The municipal leadership of Cologne responded to the gang sexual assault of over 80 women with a predictably victim-blaming suggestion:
The crisis management team said prevention measures should include a code of conduct for young women and girls, and Mayor Reker said the existing code of conduct will be updated online.
The suggested code of conduct includes maintaining an arm’s length distance from strangers, to stick within your own group, to ask bystanders for help or to intervene as a witness, or to inform the police if you are the victim of such an assault.
Yes, those stupid broads. Instead of observing a code of conduct, they went and provoked the rapists by their lewd running around unaccompanied and their obnoxious getting into the personal space of the innocent attackers. Of course, the rapists were forced to defend themselves from these scary women by extending their arms and trying to maintain distance. It’s not their fault if the stupid women ran into their hands with their nasty orifices!
I think it’s time to give out awards to Cologne rapists who valiantly beat back an assault of the terrifying women who can’t even observe a simple code of conduct.
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Oh well. Mustn’t say anything “Islamophobic.” Besides, the gentlemen involved were drunk, so they couldn’t be Muslims. Oh. Well, if they were Muslims, they must be assimilating and that’s good. Let’s all be appropriately multicultural and ignore the whole thing — except for the women, who had better start assimilating.
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I’d say western culture has already started to swing back towards a 1950s model of sex and gender roles (with a new wrinkle or two but basically it’s a very old model).
I’ve been expecting it but I have to say I’m surprised at how it’s coming about with female politicians and supposed feminists using muslims and non-white (brown and black) men to browbeat ordinary women back into line, or else.
I wouldn’t have predicted it happening in this precise way in a million years but it seems to be what’s happening.
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I could just as easily hear the exact same words coming out of the crisis management team’s mouths if the attackers happened to be ethnically German.
The multiculturalism is just another pretext to level dumb “codes of conduct” at women.
The suggested code of conduct includes maintaining an arm’s length distance from strangers, to stick within your own group, to ask bystanders for help or to intervene as a witness, or to inform the police if you are the victim of such an assault.
This is literally every common sense thing women learn to do from the time they are young. Now we just have to wait for the recommendations to carry pepper spray, whistles and their keys between their knuckles.
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Not true. Look at the howling over the mattress lady and the deathly silence over this horrible event. The “ethnically German” student has seen his reputation destroyed and his future career irreparably damaged while nobody told the mattress lady to keep distance or modify her behavior in any way. And of all the feminist websites and groups that supported the mattress lady, not a single one is mentioning Cologne, let alone showing any solidarity with the victims.
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I was talking about Cologne, and packs of drunk men, and you’re talking about an American campus and acquaintance rape.
That said, that shit isn’t part of orientation anymore on American campuses? I still get semi regular email forwards from my mom’s aunt about the dangers of roofies and dudes who hide under your car. (I block her entirely now.) The whistle was given to me at campus orientation. We all learned about the effects of alcohol primarily so people wouldn’t die of alcohol poisoning. There’s also this cultural thing where “nobody should judge me when I’m super intoxicated, especially if I’m not hurting anyone” that they feel should be extended to women as well as men. Apparently, before I was born, people didn’t judge others who got behind a wheel of a car intoxicated. I stared at the guest of an roommate who’d gotten so drunk his puke ran out of the window down one story of the building, and the roommate snapped, “He’s sick!” as if he didn’t induce it in himself and didn’t drink habitually.
Essentially though, I think this is a case of “not me” and “not where I am” influencing the non-response, when it would be very easy to place yourself in these women’s situations.
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“Shakesville” has a current post on the Cologne attacks, but McEwan spends most of the post urging readers not to jump to conclusions about whether the attackers were “immigrants,” because she her main concern is that the attacks will be used as an excuse for “anti-immigrant hatred.”
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Yes, I saw that. I now wish she said nothing at all. What a stinky hypocrite that woman is. She publishes a post a day for years about the need to believe the victims of sexual assault. But the moment the victims say something she doesn’t want to hear, out goes the trust for the victims.
I don’t mind people believing anything they want but I hate the hypocrisy.
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In the world Snakesville inhabits (all of it) race trumps sex.
What do you think that “intersectionality” is about beyond telling white women to put other people’s needs first?
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In the world Snakesville inhabits (all of it) race trumps sex
Snakesville? Heh. Not really. If it’s some special racist white woman like Sarah Palin, she will die on that hill and intone piously about protecting all women’s dignity when somebody says something mean.
What do you think that “intersectionality” is about beyond telling white women to put other people’s needs first?
Weirdly, this framing disappears women who aren’t white. I would like to actually go out and celebrate New Years without worrying about roving gangs of men who assault women and shoot firecrackers into the crowd. It hardly matters if I’m white/not white/Muslim/not Muslim in that situation.
If I were in charge and could wave a wand, I’d institute curfews for all of the men, because men in general don’t take street harassment seriously, unless it’s someone harassing “their women”, so let them deal with a restriction on their fun and freedom and know what it feels like to be collectively punished.
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I guess a slutwalk with baseball bats is in order… Just an idea for the next carnival in Germany…
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Last year, when I saw the photos of very happy and very drunk people lying all over the place during German carnivals, I did wonder how all this was going to be explained to migrants. If even I was shocked imagine somebody from Afghanistan or Somalia.
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Were you shocked apart from thinking of how immigrants from those places may see it?
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I’m from Ukraine and I never saw such a number of drunk people lying around passed out in public places. And we are supposed to be Europe’s big drinkers.
Actually, I never saw a person I could identify as drunk while I lived in Ukraine at all. I was so sheltered that I had no idea how people got drunk and what the consequences might be. Had to discover it on my own at the age of 23, and was quite surprised. 🙂
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\ Last year, when I saw the photos of very happy and very drunk people lying all over the place during German carnivals
I was extremely surprised to hear that. But they do it only on a few carnivals, not all the time like in FSU, right? Do you think it lets normally very proper and stiff Germans not go insane from over-strictness, but take care of their psychological health by taking a day off?
\ Actually, I never saw a person I could identify as drunk while I lived in Ukraine at all. I was so sheltered that I had no idea how people got drunk and what the consequences might be.
Remember when I was too sheltered to notice violence on the street, let alone experiencing it being directed against me in the 90ies? Now our roles have switched. 🙂 I saw quite a few drunk people. One of my vivid childhood memories, when I was less than 6 years old, is about being afraid to exit into street from подъезда since our drunk neighbor was blocking the way, as he lay on the stairs. So I waited for my late grandfather to exit with me. In our подъезд, we also had an old-looking alcoholic woman with alcoholic mother in her 90ies. The mother never came out, but her daughter did and did things like stopping cars on the road in half-nude shape. Our neighbors, who visited their flat, said there was shit on walls and we were afraid about her forgetting something on the stove and causing an explosion. In the same building, one подъезд away from ours, was a very tall alcoholic man, feared by me, who spent a few years in jail after making another person lose an eye in a drunk fight. And there were more, less bad cases. Till this day I hate people getting drunk, if it’s not a bit of wine but a stage in which effects of drinking already become visible to a naked eye.
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“Do you think it lets normally very proper and stiff Germans not go insane from over-strictness, but take care of their psychological health by taking a day off?”
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The art of heavy drinking
From the ancient world to today, artists have been drawn to the subject of boozing and carousing. Alastair Sooke investigates a long – but overlooked – love affair.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160105-the-art-of-heavy-drinking
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