Down with Women!

I'm just reading these heartening statistics in 'The Week':
14% of Britons say it is 'acceptable' for a man to hit his wife or girlfriend if she is 'wearing revealing or sexy clothes in public', the same percentile agree that it is acceptable for a man to hit his partner if she is ' nagging or constantly moaning at him'.
21% of women and 18% of men say that rape victims (sorry i just almost puked there with disgust) should be held partly responsible if they are attacked while wearing revealing clothes.
33% of men and women would hold a rape victim partly responsible if she had previously flirted with her attacker.
It makes you understand why the trial of that cabby a) took so long to take place, despite numerous complaints against him reported to the police, and b) his bullshit stories were taken to be true by the police until they found his 'rape kit' including a selection of little bits of paper in which he had written out scenarios whereby he was being challenged about his activities and made up little responses in defence, you couldn't make up that someone could be that stupid? and yet, up against a young professional woman who has the bloody GALL to go out on a friday night and expect to be driven home without being molested, he was repeatedly taken at face-value. Many of the reports to police were outright dismissed because until a new law introduced last year(in which rape allegations have to be accepted as true unless proven otherwise), the policemen who interviewed a woman making charges of rape, had the authority to decide whether they believed her or not, and usually, it is not.
It's like a rapist's playground out there. Imagine that a rapist can do what they like, with almost guaranteed assurance that they will get away with it. Especially where drugging is concerened as with the taxi berk, as if the victim can't remember the rape, they are almost unanimously dismissed.
I know you might hear about the taxi prick and think 'why the hell did they take champagne off him?' but that is not the point. You do not EXPECT some docile looking middle-aged man to be a serial rapist, you put a level of trust into licensed taxi drivers, you just do, you say to your family and friends 'get a taxi won't you?', or 'don't worry i'm getting a taxi' as a byword for taking the safest option, and if the driver was saying they'd won the lottery and all that bollocks and not taking no for an answer about giving you some champagne, i can imagine you might just feel sorry for him, or even pleased for him, and have a sip to be polite, it's not hard to imagine.
These women should NOT have to justify themselves. People should be prostrate at their feet begging forgiveness from them for not acting sooner and directly endangering the 100+ women they think he has molested since he was first arrested and bailed. He told the police, and the court that HE was raped by one of the women, and it all happened cause he's too nice, after all, all his mates say he is. UNBELIEVABLE.
clearly there's too much anger to express here. As for the hitting a woman if she's dressed sexily, what does that even mean? a miniskirt? a vest? who determines it? It's so meaningless and ridiculous, it says so much about people and their jealousy, and fear, and their daily mail anger at women in general, out there, working and being independent, it still makes lots of people scared and angry. The daily mail had a headline on Friday about recession madness, obviously one was to do with asylum seekers, you've gotta squeeze that in, the other was the FURY that there are talks of a raise in maternity pay, from the government min of £117 a week. IT'S MADNEEESSSSS!!!!!!! These women, they just LOVE getting pregnant! They do it FOR the money, it's not in any way difficult to look after a new born baby, and live off a less-than part-time wage! The whole time getting no sleep, and worrying about needing the money of full-time work and not wanting to leave you tiny baby at home. And from the sounds of it, wearing a bhurka and being constantly charming, in case your husband/partner needs to give you a bit of a slap.
Today in the Guardian they were saying that the ongoing proposition of raising womens' salaries closer to the 21% average pay gap between them and men, (37.5% for part time jobs) and this being immediately batted down on the grounds that we shouldn't talk about such things during a recession... isn't it the exact time we should talk about these things?? when we're all poor and we're all in the same boat, where unemployment and tensions are running high, isn't equality the only thing we have left, pulling together and making stuff better, giving women a go at making a decent wage and having a good job, after the men have fucked it all up?

Maaaaaaan, monday ra-a-n-t, that's what reading the paper cover to cover before 9 o clock does for you. Had crazy dreams all night, Joe I dreamed that you lived in a hutch?! I was talking to you and you were replying from inside the hutch, it must be cause i haven't seen you in ages, and my brain can't remember you so it converted you into a hutch!! (Or it may be an old memory of Joe in a jar?!)

Saw Herring at the weekend, it's inspired me to share some of my old diaries with you on this very blog! Don't get too excited! I'm sure they are shit, and pretty depressing, if that's the case I will pretend i never said this, but i know there are some funny lists in them, of various things... like reasons why i hate people and stuff... just like nowadays all in all!