Thursday, January 15th, 2009

People can't be an assault victims until they've been criticized

[info]adevyish
The CBC reports a story about a 66-year-old missionary, Eloise Bergen, and her husband who was assaulted in Kenya earlier this year, and recently testified against her assaulters. People feel the need to state their opinions in the comments: Read more... )

This story has been widely reported by Canadian media, so there are even more choice comments, including an opinion piece and replies on the Globe and Mail site. There are also articles from when the assault occurred, including a longer comment thread at the original CBC article.

ETA: Sorry, was a mispost (the comments I originally found were wanky rather than plain depressing, and I forgot to change the field). The recipes sound delicious, though.
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Friday, August 10th, 2007

"I LIKE RAPE, SO SUE ME!"

[info]firebad
Over at moviebuffs, sundayschildx writes a little rant about Hitchcock's Frenzy, in particular the rather graphic rape scene. An addendum tells us that she has deleted replies disagreeing with her and disabled comments on the entry, along with calling said repliers "assholes."

Enter polyester_queen, who, in a separate entry, calls her out.

And fun was had by all.

ETA: Bing! Snacky's Law.
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