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dreamer_easyIn Sydney, hundreds of men are being raped each year, often after their drinks have been spiked.
In New South Wales, rape law reform continues: "Under NSW's new laws, a person can be found guilty of sexual assault if they did not make "reasonable" efforts to establish the other person had consented voluntarily without the influence of intoxication, coercion or threats... the onus would now be on the accused to show he had reasonable grounds to believe the alleged victim had consented."
In Australia's neighbour Indonesia, Female Genital Mutilation continues.
And in another neighbouring country, Malaysia, where abortion is illegal and therefore prohibitively expensive, women are using abortion pills, despite concern about risk.
In the US, Native American women who are raped lack crisis services and justice; Amnesty International is calling on the government to fully fund the Violence Against Women Act to redress this, and ask to you write the White House an email.
Anne Manne discusses the intersection between pornography and sexual violence.
In New South Wales, rape law reform continues: "Under NSW's new laws, a person can be found guilty of sexual assault if they did not make "reasonable" efforts to establish the other person had consented voluntarily without the influence of intoxication, coercion or threats... the onus would now be on the accused to show he had reasonable grounds to believe the alleged victim had consented."
In Australia's neighbour Indonesia, Female Genital Mutilation continues.
And in another neighbouring country, Malaysia, where abortion is illegal and therefore prohibitively expensive, women are using abortion pills, despite concern about risk.
In the US, Native American women who are raped lack crisis services and justice; Amnesty International is calling on the government to fully fund the Violence Against Women Act to redress this, and ask to you write the White House an email.
Anne Manne discusses the intersection between pornography and sexual violence.
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Date: 2008-02-04 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-04 12:34 am (UTC)My generation grew up watching stuff like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and hearing about kids getting hurt acting out Power Ranger fight scenes. As grownups, we're getting sick of hearing that TV 'makes' us do these things, because it didn't happen to most of us. I think there's a generation of parents coming up that will be better at turning off the TV and/or talking to their kids about what they see on it, and making them into healthy consumers of fiction.
When it's adults or teenagers acting this stuff out, at an age when they should know better, you can't really point a finger at parents. Or can you? Are the boys who coerced a girl into being humiliated on camera just kids who managed, out of sheer luck, to survive into puberty without getting hurt imitating action movies? They didn't learn the lesson earlier, and now they're old enough to be interested in reenacting fictional sex without considering the consequences.