Shave your minges and keep your tits nice and pert

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Just in case you're ever the victim of a sexual assault. Wouldn't want to look unfuckable now would we..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67958136

And yet it is practically taboo to say that men are a fucking huge problem in our society.

Huge respect for the student officer. How awful he has lost his job.

That’s so disturbing. And how on earth did her bare chest and groin “become exposed” as a result of her seizure? That in itself sounds as dodgy as hell, without the subsequent vile behaviour.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/to-catch-a-copper

This is a very difficult watch.

There's nothing about this that is not shocking and depressing but it is grim that it was a female officer who started watching the video. Misogynistic women participating in abuse of other women.

Culture matters. Them getting rid of a student with standards is appalling too. Though it is hard to imagine him succeeding in the police as it stands.

Yes! It's so annoying. The meaning these days has become "there's just one or two bad ones so we shouldn't think badly of all of them, because the rest of them are all perfectly decent chaps".

Unfortunately, he seems unlikely to have a happy career in the police force anyway. But every credit to him.

Every time we see another of these awful and lurid headlines, i can't help but think, if I was a woman in an emergency, wold I trust the police? it's embedded through them like Brighton rock.

She may have been watching the video to write a report or something? I saw no suggestion she participated in the subsequent conversation.

It's simultaneously horrifying and not surprising. I understand many police officers are feeling attacked and defensive (NOPALT) but surely the police service can see how sweeping individual cases under the rug and throwing out the whistleblowers makes them look to the public.

The female officer being the one to bring up the photos first made me remember a book by Ariel Levy - Female Chauvinist Pigs. It's probably a bit dated now as it was specifically about what she called 'raunch culture' but I remember it referred to young women trying to outdo men in misogyny which seems pertinent now.

Thank you, this is something I will remember every time that metaphor is trotted out.

Has anyone seen the most recent series of Vera? Joe came back from the College of Policing being a knob 😂 Such accuracy is rare.

Police are members of society and their attitudes reflect the misogyny in wider society.

It is hard to believe that it is 42 years since the deliberate cruelty and misogyny that seemed to be endemic in the police force was revealed in the Roger Graef fly on the wall documentary, “Rape” , exposing what happened to many women, especially victims of assault when they were dealing with police forces.

I remember seeing the documentary at the time and being horrified. I am even more horrified that the same attitudes still seem to be prevalent today.

I haven't read the article but I've been through a rape investigation. It was as bad as the rape itself really.

I was forced to accept a male intimate examination to collect evidence as there were no women available.

One of the horrible memories that stick out from that ordeal was that he repeated, as though I wasn't even there "she has shaved, she has shaved, I cannot collect evidence." And then went on to tell me off for shaving because it makes the police's job more difficult.

I've not shaved a hair on my body since then and that was 11 years ago.

See my username.

This is revolting, and shows a structural misogyny problem with the police. I hope the victim sues them, and crowd funds the effort.

LentilFaculties · Today 09:57

And yet it is practically taboo to say that men are a fucking huge problem in our society.

Men are a fucking huge problem in our society.

Depressing to be a man, to be honest.

Sword

I feel like I'm being bombarded with this stuff. My attitude (as a MC white woman) growing up would have been to trust the police. Not anymore and I will be talking to my dds differently too.

This just popped up on my social media timeline

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-67996315.amp

I am so sorry that happened to you. And the police wonder why women won't come forward to report rapes, to be first retraumatised by the investigation and then retraumatised again by either CPS not deciding they can prosecute or a judge and jury deciding that the woman's life might have been wrecked but we can't possibly harm the prospects of the rapist.

sword I'm so sorry for your horrific experience.

I can really relate to the sentiment that the way the aftermath is handled can be as traumatising as the event itself.

viques I avoided watching that documentary for years, I knew it would be a misogyny fest. When I eventually caught up with it, I realised my imagination had completely failed me. Utterly contemptible odious men who knew they were being filmed for a documentary . Just terrible. And nothing appears to have changed other than that a few soft furnishings have been added to the interview rooms. New coat of paint. Solves everything.

I'm just watching Vera. They're all so wrong, aren't they, the fictional detective stories? You get bad cops, bent cops, occasionally even murderous cops. But I don't think I've ever seen TV series with policemen who rape, expose themselves, strip search women, make misogynistic sexual remarks about victims, and show the level of woman-hating that is evident in real policemen.

I had hoped they would be better by now. Years ago a lad I knew from school joined the police. He was a gentle , caring, left of centre kind of a guy you might more easily have imagined as a politics professor.

After police basic training a group of us were in the pub one night and he spouted some racist bollocks that you would never have heard from him before police basic training.

It shocked us and we told him so. We lost touch before long. Probably for the best.

Where's Felix?