By Jessica • 16 years ago

London lawyer says raped girl was “glad for the attention”

Well this is just lovely.

A teenage girl who claims she was gang raped by three 13-year-old schoolboys was overweight and would have been “glad of the attention�, a barrister told a jury.
The 16-year-old and her friend told a court the boys mugged them for their phones then raped them repeatedly in a park while filming the ordeal on a mobile.
But lawyer Sheilagh Davies, acting for one of the defendants, said the girls consented to sex “maybe to gain attention, maybe to gain affection�.

Davies also told the jury that the girl had “slimmed down a lotâ€? since the rape and that she “may well have been glad of the attention.â€? Excuse me while I go bang my ...

Well this is just lovely.

A teenage girl who claims she was gang raped by three 13-year-old schoolboys was overweight and would have been “glad of the attention�, a barrister told a jury.
The 16-year-old and her ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

“Michelle Obama for President”

Along with Ann’s post of the Salon article about Michelle Obama, a post by Malena at Racewire also has some really good analysis.
She says:

Everybody’s been talking about Michelle Obama these days.
Since she announced her decision to leave her high-ranked job at the University of Chicago hospitals to join Barack Obama on the campaign, she’s had more time to make speeches and do interviews.
In the process, top journalists continue asking her to explain what it means for her husband Barack Obama to be a Black man running for presidency.
And every time, Mrs. Obama slam dunks the answer and offers stronger race analysis than Mr. Barack. Overall, she uses less political correctness to interrogate the issues. And ...

Along with Ann’s post of the Salon article about Michelle Obama, a post by Malena at Racewire also has some really good analysis.
She says:

Everybody’s been talking about Michelle Obama these days.
Since she announced her ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

This takes more than courage.

From WIMN’s Voices: A Group Blog on Women Media and News written by, Sonali Kolhatkar:

Twenty eight year old intrepid Afghan MP, Malalai Joya, has just been suspended from Parliament for comparing warlords in power to donkeys. Joya is the youngest and most outspoken member of Parliament and has survived 4 assassination attempts for denouncing warlords, many of whom were funded at various times by the US government in the fight against the Soviets (1980s) and the Taliban (post-9-11).

This story is amazing. Read more here.

From WIMN’s Voices: A Group Blog on Women Media and News written by, Sonali Kolhatkar:

Twenty eight year old intrepid Afghan MP, Malalai Joya, has just been suspended from Parliament for comparing warlords in power to donkeys. Joya ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

Summer reading!

So my three year stint at San Francisco State is slowly (time is moving like a slug) coming to a close. I will soon have an MA in Women’s Studies (assuming I finish my thesis) and can then work at the local grocery store. Just kidding, I will be working with Youth Media Council starting this summer and I am very very excited. If you are not familiar with their work, please, get familiar.
So the point of this post isn’t just so you can congratulate me on massive quantities of debt and my phone being shut off for a degree that will never get me a job (just kidding if anyone from the WS program at ...

So my three year stint at San Francisco State is slowly (time is moving like a slug) coming to a close. I will soon have an MA in Women’s Studies (assuming I finish my thesis) ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

Transgender man and wife jailed in Pakistan.

Every once in a while you come across a story and for whatever reason it makes you just start crying at your computer.
A Pakistani court has arrested a couple after “figuring out” that the husband, was actually transgender, thusly making him not a “real” man and them a same-sex couple, which is against the law.

The judge said the pair had lied over the husband’s gender, and a sex change operation the husband had had to become a man had not been done properly.
The couple told the court that they had got married so that the wife could avoid an arranged marriage.

The article says he married his cousin to protect her from an arranged marriage. I hate when they ...

Every once in a while you come across a story and for whatever reason it makes you just start crying at your computer.
A Pakistani court has arrested a couple after “figuring out” that the husband, was ...

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