I don’t know anything about Swedish law. I don’t know any more about the Assange case than what’s been circulated in the press. But I do know sexism when I see it. The irony of the Assange case is that, not unlike the purpose of Wikileaks, these rape allegations are exposing the latent misogyny of [...]
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Assange is busy exposing you all
Posted in Feminism, Journal, tagged Assange, cables, feminism, gender equality, patriarchy, sexism, society, wikileaks on December 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Please stop trivialising rape!
Posted in Feminism, Journal, tagged Assange, feminism, gender equality, patriarchy, politics, sexism, society, wikileaks on December 7, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was refused bail today. The amount of people who are willing to jump to Assange’s defence and dismiss the rape allegations as ‘smears’ is worrying. What’s even more worrying is the amount of people who are eagerly willing to redefine what actually constitutes as rape. Suddenly, everyone’s an expert. Forget intent or context, [...]
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