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13-10-2017, 10:46 AM | #1 | |||
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...ome-night/amp/
Read his appalling story this morning, the second similar story in a few months. I hope they catch every one of them. Poor girl separated from friends, may have been drugged preyed upon over and over again by casual strangers in one case three at once. What is with this? Are a lot of men opportunist sexual predators if a vulnerable girl crosses their path? Is it just bad luck? It makes me so angry to think this distressed girl was just preyed upon over and over.
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13-10-2017, 10:48 AM | #2 | |||
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aw poor girl this makes me feel so sad that we live in such a cruel world
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13-10-2017, 11:18 AM | #3 | ||
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Poor kid :/ Something really needs to be done about the general attitude towards females. Yet, I bet even on this thread we get people trying to blame her. Females just...existing..seems to be a problem and enough to blame them for the actions of disgusting male people.
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13-10-2017, 11:23 AM | #4 | |||
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Poor girl. My daughter is 17 so it particularly strikes a chord with me. She is going to a concert in Dublin with her 3 friends next month which is about a 3 hour drive away from us and I'm going drive them there and wait for them because I'm too nervous about her getting from the venue back to the bus at night up there
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13-10-2017, 12:05 PM | #5 | ||
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Actually discussing this elsewhere too and someones posted this too
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...elp-birmingham Raped by 2 separate people in short succession Jesus christ. I know its customary to have the 'not all men are like that' disclaimer when discussing male violence, but I am really starting to wonder if the percentage of men who ARE like that is as low as people would like to think it is.
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13-10-2017, 12:05 PM | #6 | |||
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13-10-2017, 12:08 PM | #7 | |||
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13-10-2017, 12:13 PM | #8 | ||
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How many men are there in the UK?32 million? 33 million? How many of these cases are there?Probably not even 1% of the UK male population. There are some sick bastards in the world but they are a tiny minority. |
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13-10-2017, 12:13 PM | #9 | ||
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13-10-2017, 12:25 PM | #10 | |||
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Obviously less men do this than not, but it does not seem to be the tiny minority that you would hope it was. And seems to be on the rise too :S
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13-10-2017, 12:35 PM | #11 | ||
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13-10-2017, 01:04 PM | #12 | ||
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Regardless of if its 1%, it is shocking that this has happened to this girl, and others before her. And shocking that when something like this happens the conversation turns to 'not all men are like that' and such rather than accepting this is a huge problem (even if it was 0.0000001% of men, its odd that 3 unrelated pervs of this tiny minority happened to be in the same area at the same time to take advantage, eh?) and that misogyny seems to be on the rise...
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13-10-2017, 01:49 PM | #13 | ||
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Just responding to your statement that it’s more men than we think.I’d still think that it is a very small percentage of men would do anything like that. I think it is terrible that this even happens once but 2-3 times in one evening is awful. I guess it’s where you get large congregations of people in an area the chances of the sickos lurking about is higher. |
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13-10-2017, 01:54 PM | #14 | ||
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I know you didnt bring up not all men. That was in response to the thread elsewhere, where some guy was kicking up a fuss that by discussing this disgusting case, we were branding all men with the 'perv' stick. Which is odd tbh. I doubt anyone thinks all men do this...and if you are 'one of the good guys' then why take offense to people discussing those..not so good.
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13-10-2017, 02:11 PM | #15 | |||
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I can't imagine what that poor girl went through.
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13-10-2017, 03:34 PM | #16 | |||
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I also made a thread about this, I didnt see this one at the time. Could I ask a mod to merge them please?
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13-10-2017, 03:48 PM | #17 | ||
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Sorry Jaxie, didn't see yours. Specifically searched too to check before making it. Guess I went blind temporarily xD
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13-10-2017, 09:36 PM | #18 | |||
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Would never have happened 20 yrs ago.
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13-10-2017, 09:48 PM | #19 | ||
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Three completely unrelated people in one night?
What are the chances? |
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13-10-2017, 09:56 PM | #20 | ||
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Not to head over to the dark side on this one, but as has been pointed out... This is more about the specific area, and especially the area plus time of night, than what percentage of men overall would attack someone like this.
Basically, the majority of people who are likely to be wandering around a rough area after say 10pm are going to be bad news. I've stupidly wandered through a very bad area drunk at 1am, ONCE in my life. I've also had a knife pulled on me once in my life. Same night. It's not a coincidence... It's just a fact that in certain places, at certain times, you are at a much higher risk of attack. Not just x% more risk... But actually a jump from "miniscule risk" to "in serious danger". Last edited by Toy Soldier; 13-10-2017 at 09:58 PM. |
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13-10-2017, 10:06 PM | #21 | |||
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That i can put up with, but the chances of a woman being raped late at night being raised to "seriously in danger" in certain areas of the uk is something that should never happen. Its a pity everyone sighing so hard about foodbanks etc dont stand up to this. Last edited by parmnion; 13-10-2017 at 10:30 PM. |
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13-10-2017, 10:41 PM | #22 | ||
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kust see it on London news website - had to flick off as so disturbing to read. poor poor poor girl. evil people out there.
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14-10-2017, 08:22 AM | #23 | ||
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There are no go areas after dark all over the world.
Young girls that are under the age to be drinking on their own late at night and so out of it that they cant stand. If you put yourself in a dangerous situation, chances are it will end badly. |
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14-10-2017, 08:23 AM | #24 | ||
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14-10-2017, 10:41 AM | #25 | |||
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Poor girl I won't argue about 'colour' as it doesn't matter what matters is this girls was put through an awful ordeal..not once but multiple times I hope each of those awful awful people are put in a rocket and sent into the sun...
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