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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

BBC article on violence against women

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PaleBlueMoonlight · 03/03/2022 20:29

Useful article, but conspicuous by its absence is the near complete absence of any stats on the sex of the perpetrators.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-56365412

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CompleteGinasaur · 03/03/2022 20:34

I read that earlier today and thought exactly the same thing. The one set of statistics that would pull the whole article together omitted. How curious..

PaleBlueMoonlight · 03/03/2022 20:38

Yes. Curious.

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winniesanderson · 03/03/2022 20:43

Yes I noticed this too.

CompleteGinasaur · 03/03/2022 20:59

It's like there's a great big black hole in the middle of the reporters' brains (and yes they're both women) and as soon as the writer/s get anywhere near the crucial factor that would make sense of the whole thing an alarm starts screaming 'Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!' and they run away back to implied victim blaming again...

Nice and safe over there, can't upset the rapists now, can we...?

PaleBlueMoonlight · 03/03/2022 21:04

@CompleteGinasaur

It's like there's a great big black hole in the middle of the reporters' brains (and yes they're both women) and as soon as the writer/s get anywhere near the crucial factor that would make sense of the whole thing an alarm starts screaming 'Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!' and they run away back to implied victim blaming again...

Nice and safe over there, can't upset the rapists now, can we...?

Possibly not the main point, but who is Will Robinson?
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WarmWinterSun · 03/03/2022 21:10

Seems like they forgot to mention who is doing the killing.

Will Robinson- the boy in Lost in Space and his robot alerting him to danger. It’s a classic

WorkingItOutAsIGo · 04/03/2022 00:10

It was wonderful on Woman’s Hour today to hear an interviewee saying that it was important to be clear that the issue is male violence against women and girls, and no one said oh but women can be violent too.

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