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Category Archives: Rape
How Australia’s Cronulla Race Riots Helped Stop Muslim Grooming Of Girls
While the British passively accepted Pakistani immigrants raping hundreds of their girls, Australians fought back and stopped the mass rapes. Helen Andrews writes: In the early 2000s, Sydney was rocked by a series of gang rapes. Victims were ordinary Australian … Continue reading
Rape & The Arab-Israeli Conflict
One of the good things I’ve repeatedly heard about Israel’s armed forces is that they rarely rape, but according to this Washington Post article, Palestinians have rarely raped Israelis (until the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel). Some forces … Continue reading
Revisiting the Brock Turner Case
From the New Yorker: * In 2016, Brock Turner [white], a former swimmer at Stanford University, was convicted of sexually assaulting [fingering] an unconscious [asian] woman outside of a fraternity party. Two passersby saw the nineteen-year-old freshman thrusting upon an … Continue reading
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The return of the mostly peaceful West Indian Day Parade (9-5-22)
00:25 West Indian Day Parade 09:00 Is New York’s Labor Day Carnival Experiencing Cultural Extinction? 20:00 Is Eric Weinberg Hollywood’s Most Prolific Predator? 35:00 Elliott Blatt joins 1:02:00 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia 1:09:00 … Continue reading
Assaulted at sea – and we may never know why (10-14-21)
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LAT: Porn star Ron Jeremy charged with four counts of sexual assault
From the Los Angeles Times: Ron Jeremy, one of the most iconic figures in the adult entertainment industry, has been charged with sexually assaulting four women in West Hollywood since 2014, prosecutors said Tuesday. Jeremy, whose legal name is Ronald … Continue reading
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Greece: Woman goes to refugee solidarity event, gets gang-raped by Muslim migrants
From Grumpy Elder: A 23-year-old Greek woman and her boyfriend relived scenes of horror in the court of Thessaloniki last week. The woman was gang-raped by three migrants from Syria and Algeria more than a year ago. …the female victim … Continue reading
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LAT: Winfrey highlights story of black woman raped by white men
From the Los Angeles Times: Oprah Winfrey’s barnstormer of a speech at the Golden Globes highlighted the story of a black Alabama woman who was raped by six white men in 1944. Winfrey, in speaking of the victims of sexual … Continue reading
Should Rapists Have Pride?
Imagine a guy who says: I was born a rapist, but–no no, don’t worry, don’t freak out. I’m not a practicing rapist, thanks to years of the preemptive conversion therapy literally blasted at me from every public institution in the … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘The Glare Varies for Two Actors on Hollywood’s Awards Trail’
I wonder why. Must be racism. New York Times: Jeannie Suk Gersen, a professor at Harvard Law School who teaches criminal law and sexual harassment law, said the reason could be far simpler: Mr. Parker’s case was criminal and Mr. … Continue reading
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