Mridul Wadhwa

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thecritic.co.uk/unclean/

"Feminist women were, therefore, keen to hear what would be said at this latest talk before women’s sector professionals working with victims and survivors of sexual and domestic abuse.

I hadn’t expected the content to be so blatantly aggressive towards the decades of work of feminist women in the field of male violence against women. After a wandering preamble about intersectionality, Wadhwa announced that Rape Crisis history was unclean."

Hmm. Yes. Caste.

@Jaysmith71

Can't help seeing the religious dimension to all this talk of cleaning and purifying, particularly in a Hindu context.

Indeed. For anyone not aware, MW’s father is/was Hindu and Hinduism is not known for its women’s rights (happy to be corrected on that).

Seeing as MW was a boy, presumably looking to his father as a role model, this all fits.

@TheWeeDonkey

Institutions never seem to learn anything, this is what makes me so angry.

And, as someone else said either up thread or on another thread, MW is hiding in plain sight.

This could have been said about any high level abuser from Saville to Bill Cosby to what happened in the Catholic Church, grooming gangs, county lines etc etc etc.

They tell you who they are, they flaunt who they are and every time we hear "lessons will be learned", but who learns the lessons? The next predator / abuser learns how the previous one got caught and how to refine their game, and victims and survivors learn that they're expendable, and the cycle keeps turning and new victims are created and it fucking kills me because the people in power just don't care because what do they lose? Nothing.

I've been saying similar for decades now. Even the 'lessons will be learned' seems like a sop to the public. I've been hearing that trope and wondering why actual lessons are never learned.

Pretty much every bad thing that made the news headlines and people were appalled, few months or a year later a similar thing happens (baby Peter comes to mind)

However, you have put it better than I've been ranting about it irl.

Sorry I missed your post, @NiceGerbil

With hindsight, I would like to have said 'That's a game I'm not interested in playing.'

@Congressdingo @TheWeeDonkey Couldn’t agree with you both more. There will certainly be an INQUIRY so we (we?) can LEARN LESSONS from this. Christ knows how much that will cost, how much time will be spent by male politicians and “experts” waffling on in committee rooms for the conclusions to be drawn that many wise women drew, and have been trying to draw attention to, years ago 🧐🤬

If only they'd listened back in 2021!

It’s interesting to see the same name(s) putting their case forward still. In some instances the quality and substance hasn’t progressed at all in the last few years.