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I represented a rape complainant in an appeal hearing today. Last week, the mother applied to recuse Sir Jonathan Cohen from hearing her appeal because, in part, he’s a member of the all male Garrick Club. She asserted a real possibility of bias. He was recused from her case.
Prince Andrew who was accused of sexually assaulting a sex trafficking victim and stripped of his patronages - wears full royal robes - which symbolises his honour and chivalry.
Prince Harry wears a suit to his father’s coronation because he moved to the US.
Prince Andrew is more popular than Prince Harry & Meghan Markle says new poll. The British public prefer a man accused of sex abuse who was friends with a sex offender — than two people speaking out about press harassment & family suffering. Our culture values silence not truth.
He raped three school girls but the headline focuses on the rapist crying. Tired of seeing disproportionate sympathy towards male predators who deserve to be held accountable. Himpathy.
I'm going to be blunt. With men like Andrew Tate (a self-proclaimed ‘misogynist’) being viewed 11.6 billion times and men like David Carrick in our police force, no, I am not shocked 1 in 4 women have been raped or sexually assaulted or that rape convictions are at their lowest.
Only in a woman-hating society, would using brain dead women as living wombs be up for discussion. This is how it starts, how it ends is legislators making this law.
Shocking that Prince Andrew reportedly paid almost £10,000,000 to silence Virginia Guiffre for one year after he was accused of sexually assaulting her. But Harry and Meghan are ruining the Monarchy. Got it.
‘Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money. I didn’t deserve what my family did to me.’
— Britney Spears.
Just after Meghan Markle opened up about suicidal ideation — all I can think about is how she feels reading that a powerful man (with a 7 million following) wants her to be stripped naked and abused in the street. The media’s publication of misogyny makes abuse appear acceptable.
A message to pregnant women — please give the baby your surname.
You carried a baby for 9 months, gave birth, and will be responsible for that child for the rest of your life. When you’re registering the baby ask yourself: why is the father’s surname more important than yours?
Where is the victim’s voice? Where are her words? “I’m scared,” Nicole Brown told her mother a few months before she was killed. “I go to the gas station, he’s there. I go to the Payless Shoe Store, and he’s there. I’m driving, and he’s behind me.”
Five days before Nicole Brown…
Schoolgirl, 15, allegedly told teenage boy 'she didn't want to go out with him anymore and rejected flowers' moments before he knifed her to death with a machete on her way to school.
Boys are afraid that girls will laugh at them. Girls are afraid that boys will kill them.
The food bank round the corner is closed today because of the coronation. People are going hungry while £250,000,000 of our money is spent on an unelected King born into unimaginable wealth. He doesn’t know hunger, poverty or deprivation. Our country is in political crisis.
Princess Kate goes to food bank to get photos taken of her looking at poor people’s food and she’s praised by the press. Meghan Markle volunteered at a community kitchen helping Grenfell survivors & the media link the kitchen’s premises to 19 terrorist suspects. Is this for real?
Any man who has violent sexual fantasies about stripping a woman naked, making her walk through the streets while people chant SHAME and throw excrement at here needs serious professional help NOT a column in the Sun.
Prince Harry marries a truly brilliant woman
Prince Andrew was friends with a sex-trafficker
Have a guess which Prince the British Media hates on more....
If 200 children went missing from school & their families, it would be headline news. There’d be a public appeal & child rescue alert. But when 200 asylum-seeking children go missing from hotels (some of them abducted off the street & bundled into cars) it barely makes the news.
Who would of thought a Prince speaking out about press intrusion and alleged family violence would be more threatening and intolerable to the tabloid press — than alleged sex abuse by Prince Andrew. The treatment of Prince Harry is far worse than his uncle received.
Jeremy Clarkson apologised to Prince Harry about a sexually violent article he wrote about his wife.
Meghan Markle — the actual victim — who Clarkson wanted stripped naked, shamed in the street and excrement thrown at, received no direct apology.
Make it make sense.
Remember when Caroline Flack tragically killed herself and everyone (incl the tabloids) said we need to be kind. Now we see Meghan Markle called liar, narcissistic, mad, vindictive, toxic. Women in the public eye are vilified by blatant everyday misogyny.
18 months after the murder of Sarah Everard, Carrick faced an allegation of rape. He was arrested but the Met did not view it as serious enough to suspend him from duty. Colleagues knew him as “Bastard Dave”. Colleagues nicknamed Wayne Couzens, “the rapist”. No one did anything.
One of the worst sex offenders in recent UK history was ONLY just fired from his job as a serving police officer. Women complained about this man for two decades. Imagine if their warnings were originally listened to.
If people on council estates took to the streets to hunt down a helpless animal & then gloated as they watched dogs tear it to shreds, they’d be called savages. When upperclass folk wear elite uniform, ride horses & watch pedigree dogs rip a fox to shreds it’s called “sport”.
11.6 billion people watched videos of Andrew Tate. Name one man-hating woman who has been watched billions of times. You can’t. Misogyny is real, misandry is not.
The only person of colour in the royal family isn’t present because Meghan Markle was bullied out. Here is, The ‘modern’ royal family: exclusively white and privileged. We pay for this.
The Royal Family didn’t stand by Meghan Markle when she was violently abused by Jeremy Clarkson — but it’s nice to see them stand by Prince Andrew, a man who was friends with a sex trafficker. What a wonderful family.
Our girls are terrorised by male violence. 1 in 4 women will be raped or sexually assaulted, 3 women are killed each week by a man, a man is more likely to be raped by a man than falsely accused — but sure let’s focus on false male fears.
I stand with Megan Thee Stallion, Amber Heard, Meghan Markle, Princess Diana, Caroline Flack, Whitney Houston, Taylor Swift, Britney… every single woman who dares to speak up and is damned.
When a woman says she was raped, she’s asked ‘why didn’t you report to the police?’
The police recorded 67,169 rapes in 2022. Only 2 in 100 rapes were charged.
Instead of asking why victims don’t report rape, let’s ask police why they’re failing to hold rapist’s accountable.
Where is Jeremy Clarkson’s article about Prince Andrew then? Why isn't he saying Prince Andrew should be stripped naked and shamed in the street? Or does he hate a woman who has done nothing wrong - more than a man who was friends with a sex offender? Interesting stance Jeremy.
Missing mother Nicola Bulley had "some significant issues with alcohol" brought on by struggles with the menopause, police have said.
Such a serious invasion into her private life which will only result in further victim blaming. Shameful.
Shamima Begum was a child bride who was married at 15 years old to a man age 23 who she met for 10 minutes before they wed. As a child, she was impregnated — all three babies died. Sex with a child is pedophilia. She is a victim of violence against women & girls.
Daily mail shames a 27 year old woman for having fun. Apparently mothers can’t be ambitious, youthful, drink alcohol, work full time & have fun — in other words how dare she have desires outside of motherhood. She should be at home.
Sophie Turner, have a few shots on us girl!
Too many men are saying, 'if she didn't want to be 'kissed' she should have pushed him away, said no or yelled back.' It's a common misconception that victims of sex abuse fight back. Most suffer 'tonic immobility', they freeze like deer in the headlights, wishing it to be over.
Donald Trump has been ordered by a court to pay $5,000,000 to a woman he said he’s never met.
Prince Andrew agreed to pay £12,000,000 to a woman he said he’s never met.
It’s a lot of money to pay to women they’ve never met.
Despite what the police have said, the killing of a woman and her child by a man are not isolated incidents. Three women are killed each week by men. Why isn’t male violence against women a national emergency?
Why the hell is the BBC giving Andrew Tate a platform when he’s on trial for of rape, sex trafficking & exploiting women. He called a complainant’s allegations ‘imaginary.’ I can’t imagine how survivor’s feel watching this. It’s a slap in the face.
Since when did an affair - that humiliated and deeply hurt Princess Diana - become a love story? This is not a romance to aspire to. History is being rewritten.
Prince Harry alleges he was physically attacked and knocked to the floor by his brother Prince William. People laughing at physical abuse should be ashamed of themselves.
A commonly held myth is that abusive men have ‘anger issues’ and need ‘anger management treatment’. This was debunked by Lundy Bancroft when he worked with abusive men and found their anger was actually fake — it was used to control and intimidate their partners.
Leonardo DiCaprio (almost 50 years old) is hanging out with a 19 year old girl who was a child just a few years who, and wasn’t even born when the film Titanic came out, smh.
Prince William is FA President yet he didn’t attend the women’s World Cup final — he was silent when Jenni Hermoso was sexually assaulted by Spain’s FA President — he was also silent when his uncle was accused of sex abuse—he was silent when his sister in law suffered misogynoir.
The murder of Emma Pattison and daughter, Lettie is not murder-suicide, it’s familicide — a family murder in which a man murders his wife and child. Familicide like femicide is gendered violence perpetrated by men towards women. Name it.
It doesn’t matter how much evidence victims have. Even when they’re abused on a world stage with millions of witnesses, they’re called liars & threatened with litigation until they’re silenced. Never ask women why they don’t report abuse, ask men why they don’t believe women.
Murder-suicide? No, he murdered his wife and child. He killed himself after he despicably took their lives — his suicide doesn’t belong in the headline.
Too many men saying she should have just taken the flowers and gone out with him. If she had, you’d say she led him on. If girls reject boys, they’re killed. If they comply out of fear, they’re called manipulative liars.
People are kicking off saying Sam Smith’s video shouldn’t be allowed on YouTube…but millions of people watching Andrew Tate’s misogyny is fine? Make it make sense.
Zara Aleena was dragged off the street, sexually assaulted & murdered, but the court of appeal ruled the perpetrator’s sentence should be cut by 5 years because Zara "must have been rendered unconscious" in the 9 minute sexual assault where she sustained 56 separate injuries, and…
When Prince Andrew was accused of sex abuse, he wasn’t called deranged, delusional, psychotic by the media but Prince Harry is. All because he’s complained and explained.
“I can fuck Greta Thunberg & I’ve done nothing wrong & I wouldn’t use a condom either,”says 46 yr old man, Jim Jeffries about a teenage girl less than half his age.
Only in rape culture would this be a “joke.” Since Greta was a child, men have made sexual violence threats.
Having suffered the horror of being spiked, I’ve spent years campaigning to make it a specific criminal offence. The Home Secretary has undermined our work when he laughed at spiking — giving perpetrators a green light. RT if you agree he should be fired.
3.9 million children and 9.6 million adults live in poverty in the UK. Meanwhile, Charles' coronation is expected to cost around £100,00,000. That’s £33,333,333 per day over 3 days for 1 man — our unelected head of state — to have a crown put on his head. Make it make sense.
All I can think about is how the Spanish Women’s football team become world champions — and rather than celebrating their success — a man in power abused a footballer on the world stage, called her a liar — & now the women’s team is being sued for standing together in solidarity.
Jeremy Clarkson’s vile and abusive hatred is directed at three women:
Meghan Markle, feminist & campaigner for social good;
Nicola Sturgeon, feminist & first leader of Scotland;
Rose West, serial murderer & torturer of women.
The comparison is nonsensical and disgraceful.
If a straight white cis woman popstar did what sam smith did there would be no problem. People just don’t like that Sam is queer, plus sized and unapologetic about it. Case in point:
- Christina Aguilara in Dirrty
- Miles Curys in Wercking Ball
- Madonna in Like a Prayer
“Good-looking”, “shy”, “pleasant” and “polite” man
driven to murder his “vivacious, motivated”, ambitious wife and 7 year old daughter. If only she had stayed in the kitchen where she belonged, he would have been in control, and no one would have got hurt.
Himpathy & menscuse.
Yet more photos of Lucy Letby as an ‘innocent’ child & fun young woman. Are they trying to evoke empathy? What on earth have her ‘loving’ parents got to do with serial murders? If Letby was was a person of colour, single mother, drug user it’s likely they’d have vilified her.
Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand resigned saying she ‘no longer had enough in the tank’ to do the job. Nicola Sturgeon, first minister of Scotland resigned saying she ‘has had enough’.
We need to acknowledge toxicity & hate is putting women off entering politics.
What the hell has going through the menopause got to do with
#NicolaBulley
going missing? The police are supposed to find a missing woman, not smear her reputation as an ‘alcoholic’ who will likely be blamed for her own disappearance, and therefore written off.
I guess supporting the potential English world champions isn’t worth the effort when they’re women. FA President would likely be there in a heartbeat if men had made it to the World Cup final. Shame on two male leaders.
Andrew Tate reportedly sent the following texts to a woman who accused him of rape, “I love raping you”. “you were my whore when I had my hands on you”. “when ur under my control, I do whatever I please”.
And yet people still defend a man who called himself a “misogynist”. Nice.
Kate didn’t ‘speak loudly’ when her sister in law was hounded by racist misogynistic press resulting in suicidal ideation — she was silent when Jeremy Clarkson said Meghan should be stripped naked and excrement thrown at her.
Megan Markle owes Kate nothing.
Stephen Fry feels sorry for straight men because women don’t like sex as much. Whatever happened to a shag behind a bush in Hampstead? Perhaps the fact that every 3 days a woman is killed by a man — that might have something to do with it.
While people are struggling to keep a roof over their heads, pay their bills, heat their homes, and are reliant on food banks, it’s astounding that tax payers are expected to pay millions for the King’s Coronation — a man who is our ‘head of state’ but we never even voted for.
Isla Bryson is a rapist. Her actions are deplorable and repugnant. She is not representative of trans women, far from it, trans women are subjected to high levels of violence, rape, harassment and abuse. Please don’t use Bryson to bash a vulnerable and marginalised group.
SINEAD O'CONNOR sold over 6,258,795 albums, including 3,141,000 in the United States and 960,000 in the United Kingdom — all of that despite institutional and male violence.
She was a courageous, talented woman.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, they both walk alone because they don't need the establishment to prop them up. They do it their own way and that's why they're a threat.
When we talk about rape culture, we mean: a man raping a woman on public transport during rush hour; a man wearing a rape t-shirt to the airport, our Home Secretary joking about spiking his wife with date rape and our prime minister doing nothing about it. It’s all connected.
A brilliant woman of colour speaks out against racism & misogyny — and she’s compared to a white supremacist, a megalomaniac and a man who praised Hitler and compared abortion to “genocide”. This is the violent abuse of Meghan Markle — started by Clarkson.
“They wanted me to grow my hair really long and wear miniskirts and all that kind of stuff because they reckoned I'd look much prettier… So I went straight around to the barber and shaved the rest of my hair off."
— Sinead O’Connor, feminist firebrand.
Shamima Begum was a British child when she was groomed and radicalised by fundamentalists; she was trafficked; and she suffered gravely under ISIS. She was a child bride — and she watched her three children die. She is a British citizen and she should be brought to justice here.
If
#metoo
means men are afraid to approach women then that’s a risk I’m willing to take to save the lives of women killed by men, women raped by men and women abused by men.
This is why men like Andrew Tate are so popular. They lie to men that to be successful you need to dominate women. Why should Rihanna be submissive? She’s sold more than 200 million records and is worth $1.4 billion.
Cis women sex offenders are exceptionally rare —and they’re in women’s prisons. Trans women are more likely to be victims of sex abuse than perpetrate it. If a trans woman is convicted — and there’s a robust risk assessment (as is the case) — why can’t she be in a women’s prison?
UK menopause law change rejected as it ‘could discriminate against men’. Never mind that men discriminate against women by perpetrating domestic abuse on 1 in 3 women or raping or sexually assaulting 1 in 4. But sure, let’s focus on cis men who don’t even suffer the menopause.
When the media hates Prince Harry more than Prince Andrew. Standing up for your wife, a woman of colour (who suffered racist misogyny) is more threatening than a man accused of sexually assaulting a victim.
When survivors see Amber Heard standing tall, speaking loud, being successful, they know they can do it. Amber is living proof that there’s life after domestic abuse — it doesn’t always have to define you but it does change you. Solidarity ✊🏼