Guardian article here

A 16-year-old girl in Cornwall was repeatedly called a “slapper” because she had a large bust; she eventually had a breast reduction in the hope that the bullying would stop. A 14-year-old girl in Essex endured months of being called a “slag” and a “skank” and contemplated suicide; one day about 30 teenagers set on her, pulling her top down and exposing her breasts. She was beaten up so badly she was in hospital for three days. A 16-year-old schoolboy was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, and another was charged for filming the attack and distributing the pictures on his mobile phone.

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Sarah, 17, was bullied by a group of boys as soon as she started secondary school. “I was called names like ’slut’ and ‘whore’ - those were terms most boys used against girls,” she says. “I was shy and I wore clothes that covered me up, and a group of boys would always ask me to take off my jumper, open up my shirt a bit, or tell me I should be wearing skirts so they could see my legs. A group of boys would grab me in corridors - it was embarrassing and I felt disgusting, but I couldn’t do anything back. I just froze until they left. There were other girls they would touch too.”

More to say about this later.

Anthony Barron, rapist of female children, has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of a total of 89 offences, including rape and attempted rape, of at least ten girls, who were as young as 3. He made video and photographs of some of these assaults.

The mother of a four-year-old who was one of his victims said: “He came across as really nice, genuine, charming. A really nice person, is the only way to put it.

“[He appeared] caring and interested in how the children were doing, in some ways my welfare as well, after my husband and I separated.”

We are accustomed to hearing how children are ‘groomed’ by sexual predators, but it is rarely discussed how adults are also ‘groomed’.  Grooming is the emotional manipulation of minors for sexual purpose. But men who rape children very often have to gain the trust of adult parents before they are able to access our children, and to do this they apply the same manipulation tactics. Not coincidentally these same tactics are very often used by men who rape adult women, in fact these tactics are condoned as authentic seduction methods when used on adult women.  Seduction is the emotional manipulation of another person for sexual purpose.  A mans success with this manipulation marks him as a ‘proper’ man, a real ‘ladykiller’. Adult women in a vulnerable emotional state, after a break up for example, are seen as ‘fair game’ and desirable targets for male manipulation/seduction.

Robert Greene’s book, The Art Of Seduction, contains the following chapers (quotes are from the website):

Choose The Right Victim

“Study your prey thoroughly.. The right victims are those for whom you can fill a void.. They are often isolated or unhappy, or can be easily made so.”

Create a False Sense Of Security - Approach Indirectly

“If you are too direct too early on, you risk stirring up a resistance.. Haunt at the periphary of your target’s life - approach through a third party.. Lull the target into feeling secure, then strike.”

Create a Need - Stir Anxiety & Discontent

“Tension and disharmony must be instilled in your target’s minds. Stir within them feelings of discontent.. The feelings of inadequacy that you create will give you space to insinuate yourself.. Pain and anxiety are the proper precursors to pleasure. “

Use the Demonic Power of Words to Sow Confusion

“The trick to making them listen is to say what they want to hear, to fill their ears with whatever is pleasant to them. This is the essence of seductive language.”

Isolate the Victim

“An isolated person is weak.. Give them the sense of being marginalized.. Lure the seduced into your lair where nothing is familiar.”

Take a look round the huge number of mens dating and seduction guides and you’ll see the same language over and over, the language of warfare and hunting. Male sexuality is overwhelmingly defined in popular culture as predatory. How can we as women trust any men when we know this, who can we trust when over and over men we thought were nice, genuine, and charming, are exposed as rapists and child molesters?

Christine Barron, the ex wife of the above child rapist, said:

I’m finding it terribly difficult to equate it with the man I knew. He loved children and children loved him. He wasn’t that kind of man as far as I knew. My family are shocked, I’m shocked.

Everybody thought they could trust him. He could be so charming, but obviously there was more to it than that.

Video made for Amnesty International, in which Patrick Stewart relates some of his own experiences as the child in an abusive relationship, where his father would beat his mother, and calls on the UK government to take violence against women as seriously as it takes smoking, drink driving, and violence against children.

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Two British Fathers 4 Justice activists were arrested as they protested at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC yesterday.
The men, wearing Captain America and Batman costumes, had scaled the memorial and unfurled a banner which read: “For the Fathers of the Nation: Fathers 4 Justice has arrived.”

from the Independent

More on this from Cruellablog: Return Of The Fuckwits.

A man who sexually abused babies and children, walked out of court with a three-year community rehabilitation order.  Michael Porter admitted to sexual assaults on 13 children, over 24 occasions, over the past fifteen years, who knows how many other occasions there were, how many other children this man terrorised.  He was regarded as a respectable member of the Jehovahs Witnesses in Portishead and Clevedon, and used this position to win the trust of parents and get close to the children he abused.

Judge Tom Crowther is the man responsible for this sentence, described as ludicrous by this male terrorists own sister,  Tina Hughes.  She said:

 ”He just took my brother’s side completely and believed that all he needed was a bit more therapy.”

“I am absolutely disgusted. He should not have walked free.

“He has lost nothing. We have to tell the victims we have got no closure. He is an evil person. He is not human.”

Michael Porter -

A man who raped and killed a lesbian woman, has recieved a life sentence for her murder.  Matthew Doman claimed they had had consensual sex and that she had died accidentally after she asked him to asphyxiate her with a plastic bag.  Robert Juckes QC, prosecuting, told the jury:

“Naomi Phipps was a lesbian who had no intimate interest in men”

It seems Doman had developed an obsession with the woman, even going so far as to plant drugs at her house then calling the police, which led to a suspension from her job as a prison officer.

 A man repeatedly smashed a woman in the face and head with a hammer.   The 46 year old woman was walking her dog when she was attacked from behind.  A detective on the case says:

“We don’t know why this woman was targeted and we don’t know who this man is.

Here’s a clue - she was targeted because she is a woman and he is just another guy who gets his kicks from hurting women.