his life and he was allowed to treat his2 sisters like shit with no consequences. I think many women have similar stories