The 'me too' movement

HAL · Post by **HAL** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:56 pm

I like the English language.

Post by **stui magpie** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 4:14 pm

Pi wrote:Is this me too or something else...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b ... g-12165527

It's seriously farked up is what it is.

I don't think anyone could reasonably compare an adult woman being propositioned or touched up with children being repeatedly raped under threat.

Pi · Post by Pi » Fri Mar 23, 2018 4:59 pm

^

that's true, but the level of outrage in comparison is almost non existent... and we all know why.

Post by **stui magpie** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 5:37 pm

There's multiple reasons why, none of them good.

Mugwump · Post by **Mugwump** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:12 pm

Post by **stui magpie** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:14 pm

The thing was, way back before the 50's people still had sex out of wedlock. It's just that no access to contraceptives and the morality of the time meant some shitty consequences,

My paternal granparents got jiggy with it resulting in a shotgun marriage and a first born child handed off to relatives for several years until the dust settled. She was mortified when she found her parents marriage certificate after her mum died and did the maths.

My maternal grandfather was born to a single mother, something none of his siblings (or he for that matter) seemed to know. His mother married when he was 2 and he got along so well with his stepfather that at age 10, he had a fight with him then got on his horse and rode away, never to come back.

We can't romanticise the past, but we also shouldn't look at past behaviours through a present lens and judge them. The past is the past. A different planet and a different time.

Mugwump · Post by **Mugwump** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:37 pm

ronrat · Post by **ronrat** » Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:54 pm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-24/a ... me/9582278

This a sideshow to this issue. But is part of the Faux outrage that has nothing to do with reality. I have been in a few of these gogo bars and saw one ping pong show once (the girlfriend was with me), By far the majority of the punters were Koreans, Japanese and Chinese. If the author of the article doesn't need to fly from London to Adelaide to eat there. But unwittingly she has given them that most valuable of commodities for a small business. Free advertising. It is also a bit rich coming from a music producer. Eating a bowl of Pho is not going to have thousands of Adelaide people race of to Vietnam to bang hookers. I mean the movie is 30 years old and the story is about 50 years old.

K · Post by K » Tue Oct 30, 2018 2:31 pm

'I felt belittled': Eryn Jean Norvill speaks in Rush defamation case

https://www.theage.com.au/national/i-fe ... 50ctp.html

Post by **David** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:34 pm

K · Post by K » Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:21 pm

Post by **David** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:40 am

MJ23 · Post by **MJ23** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:58 am

Have to say, in reading the testimony Rush looks to be in a bit of trouble.

He had a huge amount of power and she was stuck in a scene and situation where all her control was taken from her as she saw or understood it.

Not good and really feel for her

watt price tully · Post by **watt price tully** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 10:02 am

K · Post by K » Wed Oct 31, 2018 10:16 am

MJ23 wrote:Have to say, in reading the testimony Rush looks to be in a bit of trouble.
...

It's still possible that The Daily Telegraph will lose the case and Rush will be in a lot of trouble (if, for example, his behaviour is deemed inappropriate, but the imputations of the articles --- that I'd like to see, but haven't --- are deemed far worse).

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