Quickies
Quickies: Gaming organizer ousted, Larry Willmore, and the biodiversity of Disney
- Prominent gaming organizer ousted following sexual harassment allegations – From Will.
- An investigation of the biodiversity of Disney sidekicks – “The ecology of Disney is a strange and unknowable realm, and nowhere is that more clear than in examining its animal sidekicks.”
- Transgender inmate can sue prison over rape – “A transgender inmate who was sexually assaulted in prison may pursue claims that prison officials risked her safety by putting her in a cell with a rapist, a federal judge ruled.” From Ray.
- Larry Wilmore on Bill Cosby: How many more women need to come forward? – That’s right, on the second night of his new show, he decided to address the controversy around Bill Cosby. From Criticaldragon1177.
The way the first story is written, he didn’t get into too much trouble when he was just harassing cis-women, but harassing a transwoman got him into trouble. Why couldn’t he have been ousted for harassing women earlier?
(I’m ashamed to admit that the unfortunate phrasing that went through my mind was that he found a victim with the balls to stand up to him.)
In my experience it takes about 3 women coming forward before these allegations are taken seriously. They stood up for themselves, they just stood alone and were ignored.
Amanda,
Over at the “Larry Wilmore on Bill Cosby” thread, Some guy going by the name of Razerzpeed, left a comment in reply to me, where he claimed that 45% of women lie about being raped. Off course he didn’t cite a source for that statistic. I have a feeling he just pulled it out of thin air.
I suspect a position down and back from thin air.
Mrmisconception,
I would imagine. I try not to use a lot of graphic language through, to avoid sounding low class.
Well, according to a comment by a user named “John Galt” I found via Google:
“Steve Moxon in his book ‘The woman racket’ quotes a statistic from 1985 in which 45% of all rape claims were marked as ‘no crime’ by UK police, which essentially means that after extensive investigation there was no evidence a crime occurred at all.”
From what I’ve read deciding that a rape claim is a “non crime” (or no crime) can happen when the report is made, by the officer taking the report, with zero investigation at all. So unless it is different in the UK that statistic is not only sickening but also almost totally useless.
I suspect that “John Galt” (someone voluntarily took that name?) decided that was what it meant because it fed his narrative without so much as a cursory amount of investigation, much like those officers taking rape threats; and it all comes full circle.
Unless it was Steve Moxon that claimed that, which actually makes it worse because it is in a book which should allow for more research then a simple internet comment.