#England Rape

[nansheonearth]

#boston #massachusetts #new england #ivf #pregnancy #rape culture #patriarchy #medical abuse #abuse #women's bodies #sarah depoian #merle berger #boston ivf #radfem #o

[femsolid]

[England]

Over the past five years more than 300 officers have been reported for rape and 500 for sexual assault. Only ten of those accused of sexual assault have been convicted. The vast majority – 350 – are still working for the police.

“Holly”, a serving police officer who was raped by a colleague, said there was “simply not a chance that all 350 are innocent of the things they are accused of”. Her attacker was allowed to stay in the force for years until he was exposed by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. In the meantime Holly and others who had been attacked struggled to get the force to take their allegations seriously.

“If you made a complaint, you were painted as having serious ‘mental health issues’ or ‘attention seeking’,” she said. “It was like you had stepped back into the 1920s before all women even had the right to vote. The police took women's voices and silenced them.”

More than 250 police officers had been reported more than once for sexual offences. A dozen had more than five separate reports against their names.

The true numbers of accused officers are likely even higher. TBIJ’s data was compiled from FOI requests to every police force in the UK, but nine failed to provide full figures.

TBIJ has been tracking forces’ failure to deal with police perpetrated domestic abuse (PPDA) for the past five years. In particular, TBIJ has highlighted how forces let down victims and the public when they fail to properly investigate allegations against their own officers.

The murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, a serving Met police officer who had been reported for exposing himself in public, showed how catastrophic the consequences of inaction on sexual offences can be. Two years on, however, there is little sign of wider reform.

In February this year David Carrick was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison after admitting 24 counts of rape and sexual offences against 12 women while serving as a Met officer. He had been repeatedly reported for domestic abuse since joining the police in 2001, but those allegations had not been taken seriously.

In TBIJ’s research, of the 375 officers and staff reported for domestic abuse in the past two years, more than three quarters are still working for the police.

In 2020 TBIJ worked with the Centre for Women’s Justice to submit a supercomplaint to police watchdogs. The Independent Office for Police Conduct, the College of Policing, and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services responded with a joint report last year, admitting there were systemic weaknesses in how forces respond to allegations against their own people.

In particular they were “not always doing enough to ensure all PPDA cases are properly and impartially investigated”. In January the National Police Chiefs Council reported that most forces had agreed to improve procedures for dealing with PPDA. In March the Casey Review found the Met Police was institutionally misogynist, racist and homophobic.

#police #misogyny #rape #feminism #england

[princesssarisa]

I'm now reading another of Heidi Ann Heiner's fairy tale collections. Sleeping Beauties: Sleeping Beauty and Snow White Tales from Around the World. Since I enjoyed Cinderella Tales from Around the World so much, I couldn't resist opening another of Heiner's books.

The first part of the book is devoted to the different international versions of Sleeping Beauty, the second part to the different versions of Snow White. This is followed by other tales of "sleeping beauties" that don't fit nearly into either category.

We start with the medieval Sleeping Beauty prototype tales from the 13th and 14th centuries.

*The earliest known prototype of the Sleeping Beauty story is the Norse and Germanic legend of Brynhild (a.k.a. Brunhild, Brunhilda, Brünnhilde, or other variations). This legend first appears in the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and the Volsunga Saga from 13th century Iceland. It also appears in the German Nibelungenlied (although that version doesn't include the enchanted sleep), and its most famous modern adaptation is in Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. The figure of Brynhild also inspired the Marvel superheroine Valkyrie.

**The Sleeping Beauty-like portion of the legend is this. The beautiful and strong-willed Brynhild is one of the valkyries, the warrior maiden servants (and in some versions daughters) of Odin (or Woden, Wotan, etc.) who preside over battlefields and bring the souls of fallen heroes to Valhalla. But Brynhild disobeys Odin by saving (or trying to save) the life of a warrior who was marked for death. (The man's identity, why he was meant to die, why she defends him, and whether she succeeds in saving him or not varies between versions.) As punishment, Odin banishes her to the mortal realm, pricks her with a "sleep thorn," and places her in a castle (or just on a rock) surrounded by a ring of fire, condemning her to sleep until a man brave enough to venture through the flames arrives to wake her and become her husband. (In some versions, she has attendants and servants who all sleep along with her.) Many years later, the fearless hero Sigurd, or Siegfried, succeeds in passing unharmed through the flames and wakes Brynhild by cutting off her valkyrie armor (or in later retellings influenced by Sleeping Beauty, with a kiss). The couple doesn't live happily ever after, however: their further adventures and eventual tragic fates are a story for another day.

**Even though it's a well-known fact that in "the original Sleeping Beauty stories," the prince (or his counterpart) impregnates the sleeping heroine and she wakes after she gives birth, no such thing happens in this earliest proto-version. If we assume that this really is the Western world's first tale of a heroine in an enchanted sleep, then it seems as if that sordid detail was a later addition.

*Next in Heiner's book come several medieval French Sleeping Beauty tales, mostly from Arthurian romances. These are the tales where we first see the motif of the heroine's love interest raping her in her sleep and fathering a child. Since few of them have ever been translated into modern English, the book simply summarizes them instead of printing them in full.

**The best-known of these stories, which most resembles Sleeping Beauty as we know it today, is the tale of Troylus and Zellandine from Le Roman de Perceforest, an Arthurian romance from 14th or 15th century France. In this tale, a knight named Troylus loves a princess named Zellandine. Then learns that while spinning, Zellandine has suddenly fallen into a deep sleep, from which no one can wake her. With the help of a spirit named Zephir and the goddess Venus, Troylus enters the tower where she lies and, at Venus's urging, he takes her virginity. Nine months later, Zellandine gives birth to a son, and when the baby sucks on her finger, she wakes. Zellandine's aunt now arrives, and reveals the whole backstory, which only she knew. When Zellandine was born, the goddesses Lucina, Themis, and Venus came to bless her. As was customary, a meal was set out for the three goddesses, but then the room was left empty so they could enter, dine, and give their blessings unseen; but the aunt hid behind the door and overheard them. Themis received a second-rate dinner knife compared to those of the other two, so she cursed the princess to someday catch a splinter of flax in her finger while spinning, fall into a deep sleep, and never awaken. But Venus altered the curse so that it could be broken and promised to ensure that it would be. When the baby sucked Zellandine's finger, he sucked out the splinter of flax. Eventually, Zellandine and Troylus reunite, marry, and become ancestors of Sir Lancelot.

***This tale provides some answers for questions that the traditional Sleeping Beauty raises. In the familiar tale, the king, the queen, and their court know about the curse, so why do they keep it a secret from the princess? Yes, they avoid upsetting her by doing so, but the end result is that when she finally sees a spindle, she doesn't know to beware of it. Why not warn her? And why is there a random old woman in the castle, spinning with presumably the kingdom's one spindle that wasn't destroyed, and why, despite living in the castle does she not know about the curse? (It's no wonder that most adaptations make her the fairy who cursed the princess in disguise.) Yet in this earlier version, there are no such questions: no one except the eavesdropping aunt knows about the curse, because it was cast in private, so no one can take precautions against it. Another standout details is the fact that Zellandine's sleep doesn't last for many years, and that the man who wakes her already loved her before she fell asleep. Disney didn't create those twists after all!

**The other medieval French Sleeping Beauty tales are Pandragus and Libanor (where Princess Libanor's enchanted sleep only lasts one night, just long enough for Pandragus to impregnate her), Brother of Joy and Sister of Pleasure (where the princess isn't asleep, but dead – yet somehow the prince still impregnates her – and is revived by an herb that a bird carries to her), and Blandin de Cornoalha (a knight who, refreshingly, doesn't impregnate the sleeping maiden Brianda, but breaks her spell by bringing a white hawk to her side).

*All of these early Sleeping Beauty tales are just one part of bigger poetic sagas. Maybe this explains why Sleeping Beauty is fairly light on plot compared to other famous fairy tales (i.e. we're told what's going to happen, and then it does happen, and it all seems inevitable from the start). Of course one argument is that it's a symbolic tale: symbolic of a young girl's coming-of-age, as the princess's childhood ends when she falls asleep and her adulthood begins when she wakes, and/or symbolic of the seasons, with the princess as a Persephone-like figure whose sleep represents winter and whose awakening represents spring. That's all valid. But maybe another reason for the flimsy plot is that the earliest versions of the tale were never meant to stand alone. They were just episodes in much longer and more complex narratives.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @adarkrainbow, @themousefromfantasyland

#sleeping beauty #fairy tale #variations #sleeping beauties: sleeping beauty and snow white tales from around the world #heidi ann heiner #norway #iceland #germany #norse mythology #france #england #italy #tw: rape #tw: cannibalism

[antifainternational]

March 26, Newquay - Resist the far-right!

#antifa #antifascism #antifascist action #uk #britain #england #newquay #rape mention

[dcrthvcder]

aegon is a rapist btw

so is every other man in a song of ice and fire universe so where do we get from there

#anti team black #anti hotd #anti targaryen #anti house of the dragon #aegon ii targaryen #you dumb bitches bring this argument as a gotcha moment for a series that is inspired by 16th century england where the church saw women+ #+as their husband’s property #i assume you are team black aka targaryen stan so i have a surprise for you #every single targaryen you worship is either a rapist or rape apologist and that includes daenerys #so you don’t get to tell me aegon is rapist. maybe he got that from his targaryen side of the family😋😋😋 #think about it #sit with it #also yall have daemon on your side. you don’t get to use the word rape! #the person rhae got her ‘power’ from is also a rapist! #do you want me to go on? #i seriously hate yall so much yall even make got stans look like angels #mailbox #aegon ii #team green

[afieldinengland]

unexpected film analysis from my parents because we talked about a field in england (2013) last night: my mother said she firmly interpreted whitehead’s screaming in the tent as indicating a sexual assault by o’neill. my father, unnerved by this, said he interpreted it as indicating ‘you know, field stuff’

#rape tw #a field in england

[secular-jew]

Truth; Malmö, Sweden is the rape capital of Europe and Marseilles France is the crime capital. What do they both have in common? A high % of Muslim immigrants - where in Marseille, Muslims represent roughly 45% of the city population.

#islam #muslims #crime rate #europe #islamification #israeli #judaism #jewish #secular-jew #israel #diaspora #jerusalem #secular jew #secularjew #islamism #welcome to islam #islamic #england has fallen #muslim immigration #brussels #london #coventyr #birmingham #bradford england #montpelier #liege belgium #malmo sweden #malmo #rape #crime

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971, Piers Haggard)

Also known as: Satan’s Skin

6/19/23

#The Blood on Satan's Claw #Satan's Skin #Patrick Wymark #Linda Hayden #Barry Andrews #Michele Dotrice #Wendy Padbury #Anthony Ainley #Piers Haggard #70s #British #horror #England #17th Century #satanism #demonic possession #devil #folk horror #rape #cults #witchcraft #witchhunt #occult

[arctichotch]

seeing how people are treating the girl who came forward about being raped by thomas partey makes me so fucking sick and scared

she’s being called “another amber heard.” she’s being accused of doing this for money and attention. accused of lying. she’s been driven to contemplate suicide.

people will go so far to defend an abusive man. this girl did everything that people didn’t believe amber for. she went to the police. she has solid, irrefutable evidence. yet she’s still lying.

there is never enough evidence for people to believe a woman accusing a man of rape/abuse. because, to these people, women are liars trying to tear down their beloved men.

everyone who contributed to the spread of victim blaming techniques over the course of the depp v heard trial should feel fucking sick seeing what their thinking has encouraged.

to those who think that the trial had no effect on any victims coming forward, go look at this poor girls twitter and see the absolute filth being fired at her. most of these are the same people who supported johnny depp. it’s a sick pattern.

be very wary of people who crowd around to support abusers. they’re probably abusers themselves, at the very least abuse apologists.

#that breed of grown man football fans should actually be investigated #like just see how dv rises when england loses a match #these are the people on twitter waiting to tear down any woman who dares come forward about abuse by a powerful man #i feel fucking sick #abuse tw #rape tw #i stand with amber heard #i’m begging you if your first reaction to an abuse allegation coming out is to find ways to tear apart the accuser seek fucking help #and reevaluate your life #the world is just so fucking unsafe esp for women rn

[nansheonearth]

Mimi DiTrani, center, a former patient of Dr. Derrick Todd, held a news conference outside Brigham and Women’s Hospital Tuesday, where she shared her story of Todd's alleged abuse. Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe Staff

By Abby Patkin

Dr. Derrick Todd, a former Brigham and Women’s Hospital physician accused of performing inappropriate breast and pelvic exams, is now facing a lawsuit from a patient who alleges that the rheumatologist “sexually exploited, abused, harassed, and molested” her under the guise of medical care.

Filed in Suffolk Superior Court Tuesday, the lawsuit names Todd, Brigham and Women’s, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Mass General Brigham Community Physicians Inc., and Charles River Medical Associates as defendants.

Mimi DiTrani, who identified herself in a news conference Tuesday, said she first sought care at Brigham and Women’s in November 2022 for a genetic joint and skin condition.

At least 120 former patients have joined a class action lawsuit against a Boston-based physician accused of performing pelvic, breast and rectal exams on patients that were not medically necessary.

The suit from Lubin & Meyer is one of several against Dr. Derrick Todd. In total, more than 125 former patients have obtained legal representation.

#derrick todd #rape culture #judicial #medical abuse #abuse #boston #massachusetts #new england #healthcare #women's bodies #o #patriarchy #male violence #male

[earmo-imni]

Sometimes a family is an English transfem daughter of a werewolf who can herself into a regular wolf, her half a dozen unusually intelligent wolf siblings, her quiet and lonely werewolf husband, their two adopted kids, their third child who is actually their dead friends’ son and living with his aunt and uncle but they consider him theirs anyway, the trans woman’s Northern Irish, butch lesbian half sibling who would absolutely fight God if ze weren’t Catholic, hir possibly-a-traitor best friend who doesn’t know how he got here but this is the happiest he’s ever been so he’ll take it, the cute shapeshifter girl ze keeps dancing around, and the werewolf husband’s only remaining school friend who keeps fighting with the lesbian and hir best friend but is still ride-or-die for the entire group.

#got so long winded i had to color code to keep track of what was what lol #anyway this is about my hp ocs and the array of canon characters they’re connected to #in order: sarah taylor (oc) her siblings remus lupin their kids harry potter aisling doherty (oc) severus snape nymphadora tonks and sirius #black #anyway random notes on my ocs: #sarah is a gryffindor and aisling is a hufflepuff #fenrir greyback is their dad (they do NOT get along with him for various reasons) #remus and sarah’s kids are adopted. they live in little whinging after james and lily’s deaths to keep an eye on harry and consider him #their third child #aisling was born and raised in the bogside neighborhood of derry northern ireland and lived through a 3 day battle b/t catholics and #protestants about a month before ze left for hogwarts. this contributed to #they ended up marrying but he died later on when he travelled back to england for a visit and greyback got him #aisling is a halfblood. (tw rape mention) fenrir raped hir mom while he was in derry looking for a target. said target managed to escape #him and after realizing what happened to aisling’s mom took her in so she wouldn’t get sent to a laundry #(a place women who had children out of wedlock often got sent to throughout both irish nations. basically prisons) #meanwhile sarah is…idk halfblood maybe? her mother was a halfblood and idk what greyback is #sarah’s mom was part of greyback’s pack and had two sets of children with him: sarah and a litter of wolf pups. problem was greyback kept #trying to bite sarah before she was old enough to survive it so the mom sent sarah and the cubs to her sister. greyback killed sarah’s mom #for the betrayal but was unable to find the kids. meanwhile sarah grew up with remus lupin and was present when he got bit. as a result both #families spent the years until hogwarts moving around to avoid being found or noticed. sarah became an animagus to spend full moons with #remus and spent much of her school years having a novel-worthy romance with him. #oh and aisling would be an oriented aroace nonbinary butch lesbian in today’s very specific modern terms. but in the 70s 80s and 90s people #tended to worry a lot less about specific labels #my ocs #hp #in the first war with voldemort sarah was in the order of course. aisling didnt get involved bc ze was busy dealing with the Troubles in #Northern Ireland at the time. she only got involved when snape switched sides and reached out to aisling for some much needed emotional supp #*support #sarah taylor originated from my first fanfic ever and aisling used to just be called ‘severus snape’s queer irish best friend’ #marijn talks

[justvibingwhilecrying]

Mí amor<33

#my art #bright colors tw #implied sa #implied rape #bruises tw #hetalia #hws england

[coochiequeens]

Harriet Wistrich, founder of the Centre for Women's Justice, said: “The police leadership really need to get a grip on this and create a zero tolerance culture for such misogyny, or we will have yet more high-profile cases where serving officers are found to have carried out the most appalling crimes of sexual violence against women.”

Police officers who posted pornography and pestered women among those allowed to stay on duty

‘Terrifying picture’ of force culture is just 'tip of the ice berg', says former chief constable

ByJack Hardy,  CRIME CORRESPONDENT31 December 2022 • 9:00pm

Police officers who preyed upon women and posted homemade pornography to social media are among hundreds allowed to keep their jobs in recent years, it can be revealed.

An investigation by the Telegraph has found that the country’s rank-and-file continues to be plagued by officers whose wrongdoing online ranges from sexual harassment to racism.

Most received little more than a slap on the wrist after their behaviour came to light, with some facing no repercussions whatsoever from internal disciplinary probes.

The revelations, which come amid an unprecedented crisis of confidence in British policing, are said by one former chief constable to be “the tip of the iceberg”.

Just 6pc of investigated officers dismissed

The Telegraph can disclose that at least 921 officers have been investigated for their conduct in WhatsApp messages, texts, social media messages or posts since the start of 2017.

Yet only six per cent of the investigations led to the officers being dismissed, according to the data obtained from 29 police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Many forces were found to have given out written warnings for behaviour that many would consider worthy of immediate dismissal, including the abuse of police powers for sexual gain and sending indecent images to colleagues via social media.

Reprimanded officers also routinely escaped with light punishments such as “reflective practice” - thinking about what they have done - or “management action”, which amounts to a verbal dressing down by a superior.

A Metropolitan Police officer who sent a racist WhatsApp message, a Cleveland Police officer who demanded “nude pics” from a female probationer and a Durham Constabulary officer who sent sexual videos to colleagues are all among those given “reflective practice”.

Similarly, a scolding was deemed sufficient for a Durham Constabulary officer who used his work phone to try to “get close” to a member of the public’s wife and a Metropolitan Police officer who bombarded an individual with “unwanted” texts, calls and emails.

In one particularly bizarre case, an officer in London found to have “created, uploaded and distributed pornography on social media” received nothing more than a verbal rebuke.

The Telegraph uncovered many cases where officers faced “no action” at all for predatory or inappropriate behaviour.

They include a Cleveland Police officer who contacted a female member of the public he met during the course of his duties, to whom he made a comment over text about “the size of her breasts” before trying to pursue “an improper relationship”.

Even in cases where it was unclear what discipline the officers faced, a grim picture is still painted of the culture in policing's dark recesses.

In such investigations, officers were found to have distributed extreme pornography, targeted vulnerable women for sexual purposes and stalked others.

'Highly sexualised culture'

Campaigners and policing insiders say The Telegraph’s findings add to a growing body of evidence that police misconduct proceedings are not fit for purpose.

Sue Fish, the former chief constable of Nottinghamshire Police, who has been outspoken about sexism within the profession, said she was “unsurprised but deeply angry”.

“That is the tip of the iceberg - actually getting to a misconduct hearing - the number of things that don’t get past any threshold, get any investigation, never get reported,” she said.

“It paints a worrying, mildly terrifying picture.”

She suggested the problem was rooted in policing being “a macho profession” with a “highly sexualised culture”, where misconduct panels were too ready to listen to an accused officers’ colleagues singing their praises while victims were marginalised.

“It fails and continues to fail,” she said of the police disciplinary regime.

Harriet Wistrich, founder of the Centre for Women's Justice, said: “The police leadership really need to get a grip on this and create a zero tolerance culture for such misogyny, or we will have yet more high-profile cases where serving officers are found to have carried out the most appalling crimes of sexual violence against women.”

Deniz Uğur, deputy director of End Violence Against Women Coalition, said: “The outcomes of these misconduct investigations shed a light on an institutional culture which enables officers to evade accountability for abuse.

“It is clear that core processes around the handling of misconduct investigations are inconsistent and need root-and-branch reform. The institution of policing is badly failing women.”

'Nobody is above the law'

Chief Constable Craig Guildford, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for misconduct, said: “The vast majority of police officers and staff fulfil their duties in serving the public to the highest standard, but we recognise that there is a tiny minority who conduct themselves in a way which grossly undermines public trust and confidence in policing.

"We will investigate incidences of misconduct and take robust action where necessary.

“It is down to everyone in policing to maintain the highest standards of integrity and professionalism, and to report any colleagues who fall short of those standards.

“We recognise that if an offender is in a position of power, it can be a barrier to a victim reporting. We need to make sure that strong processes are in place so that victims have the confidence to come forward.

“All forces have a dedicated team which investigates complaints against officers. These departments work to strict guidelines, run confidential reporting phone lines for both the public and colleagues to raise concerns and are regularly independently inspected.

"Additionally, offences which are especially serious must be referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, who will make a decision as to whether to independently investigate. Where an officer faces allegations of gross misconduct, the case is heard by a panel led by an independent legally qualified chair.

"Officers will face criminal investigation and will be dealt with directly based upon the evidence presented, as nobody is above the law.”

#UK #Wales #England #North Ireland #Police misconduct #Rape culture #Racism within law enforcement #Police don’t protect women

[liverpoollomo]

Oilseed Rape. Holga 135BC.

Fields near me turn yellow at this time of year as crops of rapeseed flower. I braved hayfever to get these shots. I will always be grateful for antihistamines.

#liverpool #merseyside #north west england #liverpoollomo #liverpool lomo #lomo #lomography #analogue photography #film photography #lofi photography #holga #holga 135 #holga135bc #plastic camera #plastic lens #toy camera #vignette #vignetting #rapeseed #oilseed rape #agriculture #farming #film is not dead #don't think just shoot

[aisphotostuff]

Kent's High Weald AONB... by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Stunning countryside and beautiful fields of yellow & green as you drive towards Chiddingstone Village

#rape seed #Yellow #kentish yellow #hedges #hedgerows #Trees #Fields #kent fields #english fields #england #english #english landscapes #farming #weald #the weald #kent weald #high weald #britain #british #AONB #spring #spring in kent #rural #rural Kent #uk #uk counties #counties #countryside #walks #Kent

[tenth-sentence]

In that year police chose not to prosecute 25 per cent of rapes reported to them in England.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quote #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #80s #1980s #20th century #police incompetence #rape #england #prosecution