Media Complaints
These are formal complaints that have been submitted to the media.
- Response to Channel 5’s “One Night with my Ex” (1/22/2018)
- Michael Beck: Why labelling men who kill as ‘non-violen’t is irresponsible journalism (8/27/2017)
- .@perthnow suggests child rape is the same as a ‘sexual relationship’ (8/10/2017)
- Why are sex robots which allow men to simulate rape a bad thing (8/1/2017)
- Valid excuses for fatal male violence: love (3/29/2017)
- Man arrested for racially-aggravated sexual assault. BBC headline gets confused with a carry-on film. (1/30/2017)
- Don’t be her voice: a response to the silencing of women in #behervoice (11/29/2016)
- The @BBC remain incapable of correctly identifying child rape. (10/24/2016)
- “Low level” sexual harassment must be addressed to avoid escalation into criminal abuse” (9/13/2016)
- How to talk to a woman wearing headphones – on toxic masculinity and rape culture. (8/30/2016)
- The erasure of Claire and Charlotte Hart by the media (8/1/2016)
- Daily Mirror suggests femicide is a reasonable response to a ‘row’ (8/1/2016)
- The @BBC and the misuse of scare quotes (7/18/2016)
- CSE is not self-harm (6/29/2016)
- .@BBC misusing the term ‘child porn’. Again. (5/30/2016)
- #PredatoryPeacekeepers – the importance of naming the problem (content note) (5/29/2016)
- Predatory peacekeepers and child protection, time for the UN to think globally? ~ Campaign statement (5/28/2016)
- ‘Uniforms’ do not protect girls from sexual harassment in schools (4/15/2016)
- Jeremy Kyle (4/4/2016)
- “Why doesn’t she just leave?” 5 subtle ways women are blamed for experiencing domestic abuse (3/31/2016)
- Not ‘revenge porn’, but abuse: let’s call it image-based sexual abuse by @McGlynnClare & @erikarackley (3/9/2016)
- Hypocrisy of media in dealing with child sexual abuse (3/8/2016)
- .@ecotricity “responds” to concerns about their support for Julian Assange (2/14/2016)
- .@TheSun confuses rape with a “romp” (via @EverydaySexism) (2/12/2016)
- The lack of morality in the beautiful game (2/11/2016)
- Domestic abuse: Police ‘nearly overwhelmed’ by increase (12/16/2015)
- 25 November: UN Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (11/25/2015)
- Victim-blaming as daytime entertainment on The Jeremy Kyle Show (11/13/2015)
- .@BBCthree response to our complaint about #sexontrial – complete with victim blaming. (11/11/2015)
- “Is This Rape? Sex on Trial” – a critique (11/5/2015)
- #sexontrial : Our formal complaint to @BBCthree (11/4/2015)
- angry at #sexontrail (11/4/2015)
- Believing the unbelievable (9/1/2015)
- “1 year old pet servived being shot in the mouth (8/31/2015)
- There’s no allegedly about this rape. (8/15/2015)
- Oh captain, my captain. (8/11/2015)
- Sanctioned Jobseekers With Mental Health Problems Are Not ‘Vulnerable’, Says DWP (8/10/2015)
- Ted Heath, Jonathan King and the role of The Spectators… (8/8/2015)
- “Witch hunts”, howling mobs” and “Hitler’s dreams”: how a rational journalist reacts to police investigating historic child sexual abuse. (8/7/2015)
- Witch hunt is the stuff of Hitlers dreams (8/7/2015)
- Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly (8/5/2015)
- The Chivalrous Violation of Women’s Bodies by @WomenCanSee (8/2/2015)
- Roll up, roll up and gawp at Jack’s victims (7/30/2015)
- We’ve reported @ fucktyler for inciting harassment and threats of violence. (7/28/2015)
- Dapper Laughs & the demand to be “educated” about rape culture (7/27/2015)
- Rape is never a “victimless crime” (7/19/2015)
- Richard Dawkins, Julian Assange and the case of the missing dictionary (7/17/2015)
- Victim Blaming a mother (7/14/2015)
- Things which constitute assault: drugging your girlfriend (7/12/2015)
- The faceless woman (7/10/2015)
- Tired of Being Blamed
- So confused – is my husband abusing me(content notice)
- Whatever the details are, it’s always the perpetrators fault
- Severe Victim Blaming
- Random Thoughts.
- Feeling guilty about being sexually assaulted
- Was I raped
- I didn’t say no
- Response to Channel 5’s “One Night with my Ex”
- Silenced
- Family is like a terrorist cell
- Boyfriend doesn’t believe I was assaulted
- My so called friend
- I got raped, boyfriend said it’s my fault.
- 29 years ago but it feels like yesterday
- Long time Ago… (content note for rape)
- victim not recognized (content note for rape)
- Domestic abuse
- im so confused. (content note for rape)
- Truth
- was it rape?
- Blaming and shaming
- Angry at my boyfriend’s attitude towards my experience of sexual violence
- Narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, crazymaking via Twitter
- I was sexually assaulted by a coworker
- Is this rape or am I overreacting?
- Man behind the mask
- I think I was raped
- The Harvey Weinstein Allegations
- #KevinSpacey: When is an apology not an apology
- Is it unconsented if he was my boyfriend
- been assaulted by ex. friend
- I don’t know whether this was rape and I want a verdict so I can stop asking myself and trying to remember.
- I think they all knew and it had happened before
- Not too sure what it was that happened?
- “Why a gendered approach to supporting women experiencing homelessness is essential”
- Is this abuse
- if it wasnt rape, what was it?
- Michael Beck: Why labelling men who kill as ‘non-violen’t is irresponsible journalism
- Am I overreacting?
- Was this Rape
- What do I call this?
- He stole my virginity
- who’s crazy?
- .@perthnow suggests child rape is the same as a ‘sexual relationship’
- My Boyfriend Blames Me…
- No one beleives me
- I said No
- IDK What To Think
- I don’t know if it was rape
- I consented to protected sex only
- long story
- my boyfriend blames me for being raped
- I was robbed.
- I am still so angry, I can’t breathe sometimes
- Was it rape? I feel responsible and guilty for not seeing through it sooner.
- Smith
- Why are sex robots which allow men to simulate rape a bad thing
- My partner was raped and I think he needs help!
- enough already.
- I was raped when drunk and my husband is blaming me.
- He was 21, I was 16
- I didn’t think this would actually happen to me
- Boyfriend raped? Do I tell him I think he was raped?
- He said I lead him on
- I said no like five times to my husbands best friend but I didn’t stop him
- The need for care when sharing images of missing children
- A woman and 2 children are murdered. The media reports about John Lennon’s former flat.
- I couldn’t bring myself to accept that I was raped
- I said no but still let it happen to get it over with
- Survivors Voices
- catalyst for change by @northern_thirty
- Sulking and drunk pressure mistake
- Was it rape?
- is it assault? my boyfriend is blaming me for “being weak”.
- Is It Rape?
- Was I raped?
- I said NO but it didn’t help
- Looking To Be Found (content note)
- Marital Rape is Real (content note)
- I don’t know if I was raped
- Was i technically raped?
- What did he do to me? What do i do?? (content note)
- Beginning to recover
- Raped 8 years ago…and again three weeks ago?
- Slept with a dude off Tinder. Stopped sleeping with him. Got stalked, now he assaulted next guy
- not completely sure if it was rape
- No Became Yes, and I Didn’t Know
- Rape? What happened to me?
- My ex hangouts with my rapist.
- Was it my fault? Was it even rape?
- Was I raped, even if I didn’t say “no”
- was what happened wrong?
- The Games People Play
- No longer silent
- I’m still not sure how to explain
- Am I to blame?
- Scrap the “rape clause” and the “family cap” on social security payments.
- The “rape clause” – responses from women’s service providers
- What happened here?
- It was ok, till it wasn’t anymore.
- Was this rape?
- The reality of male violence against women and girls. (Or, why the legal system is not fit for purpose)
- Valid excuses for fatal male violence: love
- Mustafa Bashir given no jail time for forcing his wife to drink bleach.
- Tax credit ‘rape clause’ legislation – our stance
- Tortured and silenced.
- Is he really a victim?
- Marriage and abuse (content note)
- Rape survivor; my story in photographs
- Sex abuse
- Struggling to cope
- I Didn’t Want To Do It
- His mother texted him saying “why did you get back together with her?”
- Adam Johnson: “besotted” and the implication of contributory negligence in child sexual abuse
- Marital Rape and Domestic Violence – sought help, found more pain
- Drunk and in a relationship (content note for rape)
- What did you do
- My husband doesnt believe me
- Marriage and Rape
- Don’t know what to do
- Domestic abuse/coercive Behaviour
- A very grey area
- inner child and abuse
- I fought racism and misogyny to become an MP. The fight is getting harder by Diane Abbott
- Victim Blaming
- Multiple sexual assaults
- Was i raped ?
- i was raped and my boyfriend blamed me for months
- I said no, but didn’t fight it hard enough (content note)
- Rape ruined me (content note for graphic description)
- Ongoing victim blaming (content note)
- anonymous (content note for child rape)
- Man arrested for racially-aggravated sexual assault. BBC headline gets confused with a carry-on film.
- Incredible guilt and shame (content note)
- confused (content note)
- I’m not sure how to cope (content note)
- Lulu
- Ms – a personal experience of victim blaming an 11 year old girl by defence QC
- I don’t know if I was raped
- Grey
- escaping
- I said no but he didn’t listen.
- My boyfriend accuses me of doing gross things when I actually did not when I was raped
- My Boyfriend Blames Me For My Rape
- My girlfriend blames me for my past sexual abuse
- I’m sorry I’m so weak
- I don’t know what to do now.
- Custody in Crisis – Family Courts enabling and supporting abusive fathers.
- Boyfriend raped and then cheated on me
- School
- Transforming a Victim Blaming Culture
- Don’t be her voice: a response to the silencing of women in #behervoice
- 16 ways to End Violence against Women and Girls
- Victim blaming
- Man convicted of owning 137 000 images of children being sexually abused is spared jail to start family
- Trapped
- this is what domestic violence is all about
- Follow up to – you blamed the wrong person
- My story
- Dealing with a not guilty verdict
- i am so tempted to blame my girlfriend, but i know very well it is wrong
- The murders of Clodagh Hawe and Megan Short.
- Raped And Blamed
- The @BBC remain incapable of correctly identifying child rape.
- My brother
- Trauma theories make oppressed people sick
- Protect n Serve Who?
- Toxic masculinity and rape culture (content note for rape)
- Walk in the woods
- I said no (content note)
- My ex fiancé blames me and accused me of lying about it
- End Demand campaign
- The Naming of Elena Ferrante
- You can’t escape your past, but you can walk away from victim blaming (content note for graphic depictions of rape)
- All victims need to be rescued
- I Think It Was Rape (content note)
- I got raped again and my boyfriend doesn’t care cause he says it’s my fault
- “Low level” sexual harassment must be addressed to avoid escalation into criminal abuse”
- Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence Homicides*: Sex Differences April 2012 – March 2015 (3 years)
- I cant tell my boyfriend that my friend assaulted me (content note)
- How to talk to a woman wearing headphones – on toxic masculinity and rape culture.
- The case of Nate Parker: on rape culture in Hollywood
- Let down by the system
- Was it rape? (content note)
- Perpetrator of child sexual abuse walks free from court
- A rape victim is jailed in order to force her to testify.
- The erasure of Claire and Charlotte Hart by the media
- “Rise in child sexual abuse cases threatens other policing”
- Daily Mirror suggests femicide is a reasonable response to a ‘row’
- The Representation of Women in the Media Matters
- John Nimmo is not a ‘troll’: Defining male violence online
- Raped for a second time, boyfriend does not believe me. (content note)
- Say No More To Child Abuse, Child Explotation and Domestic Violence
- Dani Mathers and the reality of intimate images shared without consent
- The @BBC and the misuse of scare quotes
- Violated
- Victim Blaming and speaking out
- CSE is not self-harm
- The context in which VAWG occurs
- Losing the man I love after revealing I was raped and blackmailed
- Being blamed for being assaulted
- Women, Media and Politics – #womenmp16
- two poems one to my ex husband and the other to all women who have been abuse all over the world
- Yet another victim blaming so-called ‘safety’ campaign.
- Neil Deller: Men who view images of children being sexually abused are high risk perpetrators
- Refusal to pay maintenance is a form of child abuse.
- The murder of Jo Cox
- Husband shames me for sexual assault but claims he doesn’t (content note for depiction of rape)
- bullying and manipulation and how unkind people can be
- abuse (content note for rape)
- The sentencing of Brock Turner is rape culture, but there is another issue at stake.
- The victim blaming of Amber Heard
- .@BBC misusing the term ‘child porn’. Again.
- #PredatoryPeacekeepers – the importance of naming the problem (content note)
- Predatory peacekeepers and child protection, time for the UN to think globally? ~ Campaign statement
- #predatorypeacekeeprs: Action to address Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children
- “What fathers think of their daughters boyfriends” meme is simply misogynistic
- What matters in life to me after my voice is being constantly denied by the public bodies …
- will abuse go from childhood abuse to domestic violence to institutional abuse
- Follow up to ‘No Justice = No Closure’
- No Justice = No Closure
- “Viewing illegal images does not cause harm or additional abuse” – Our response
- Have the police done their job properly
- Not My Shame
- chance encounters
- it’s a shame that the human rights act in this country are not adherred to by the public bodies who are supposed to look after the vulnerable person
- CPS never communicate with the victim
- It’s been 10 years and it still haunts me (content note for rape)
- Were you really ever my friend?
- my life with my rapist and the pain its caused me
- Ending self blame
- ‘Uniforms’ do not protect girls from sexual harassment in schools
- fighting for my babies, when no one fought for them or me!
- No Justice Still
- is it considered rape? (content note for graphic description)
- Endangered a child that does not exist
- why are police officers so cruel unkind uncaring and pretend to be someone else isn t that illegal
- Associated Press will no longer be using the term ‘child prostitute’
- 10 years…
- UN: “Sex with children is prohibited”
- I was assaulted and my friends won’t speak to me
- bullying hate crime police not being believed making out im crazy.
- Police abuse
- WE WILL NOT STAND BY WHEN UN SOLDIERS ABUSE, RAPE AND MURDER
- Jeremy Kyle
- No support for victims
- My Abuser is the One Everyone Believes
- “Why doesn’t she just leave?” 5 subtle ways women are blamed for experiencing domestic abuse
- Is it legal to reveal the identity of child victims of sexual abuse?
- Defining Consent: The Case of Jennifer Staines
- Man sentenced to jail on weekends for violent sexual assault
- You blamed the wrong person
- who’s at fault?
- How should rape be investigated
- Boyfriend believes I carry some blame, what to do?
- .@BBCSport confuses child sexual abuse with throwing a football game.
- Not ‘revenge porn’, but abuse: let’s call it image-based sexual abuse by @McGlynnClare & @erikarackley
- David Dinsmore, former Sun editor guilty of breaching Sexual Offences Act
- Hypocrisy of media in dealing with child sexual abuse
- Lack of support after assult by friend.
- Million Women Rise – #WhyWeRise
- Just another example – in Australia – relating to revenge porn & classic victim blaming
- Saying NO
- How I Feel
- I Said No He Kept Going
- “Who is Daniel Holtzclaw” : on media taking responsibility for supporting rape culture
- “2 dead in Warner Robins Valentine’s Day domestic dispute”
- .@ecotricity “responds” to concerns about their support for Julian Assange
- .@TheSun confuses rape with a “romp” (via @EverydaySexism)
- Things which are not “affairs”: the case of Adam Osborne.
- The lack of morality in the beautiful game
- What are the acceptable excuses for child rape – the case of Luke Grender
- Police and stalking
- North Wales Police are confused about who’s responsible for domestic violence
- .@ecotricity comes out in support of rape culture
- Murder is NOT a ‘domestic incident’
- Raped, pregnant and partner says I must have cheated.
- The Effect of Secondary Victimisation for Domestic Abuse Victims in the Form of Organised Social Exclusion
- I was blamed for his violence
- Soldier who committed domestic violence given suspended sentence due to his ‘promotion prospects’
- When therapy goes too far
- Bristol Post call child sexual abuse a “sex romp”
- Dear Court News UK : child sexual abuse is not “kinky sex”
- A master class in how not to write about the sexual abuse of a child by Bath Chronicle
- I’m not angry, I’m just hurt. (content not for sexual assault)
- Child First: Safe Child Contact Saves Lives
- will life ever be different bullying escalating and will i be free hope so.
- The pain, abuse and bullying for stnading up and telling the truth.
- We can be heroes? Not anymore
- When “I believe her” becomes a problem. (Content note for graphic sexual violence)
- Should is a dangerous word.
- I was stalked and my male friend either condoned it or denied it.
- Do we create our own reality? Really?
- abused by dad.
- Bedford Police #rightchoice campaign holds victims responsible for domestic violence
- Some of the responses to @bedspolice victim blaming campaign
- Police Officer defends victim blaming campaign
- Family Courts and DV
- Bedfordshire Police (@bedspolice) blame victims of rape for not making the #rightchoice
- South Yorkshire Police (@syptweet) conflate rape with eating too much chocolate
- mommy dearest
- The BBC: still using the term ‘child porn’
- Vote for the Worst Police ‘Safety’ Campaign of 2015
- West Midlands Police (@WMPolice) utterly irresponsible domestic violence campaign
- Domestic abuse: Police ‘nearly overwhelmed’ by increase
- Some thoughts on the media’s repeated use of the image of Daniel Holtzclaw crying during his conviction.
- fed up!!!!
- Justin Bieber and the small issue of stalking and harassment
- Officer Daniel Holtzclaw has been found guilty of rape.
- .@nbcchicago You mean child sexual abuse, not ‘sex acts’.
- Rape in a New Relationship
- Dear @Independent, Nicki Minaj is not responsible for the actions of her brother. Name him.
- An abusive man
- 16 Days of Activism: What you can do to support women’s services!
- 25 November: UN Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
- Sexual assault survivor who was victim blamed by a close friend. Need some advice please/
- Women only matter as possessions of important men.
- I was raped (content note for graphic description of rape)
- Victim-blaming as daytime entertainment on The Jeremy Kyle Show
- .@BBCthree response to our complaint about #sexontrial – complete with victim blaming.
- From ages 10 to teen years, classmates abused me. No one stopped it.
- “Is This Rape? Sex on Trial” – a critique
- Never thought that police could treat you so badly again and again
- #sexontrial : Our formal complaint to @BBCthree
- angry at #sexontrail
- .@BBCthree #sexontrial : misleading and irresponsible
- .@MerseyPolice and the small issue of a rape joke
- The closure of @EavesCharity
- next of kin 2
- When somebody does something bad to you.
- Victim blaming
- Criminalising women for failing to testify in cases of domestic violence makes a mockery of the justice system
- The Harsh Hands Of The System
- 11 year old boys cannot consent to sex with an adult
- #PeepleApp puts actual people at risk of harassment, abuse, stalking and violence.
- This is male entitlement: why domestic & sexual violence are gendered issues (content note for extreme violence)
- Serial abuser of women
- Black Dot Awareness Campaign: Irreparable Damage
- Our concerns with the #blackdotcampaign
- Join the dots
- Patrick Kane: Another athlete under investigation for rape. This time it’s the Black Hawks fault.
- Eaves declares “Women in Crisis” after a 70% increase in demand for services
- Man abducts 18-year-old Tinder date from the streets to make a point about online dating
- No woman deserves to be raped. Ever.
- 13 is an odd number, let’s make it rape number 14 (content note)
- The @BBCNews gets it wrong. Again.
- Another judge blaming a child for being sexually assaulted
- Humberside Police revictimisation of a rape and DV Victim
- A Week of Victim Blaming in the Media
- On my therapist
- Thanks for kicking me while I was down
- Assault
- victim blaming at its worst
- Farewell to Denise Marshall
- Believing the unbelievable
- Rape alarms won’t protect women from rape.
- “1 year old pet servived being shot in the mouth
- Too scared to say this to your face!!
- A Call to Men & the failure to understand perpetrators
- ‘In the public interest.’ Victims deserve public interest too.
- Jeremy Corbyn and the women-only train paradox
- Ministry of Justice: More worried about perpetrators of “Revenge Porn” than victims
- next of kin
- Raped by Mr Floppy (content note)
- A How Not To Guide on Teaching Children about Internet Safety
- There’s no allegedly about this rape.
- The Term “Historical Abuse” – From The Viewpoint of an Abuse Survivor. (content note)
- Oh captain, my captain.
- Sanctioned Jobseekers With Mental Health Problems Are Not ‘Vulnerable’, Says DWP
- you say im crazy……
- Ted Heath, Jonathan King and the role of The Spectators…
- “Witch hunts”, howling mobs” and “Hitler’s dreams”: how a rational journalist reacts to police investigating historic child sexual abuse.
- Witch hunt is the stuff of Hitlers dreams
- Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly
- The Chivalrous Violation of Women’s Bodies by @WomenCanSee
- Roll up, roll up and gawp at Jack’s victims
- We’ve reported @ fucktyler for inciting harassment and threats of violence.
- just one of many moments
- Dapper Laughs & the demand to be “educated” about rape culture
- male violence explained by my boss
- i was raped and my boyfriend blames me
- Raping a child and again as an adult being blamed for both
- Forced to Keep the name of my Rapist
- Rape is never a “victimless crime”
- Richard Dawkins, Julian Assange and the case of the missing dictionary
- Media misrepresentations of sexual violence: The BBC
- bullying and being blamed by the bullies
- Why not him?
- Ruth’s Story
- Victim Blaming a mother
- Hit me more why don’t you
- Things which constitute assault: drugging your girlfriend
- The faceless woman
- Gender is all too relevant in violence statistics
- Domestic Violence ends with the murder of an infant
- Mark Zuckerberg: Supporting male violence through the “legal name” policy
- 1/3 of police forces are “inadequate” in dealing with child protection.
- Grinning thug who fractured girlfriend’s skull after she ended relationship walks free
- still not being believed
- Complex Trauma theorists are victim blaming
- Another comment submitted to the site which replicates victim blaming attitudes
- Please help!
- The Metro conflates child rape with an affair
- Stranger rape may be rare but they are not ‘one-off’ incidents
- #AskELJames Excusing Male Violence
- Verbal abuse, emotional rape (content note)
- Boyfriend believe rape was my fault
- Blamed in online forum
- .@TheAge neglects some crucial information in headline: murder
- Lost without translation
- Miss
- dont label me, till you’ve been me!
- Blaming women for child sexual abuse perpetrated by a man
- The judge tells me
- The Reality of Ritual Abuse in the UK; or, why David Aaronovitch is wrong
- If we’re serious about ending men’s violence against women and girls, we need to listen to feminists
- Daily Mirror conflates multi-perpetrator child rape with sex
- When is a murder not a murder?
- What we mean by male entitlement
- Daily Mail: Still classing women as possessions of men.
- Home Office blames girls for their sexual exploitation in new guidelines.
- when will people see me
- Our complaint to the BBC re: David Aaronovitch’s programme on ritual abuse
- Formal Complaint to the BBC re: Aaronovitch’s misleading programme on ritual abuse
- Press make it clear women remain possessions of men – even in death.
- Victim Blaming in Family Court
- Close Yarl’s Wood and end the detention of women who seek asylum
- Forget the victims, save all your sympathy for the poor overworked police: BBC
- Perpetrators are “high risk”, not victims.
- Victim Blaming by Police: It’s Women’s Fault for Not Leaving
- “It is hoped the relationship will get back on track.”
- Strangulation is not a “tiff”
- This Is a War on Women: Erasing Jed Allen’s Choice to Kill
- A child sexual abuser has his sentenced reduced as 6 year old victim “was making a precocious choice”
- Josh Duggar, child sexual abuse and rape culture
- This is why Martin Daubney is wrong about “laddism culture”
- Kent Messenger promoting domestic violence myths
- #SayHerName – Black Lives Matter
- Media spotting patterns when it suits them
- Her name was Marta Ligman. Not the “body in the suitcase”
- Police “Safety” Campaigns: Institutionalised Victim Blaming
- 170 Bikers Charged in Melee With Roots in ’60s
- The Sun’s Campaign to Save Refuges
- The BBC responds to a complaint: Badly
- Victims of Domestic Violence own 50% of the responsibility
- Her name is Claire O’Connor not “the body in the boot”
- Why didn’t I just walk away?
- 77 years ago
- It was never my fault
- Father kills daughter as she has migraines.
- Katie Hopkins makes rape threat.
- Richard Littlejohn, Jimmy Savile & the Need for an Independent Press Commission
- Rapists are not “sex pests”
- Race and misogyny in music
- City Mayor encourages women to walk in groups in an effort to discourage offenders.
- Martin Daubney misses the point completely when talking about sexual harassment
- Telegraph writes about sexual harassment: implies victim is to blame for being un-married and not a mother
- Consensual v Non-consensual Porn
- Carol Malone: #NotNorman
- The problem with scolding women who drink.
- Fundraiser: Donate £1 to keep EVB going!
- CEOP victim blame a child in video to end child sexual exploitation
- Daily Mirror headline: Misleading and Offensive
- Police Scotland Online Safety Training: Factually Wrong & Inappropriate Language
- Media surprised that ‘normal’ men are rapists.
- Coercive sexual abuse in a marriage
- Fault lines
- Katie Hopkins & the need for an independent media complaints commission
- my husband raped me in my sle
- Battered Sibling is Actually a Syndrome
- Nightmare Dystopian Present (Why Lionel Shriver Is Wrong About Rape)
- This thing with ‘victim’ and ‘survivor’
- Man Kills Wife but it’s not his fault
- I was raped.
- George Galloway makes his position on VAWG clear:
- A 3 year old child is responsible for her own rape. (content note)
- “good and loving fathers” do not kill their children
- “Go From Victim to Survivor”
- BEING STALKED DOESN’T FEEL “KIND OF EXCITING”
- Letter to send to all candidates in general elections re: domestic and sexual violence & abuse
- Helping the Telegraph with some domestic abuse stats
- ZAYN MALIK AND HOW WE HAVE YET TO LEARN TO RESPECT THE EMOTIONS OF GIRLS.
- Trigger Warning for sex and consent. Below age of consent is below age of reason (content note)
- Why Do We Believe Such Terrible Things About Men?
- Unjust Justice: Why anonymity for rapists is wrong
- Please email your MP re: anonymity for suspects in rape cases
- .@BBCNews *finally* uses appropriate language
- i was failed, BUT I WONT FAIL! (content note)
- Suspects being investigated for rape and other forms of sexual violence do not require anonymity
- Besotted vs Controlling
- In the Know Campaign: why clarity is essential in rape campaigns
- .@StaffsPolice undermine their rape campaign with 1 victim-blaming tweet
- Australian Judge rules that an act of rape of a 9 yr old did was not a violent act. (content note)
- “Brave victim speaks as vile York rapists are jailed. She says “I’m a survivor” and urges other victims to come forward”
- “Mr Andrews now realises, in hindsight, that his actions were inappropriate and misguided.”
- Victim blaming by legal professionals; why the English courtroom is unfit for women and children
- Our campaign demands for the General Election
- That “blue & black” dress and domestic violence awareness campaigns
- That day and the years that followed.
- Sue Cook vs Nick Ross: The Tale of Two Crimewatch Presenters
- Sue Cook, Formerly of Crimewatch, says old, rich, famous men shouldn’t be accountable for child sexual abuse
- Counselling, Perpetrators and Women’s Safety
- Through a rapist’s eyes
- My Response to the Sexual Abuse Story on Emmerdale.
- Child Sexual Exploitation – Groundhog Day
- drug rape (content note)
- I despair of the BBC News website – reporting on Polanski (content note)
- Rape: How is it Still Allowed?
- It’s all in the body language – John Travolta at the Oscars 2015
- A ‘light-hearted look at who killed Lucy Beale’
- The Government’s domestic policy on violence against women and girls is lagging behind its efforts abroad, says Human Rights Committee
- my boyfriend blames me for my rape (content note)
- Mandatory training for judges in domestic and sexual violence and abuse.
- I was raped (content note)
- Sexual assaults not worth investigating
- We urge a police investigation into Manchester United Players ‘Sex Tape’
- Boyfriend is blaming me
- Pipe down David Osborne
- Domestic Violence in 50 Shades of Grey
- Dare Not Speak It’s Name.
- A response to Mary-Lou Stephens and her Huffpost article, “The One Big, Not-So-Secret Secret of a Happy Relationship
- Sarah Vine and rape apologism
- Violent man attacks wife. Media blame her breasts.
- Poor Gary Glitter was in a “bad place”
- Former Lidl Manager who beheaded his wife after ‘snapping like a stick’ is jailed.
- Ongoing victim of dv
- Police and Domestic Violence: What we’re not talking about
- MRS
- FGM and Medical Ethics
- The Sun shifting the focus onto perp’s wife who stayed
- BBC describes a woman reporting rape as making a “confession”
- Man kills woman. Media blame woman. Police remain baffled.
- “I wish you’d wear more clothing”
- Draft letter to complain to Attorney General about Stuart Kerner ***UPDATE***
- Girl, 15, kills brother. Police are baffled.
- Trying to rebuild my identity
- Men Are The New Women?
- Blame shifting headline following Jeremy Jackson’s sexual assault of Chloe Goodman
- Celebrity Big Brother: Sexual assault is not an “explosive drama”
- A Medical Student’s Experience
- We support Ann Coffey’s amendments to remove the term ‘child prostitute’ from legislation
- Holiday!
- Ronnie Moore of Hartlepool FC compares rape to a mistake
- This is a scandal- but not in the way The Sun would have you believe.
- Open Letter To Channel 5
- Why I’m sceptical about the new domestic violence legislation (content note)
- The Scottish Sun: How to blame children for their sexual abuse (content note)
- Looking at images of “child porn” is child sexual abuse
- Family Annihilators: Demonstrating the “complexities of relationships”
- Devon & Cornwall Police’s brilliant anti-rape campaign:
- The Daily Mirror Continues to Report Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham Inappropriately
- The term “fondling” minimises sexual assault
- Police blame woman for her murder
- Bristol Post gets it wrong with the “respectable family man” myth
- ‘Shamed’
- Rape is not a crime about sex: It is about male entitlement and power
- Rape is not SEDUCTION
- I was raped
- The Mirror Gives a How-Not-To Guide on Writing about VAWG
- I was assaulted and blamed for what happened.
- I don’t know what to title this (content note for rape)
- Her name was Anni Hindocha: not the “Honeymoon murder case”
- What do we mean by saying ‘a brutal rape’?
- Rolling Stone don’t believe in women
- My husband laughed and blamed me about being assaulted
- “There are no ‘blurred lines’ or grey areas.”: or why attending a White Ribbon March doesn’t make you a good guy.
- Protecting footballers’ reputations is not rape prevention
- Viewing images of child sexual abuse is child sexual abuse.
- ‘Do footballers need to take rape prevention classes?’ – A Critique
- Telegraph does whole article about teaching men how not to rape while continuing to mis-educate about rape
- Once again, the BBC ignores journalistic guidlines on responsible reporting
- ‘No Regrets’ Rape and Sexual Assualt awareness campaign
- Pakistani women – A call to arms
- Melissa Harris-Perry on victim blaming, shaming and silencing
- Bristol Post and the “RESPECTED family man”
- Campus rape and victim blaming
- Words will sometimes hurt me: how the BBC reinforces rape culture
- Demanding a rape victim report to the police is abusive behaviour
- Marissa Alexander: Misreporting & Victim Blaming in Domestic Violence
- Child Assaulted at School by her Teacher a response to the BBC
- Nick Conrad
- BBC Norfolk’s Nick Conrad Thinks He’s A Slave to His Penis
- How @CastlePromotion set the anti-domestic violence cause back decades
- Jezebel’s Saartjie Baartman: The Original Booty Queen reinforces Rape Culture
- .@Telegraph blames a child for her sexual exploitation
- DrinkAware? Some victim awareness too please!
- This is rape culture: Comments submitted to the site
- More on *that* Allison Pearson rape apology piece
- We cannot support Topshop’s new jewellery to raise money for the EDV Global Foundation
- Breach of Anonymity by Sky
- wrongly blamed from social workers with little knowledge on the signs of emotional and psychological abuse
- The Art of Discussing Dead Women
- Complaint to the Metro about their reporting of the Rurik Jutting murders
- The Rotherham report- an alternative view response.
- Social work Dept blames victims
- Why?
- ANOTHER DEPOLITICISED REPORT ON MALE SEXUAL PREDATION OF FEMALES
- Lancashire Care NHS Trust delivers a stark example of Victim Blaming of Vulnerable Women
- BBC: Adhere to responsible reporting guidelines on violence against women and girls
- What motives for violence are we prepared to acknowledge and what do we avoid?
- Child Sexual Exploitation: We Need Better Training for Social Workers
- BBC Radio 2 and the Coffey Report
- Here We Go Again…… (content note)
- Judie Finnigan (content note)
- Rape victim gets herself into a ‘silly situation’
- Why does my boyfriend take it out on me, when I was raped?
- EVB are awarded the Emma Humphreys Prize!
- Howay the lasses
- Thoughts on male violence following the Pistorius trial
- Being taken advantage of is assault
- We need a nuanced discussion of rape culture
- What if she were your mother? Your daughter?
- Responding to Rape Apologism in Women
- Rape Culture in Action: A Response to a Comment
- John Grisham: Viewing Images of Abused Children isn’t Abuse
- Dear Luke
- Barnardos is accused of blaming a victim for their sexual abuse
- Why doesn’t she just leave?
- Why @SarahVine Is Wrong About Rape & Saying So Is Not “Monstering”
- The Reality of Ritual Abuse
- Forgiveness (content note)
- Letter my mother in law wrote whole family after my husbands arrest for abuse
- Women In Prison ‘Debate’
- Jennifer Lawrence was a victim of sexual violence; not “revenge porn”
- The Power of Derailing Political Discussions about Male Violence
- #WakeUpCall campaign : Language Matters
- I Didn’t Realize I Was Raped (Content Note)
- Celebrity Big Brother & David Lee Travis
- Male Violence; it’s really not as bad as you make out…(Content Note)
- The New Excuse for Fatal Male Violence: “Trust Issues”
- I’m always making an issue
- London ambulance treatment of possible date rape victim
- Welcome to Patriarchy
- Top Writing Tips on How to Screw Women Over
- Forced Marriage: Who are the experts?
- The Good Men Project
- @CRASAC : Price of Honour: Exploring the Issues of Sexual Violence within South Asian Communities in Coventry.
- WHY
- Forget race, forget gods, forget tracksuits, it’s men we know who abuse (CN images of convicted abusers)
- BBC uses language to minimise offence…again.
- The Medical Profession Still Doesn’t Take Womens’ Mental Health Seriously
- Melanie Shaw & the consequences of child sexual exploitation
- In defence of Shonda Rhimes
- Overt victim blaming on The Alan Titchmarsh Show
- Because of what I was told ‘rape’ meant.. I kept quiet for years. (content note)
- A daughter needs her dad to show her that not all men are like the ones who hurt her
- Reeva Steenkamp Was Not Killed By Love. It Was Domestic Violence.
- It is NOT mine
- Gone Girl
- Forensic Psychologist
- Yesterday at the Old Bailey Archie Reed of West Kensington was cleared of raping a fellow student.
- Shaun Wright – When will he face what he did?
- Victim-blaming: an all-pervading curse
- Reports on ‘Leaked Nude Photos‘ — Just Another Form of Victim-Blaming
- Yes, I’m angry, but that doesn’t make me illogical: On victim-blaming
- P
- Inside A Sacred Temple
- Andrew Gimson on the Conservative Home website responds to David Ruffley standing down – apparently assaulting your partner is like eloping with her.
- On @RichardDawkins – The Religion of Logic As Used to Erase Victims Experience
- Local man defends David Ruffley MP – with more victim blaming
- It wasn’t rape
- Let down by everyone…
- 50 Shades of Flashbacks
- MP says he “regrets” assault while implying it wasn’t DV
- My friend sexually assulted me, where do I go from here?
- Can (Male Sexual Predators) Paedophiles be Good (Men) People?
- Help me to #BanRevengePorn
- “Well, that’ll teach you to be more careful”
- Boys’ Brigade Leader jailed After ‘Sex chat’
- REALLY Stephen Fry… REALLY?
- “Altercation” vs Extreme Physical Violence
- David Aaronovitch’s and the “Classic Panic” over Child Sexual Abuse
- Privacy invaded by my parents
- Boyfriend was raped
- Catch your breath
- BBC : “Husband murdered wife who left him”
- Let’s have a headline about drunkenness and underpants – Wouldn’t that be funny?
- The Grey Area of Rape (content note)
- letter to my ex
- Press Release: Potential Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Westminister
- Magaluf Girl: Consent and Sexuality
- Reporting Rape to the Police
- This thing about feminist self-defence
- Barriers to Reporting Rape.
- Complaint to BBC re: #R4Today July 1st 2014
- Girls should “stay out of harm’s way”. Yeah, no.
- Ben Blakeley: A known and repeated abuser of women
- Jimmy Savile – Excuses, Cover-ups and Ignorance.
- #MoralMaze – How can we help more rapists get away with rape?
- Trauma & Recovery: Miscarriage, Rape & Domestic Violence (Content Note)
- Sexual Pleasure & Orgasm during abuse and / or rape.
- Victim Blaming: A response to a comment submitted to our site.
- Michael Fabricant, jokes, political correctness and context
- A punch in the throat.
- my poem (surviving)
- Barriers to Reporting – “those women” and “those men”
- The normalisation of gendered violence:The importance of allowing women and girls to name their experience of violation as real.
- My letter to Leadership Journal, Christianity Today & #TakeThatPostDown:
- More Information?!
- Harassment at Uni
- Survivor Privilege, Fairies, Unicorns and Other Myths – a response to George Will
- Barriers Continue to Thwart Victims Of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse From Accessing Services
- Ally Fogg and Naming the Problem
- Ally Fogg, Mankind & the erasure of male violence
- Abuse is not…..something that men experience just as much as women.
- Am I worrying about nothing?
- Max Clifford’s friend says he’s innocent
- Victim Blaming by Oxford Mail
- The BBC and reporting male violence…Again
- Western Morning News and their inability to report on sexual assaults responsibly
- When Women and Girls Are Attacked by Men, We Blame Everything Except Male Violence
- Sick of the shame and blame game
- Why didn’t you say no?
- Why don’t ‘those women’ just stay away from abusive men?!
- The Cause and Never The Cure.
- Training Evaluations – Nottingham
- Compassion: The Key to Raising Awareness
- Complaint regarding BBC Breakfast coverage of the UCSB shooting, Sunday 25th May 2014
- The Blame Game (Content Note)
- New CPS Domestic Homicide Guidance
- What are we waiting for?
- Men’s violence against women & obfuscation by the media
- Living in the shadow
- My partner used the internet to abuse/spy on me
- I was sexually assaulted by my partner
- They Love It When We Beg
- My Experience of Emotional Abuse
- We need to talk about men’s violence.
- Changing
- False arrest
- sexual assault? while in a relationship
- Saturday’s Sun Newspaper
- Rumors of rape
- We must stop asking the same, cruel questions of the victims and instead set our sights on the perpetrators.
- Judge says child victim is “not the victim she claims to be”
- Nagging wives? More like lazy-arse husbands.
- my real life hurt (content note: physical abuse)
- Email Submitted to Metro Newspaper on 27 things that men do that women hate
- Wright is Wrong with his Doublespeak: rape is rape
- When is ‘consent’ not consent?
- The power of words
- A letter of complaint to the Metro
- A Complaint to the BBC on coverage of the trials of Rolf Harris & Stuart Hall
- Tell it like it is (Rape Name Change)
- Rape should be re-named “non consensual sex”
- A week in journalism is a long time: the reporting of the trial and verdict of Max Clifford
- Letter of Complaint to the Guardian re: Chris Huhne
- Max Clifford has been convicted
- Jury Convinced By Expert Evidence On ‘Freeze Fright’ Experience In Rape Victims
- Newsnight coverage of the Max Clifford verdict
- Oscar Pistorius drinking game
- Neglected
- Why is my rape not acknowledged (Content Note child rape, rape, sexual abuse)
- Managing Rape Culture
- A Vindication of the Rights of Rapists?
- Writing to the Attorney General. Re: The Potential Unduly Lenient Sentence of Adam Hulin
- BBC buys into rape culture…again
- Attitudes Towards Sexual Violence Need To Change
- National Stalking Awareness Day
- Relationship Expert: Ladies, Want a Stalker?
- It’s hard enough for women to report sexual abuse without the system letting them down
- Rape and domestic violence brushed aside with eight easy words
- Three cheers for the reduction in Violent Crime! Hip Hip…Oh. Wait.
- An Open Response to Shecky Magazine: On Everyday Victim Blaming & Rape Culture in Comedy by @thebobbieoliver
- Sexual Violence: Taking control of a person’s emotional, mental, and physical person by not only the perpetrator but by society
- Holding our politicians accountable
- Rape victims: seen and not heard
- Anonymity for rape defendants – bad idea in 1975, 2010 and now
- The Problem Is You (content note)
- Alas Smith and Tones: the ongoing inappropriate reporting of the Pistorius murder tiral
- Abandoned with my trauma
- Institutionalised “Domestic” Abuse
- WE NEED YOUR HELP!
- Rape is only ever enjoyed by rapists (content note for rape)
- Barbara Driver and the idea of rape as something we can choose to enjoy (content note for rape)
- Appalling reporting on the Nigel Evans verdict by the BBC
- The art of embellishing the histrionics of Pistorius
- Street harassment is responsible for men not getting enough sexy-times.
- Professionals working with those who have experienced abuse – Survey Results
- Who, exactly, is the victim here?
- Consent: Defining Reasonable Belief
- I mattered less than other victims
- Consent in Institutional Sexism
- “Why doesn’t she just leave him?”: The result of false narratives on women’s lives.
- The Island Ape
- “Man 23, arrested over murder” isn’t so entertaining.
- Vogue Italy target Domestic Violence in new edition. (content note for images)
- Consent: A mutual, interactive process
- An anti-rape campaign which triggers survivors (content note for image and language)
- Joe Hildebrand’s victim blaming made me furious
- Studio 10 and institutionalised victim blaming by @SianSteans
- An open letter to Owen Jones: What will you do?
- Women’s History Month
- Moving Forward
- HMIC Report – Police Failing Women
- Reporting Domestic Abuse to the Police
- Unicorn hunting = assault? My boyfriend doesn’t think so.
- HMIC Report into Domestic Abuse
- Campaign Update: information from PCCs
- RAINN – when support services fail to eradicate victim blaming attitudes
- Children who ‘sell’ sexual services.
- Rape Culture: An Australian’s Perspective
- “Underage sexworkers” do not exist.
- An open letter to Ally Fogg: childhood sexual abuse is not a laughing matter
- “Jealousy” is not a mitigating circumstance.
- Another ignorant judge allowing inappropriate mitigation.
- Gang Raped at 15-Fiancee Says I Wanted It
- “Jealousy” is not an excuse.
- My first relationship was of domestic violence, sexual assault and rape
- PTSD, Domestic Violence, and Personal Responsibility
- Upholding patriarchy? Why only some women?
- Contraception: Teen girls bear the responsibility
- The Police & Crime Commissioners work for YOU.
- Sympathy for the perpetrator, but not the victim.
- The Police, Social Media & Domestic Abuse: #infocus
- A Twitter Chat with Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
- Take action to reduce suicide that is attributed to the trauma of domestic and sexual violence.
- The BBC remains incapable of using appropriate language
- Radio 4 Today programme blames women’s lifestyles for domestic abuse
- A Petition to demand a fit-for-purpose record of fatal male violence against women
- Compulsory testifying for victims of sexual violence is always inappropriate
- Marissa Alexander
- Stuart Hall’s latest charge – according to @BBC5Live Radio
- Another one lost and found
- Foreign wife that never fit
- Boyfriend’s reaction to my rape disclosure
- Pistorius and Paddy Power – making a killing at the betting shop.
- Please make a complaint to the ASA about Paddy Power
- This is what feminists mean by a War on Women
- I guess it can happen to anyone (Content Note)
- Sexually abused by uncle (while in a relationship with my mom) and cousin.
- The “moral obligation” to report is rubbish!!
- Is my husband right to blame me?
- Followed, fed and forced (Content Note)
- Shamed, blamed, and betrayed
- Compulsory testifying for victims of sexual and domestic violence is Antithetical to Victim-Centred Justice
- An Open Letter to Amanda Marcotte (content note)
- News Headlines
- Safety advice
- I was raped and my boyfriend is blaming me
- Family Believes Abuser, Not Me (Content Note)
- Sharing a (tiny?) moral victory!
- Life After Life – A Review
- Shamed
- Child Rapists – How Police Protect their own.
- The Right Victim
- Unwavering guilt.
- The Police
- Abused age 4
- Reporting Rape: Never Again
- Protective Child Services
- No, it is not a ‘witch hunt’!
- Suffering Still (content note)
- Raped age 6
- Empowerment and Victim Blaming
- Family Annihilators
- The BBC and Inaccurate Headlines
- This is rape.
- Uncontrollable Temper?
- Child Sexual Abuser
- Is there such a thing as the ‘right victim’?
- Darkness Descends
- A victimless crime? (Content Note)
- The Abused, their confessions and the vital importance of “we believe you” (Part 2)
- The Abused, their confessions and the vital importance of “we believe you” (Part 1, Content Note)
- All the press does is echoes offenders comfortable stories
- The Unbelievable Truth about Victoria Coren
- Three Simple Words
- Estrangement after emotional abuse
- Stuck in The Middle With You? Not so much.
- William Roache & claims of a “witch hunt”
- Bullying – common after rape
- CPS drops case
- Parent Alienation after Domestic Abuse
- Michael Wolff Must Apologise
- Just Add Alcohol. Neknominations and the risk of rape.
- No Keir, we don’t need a Victims’ Law
- Maria Duque-Tunjano had a name
- Leaving
- I am Guilty. I am Woman.
- There is no excuse – 50 years on
- An experience of teen domestic abuse
- The Day I Totally Misunderstood a Man’s Point. For A Change.
- Rape & Alcohol – what about the perpetrator’s choices?
- Open email to BBC News online – “sexual abuse” is not “sex”
- Another Man, Another Ridiculous Sentence
- Eric Pickles – Humourless or Insensitive?
- Britain’s Youngest Mum was 11 years old [content note for child rape]
- The Consequences of a Slap
- Sarah Vine – Women Aren’t All Slappers
- Slapping the Goat
- ‘Abusive relationship’. When did this become a thing?
- Dear child eyes UK campaign
- An Open Letter to @ChrisDaviesMEP
- Child Eyes UK: Some More Concerns
- #endtabloidmags : How to Use Twitter to Campaign without Triggering Survivors
- A tale of two Mirrors – victim blaming in the press
- Five things you should know about the scale of sexual abuse in Britain and how NOT to write about it
- Feel like a fraud victim
- Filicide: An example of why our campaign is necessary
- Five things you should know about the scale of sexual abuse in Britain (content note)
- Should no mean no?
- The Tipping Point
- Raped & blamed for being ‘pretty’
- A poor understanding of the dynamics of sexual exploitation
- Dear Carol Sarler
- Robert Tiffin killed Lisa Banks
- Alcohol and Sexual Violence: When Myths are used to excuse personal responsibility
- Victim blaming & poor research in a student newspaper
- Women Prisoners: An Experience of Crime & Punishment
- Jim Davidson brags about not committing rape.
- The term “child sex party” is inaccurate and offensive
- Review of the Year: Thank you.
- Not guilty verdict for a clearly guilty man
- Reactions
- Nothing’s changed
- Review of the Year: My Reflections
- Review of the Year: Victim Blaming in the media
- Medical care, domestic violence & the impact of being a migrant
- My complaint to the Metropolitan Police
- Drugs: A Licence To Rape
- A Rapist Walks Free: Because he was Stoned
- Kind of not very good Haiku
- Notts police “poem”
- Notts Police – an alternative poem
- Gut Response
- Victims Surviving Labels
- Twitter Block Function & Victim Blaming
- An 11 year old girl has a “romantic” relationship with a 60 year old man
- Eve Ensler and “Congo Stigmata”
- Festive police campaigns, rape and drink driving
- Violence against women, statistics and ignoring gender.
- Comparing Acquisitive Crime to Rape
- SPEECH AT MOPAC LAUNCH OF VAWG STRATEGY, LONDON
- How did The Times newspaper respond to a complaint?
- Safeguarding: How victims become peripheral.
- Victim blaming is not just about hurt feelings. It helps create more victims.
- Normalized…(Content Note – Rape)
- Domestic Violence victims still need to be perfect to be deemed “Real” victims
- I’m proud that I got through it.
- BBC Radio 4 Today – the same, tired old rape myths dressed up as Flagship News
- Lowering the Age of Consent
- Paedophile: Misleading language & child sexual abuse.
- #ManWeek: My first Love – How fathers will prevent domestic homicides.[1]
- ‘Strong Women” can experience violence (or why I can’t stand the ‘strong woman’ stereotype).
- everything feels mixed up
- Thank you
- Hamzah Khan – News Headlines
- I believed the lies about me were true
- Channel 4 News & the death of Hamzah Khan
- Never call your child a liar
- The BBC remains confused about the definition of child rape
- Edwin Poots & children ‘participating’ in their own sexual exploitation
- “Underage” girls cannot “consent”
- Jimmy Savile was not a ‘sex scandal”
- Victim blaming on air
- Acknowledging Anger
- Rape Is Rape, in any language
- Victim Blaming (today’s NaBloPoMo)
- Safety Advice and what it means.
- The BBC, rape myths and damaging ‘advice’
- How can we move the conversation on?
- I finally gave my silence back to my boyfriend
- Barbara Hewson and Moral Responsibility
- The murder of Bijan Ebrahimi
- The law has failed: what’s next?
- Self Blame
- The myth of silence
- Dear LA Times, you mean child rape
- My Voice for My Friend
- Dear Young Voices *updated*
- Found My Voice
- Anti Rape Wear (content note)
- More abuse by the system that should be protecting us
- AR Wear…. Really?
- AR Wear’s Anti-Rape Clothing
- AR Wear’s Anti-Rape Clothing: Just another chastity belt.
- The Mitigation of Men’s Violence *Updated*
- He didn’t just “snap”
- The Inconceivable Confusion of Consent
- How the police dealt with my rape case
- CAFCASS portray perpetrators as victims
- The Best Rape Prevention? Change the Behaviour of the Perpetrators, Not the Victims
- The Jimmy Savile Transcript
- Research Request – Excuses, Excuses
- Emily Yoffe: ‘It’s the perpertrator’s fault…except not.” (TW)
- Guardian Article Response
- Victims and self-blaming
- Neil Wilson, ‘predatory’ and the Judiciary
- ‘Domestic Violence’ & Weak Women.
- Don’t ask why we don’t leave.
- The Scapegoating of Amanda Hutton
- Group of White Men Jailed for Raping Child.
- Marital Rape, more positive: it’s good to leave.
- Victoria Coren Mitchell’s Implication of Contributory Negligence in the Polanski Rape Case
- Strength Courage & Wisdom (Content Note: Rape)
- Marital Rape (Content Note)
- Feminist Times – a response to Taboo Corner.
- Taking action against bullying, resulted in bullying.
- No Discussion.
- Classism & Roman Polanski
- Roman Polanski: Victim/Victimiser?
- The CPS Barrister and use of the term ‘predatory’
- Abuse, Support & the ‘System’ – Part Two
- Abuse, Support & the ‘System’ – Part One
- Roman Polanski and the sin of nuance
- THAT Polanski Piece – sin or simplification?
- Further erasure of a victim who has spent much of her life asking to be heard.
- An Open Letter to Victoria Coren Mitchell and The Guardian
- On Victoria Coren’s plea for nuance in our understanding of Polanski’s rape of a child.
- Not Guilty
- Switching Off Autopilot (A Tribute to the Therapeutic Quality of List-Making)
- time for change
- Rainbow
- ‘Predatory in all her actions’ – update from CPS
- A marketing disaster with an underlying message
- Liar Liar
- Media Coverage of the Michael Le Vell Trial – Headlines
- Looking Back and Moving Forward
- Language used by Prosecutors
- Policing other women
- Nottingham Women’s Conference Workshop
- Are women to blame for men’s violence?
- What has happened to a victim centred approach in cases of domestic abuse in the English criminal justice system?
- The Daily Mail Gets It Wrong Again
- Rape is Rape, even in Edinburgh
- Not Guilty or Not Proven
- i am being abused and am trying to get out
- Victim blaming at work
- My experience with Domestic Abuse and the UK Courts
- Stamping victim blaming with Return to Sender!
- #DearCJSprofessionals – twitter, we need your help!
- On Michael Le Vell, and why arguing about rape is a waste of time
- Can’t take much more
- It’s only rape if you scream
- Not Guilty – does that mean innocent?
- Innocent until proven guilty?
- Our 3 month anniversary. A little late!
- Debunking some of the myths around rape.
- Mr. Paul Perfect
- Lady In Red Theatre Review
- A Public Policy of Inaction
- Twitter defies law again
- Part 5 – Asking is sexy
- Part 4 – To the woman unconvinced
- Part 3 – All the way – gray rape and third base
- Part 2 – But why shouldn’t she take some responsibility too?
- Part 1 – Don’t Get Raped
- Once, Twice and the rest.
- A Woman On The Internet
- Stockholm syndrome (contains graphic descriptions)
- Bullying Barristers
- £50 Donation for a student to design our logo!
- Understanding psychological trauma
- Authority, Obedience and Teen/teacher “relationships”
- Child Abuse Victim
- My Name Is Hope, And I Survived (Graphic Content)
- anger avoidance
- There is no such thing as child prostitution.
- My Experience as a Child (Content Note)
- Making Victims of Victims
- “Miley Cyrus: The Reason Why I Never Want To Have A Daughter”
- Victim blaming in the USA
- All In The Family
- Victim blaming of people with mental illness
- I felt safe. (*Content note – description of rape)
- Abuse in a Long-Term Relationship and Recovery
- The consequences of victimisation and abuse.
- “Why didn’t you report him sooner???” and double standards
- Victim blaming from the police
- #SVMyths and sexual abuse (Graphic Content)
- The prosecution of sexual abuse cases – action needed
- Advice needed – should he be upset with with me?
- Victim Blaming: Even at UK Feminista Summer School
- What do I blame myself for? (Content Note – child sexual abuse)
- What do you have to do to break the Editors’ Code of Practice?
- Punished For Being a Victim (Content Note – Graphic description of rape)
- Government need to help INNOCENT child abuse victims once and for all.
- On Sex As Affection And Validation In Abusive Relationships
- Rape in a relationship
- Why is only sexual abuse involving physical violence deemed ‘real’?
- Changes are happening – BBC article gets it right
- Our Values & Internalised Victim Blaming: An Open Discussion
- Victim Blaming in Criminal Justice Systems
- My rape was My fault
- Judgement
- Victim Blaming on BBC One’s “The One Show”
- ‘They deserve all they get’; thoughts on victim blaming
- The press blogger, the feminist campaigner and Jack of Kent
- Another article revealing attitudes in the legal profession
- Is masculinity to blame for men who murder their children?
- Guilt
- Priest
- Another Victim Blamer Sticks His Oar In – Eddy Shah
- Psychoanalyst victim blames – It Takes Two To Gaslight
- Emotional Abuse, Parental Responsibility and CAFCASS
- Letter from Keir Starmer re: Wilson Case *Updated 20 Aug 2013*
- Ariel Castro is not misunderstood
- A child is a child, lest we forget
- Barbara Hewson
- CPS Complaints
- Fighting the system
- Happiness does come with time
- Judge describes 13 year old girl as “sexual predator”
- What happens to human rights when you’re the victim?
- The “benign” pedophile
- Fathers4Justice, Mumsnet and Me: #shoutingback
- Ending Victimisation by #ShoutingBack
- My experience
- The abuser that fits into your pocket
- CAFCASS & The Family Courts
- Changing behaviour to avoid abuse
- My experience as a teacher dealing with sexism, bullying of girls and victim blaming
- Abused for defending Criado-Perez
- The victims are not the problem
- Victim blaming, attention seeking and Caroline Criado-Perez
- The ‘perfect victim’, internalised self-blame and our coping strategies
- The Silencer – an open letter to those quick to defend, slow to reflect.
- Online abuse and the shirking of responsibility.
- The Victim Game
- Questions For A Victim
- #ShoutingBack
- Concerns About the Report Abuse Petition
- No one is to blame for your child abuse images ‘addiction’ other than yourself
- 6 year old put in special needs class for sexual assault
- The Family Courts & ‘Rights’ of a Father
- No excuses for abusers
- My Mother
- As long as Coca Cola sells rape culture victims of rape will choose silence
- The Truth About Rape: It Can Happen to Anyone
- An apology
- Marte Dalelv: Norwegian woman convicted after reporting rape now loses job
- The Day I Lost Everything *Content Note*
- My boyfriend blames me for my sexual assault.
- Who’s To Blame Really?
- I can’t remember when it started.
- BBUK’s Daley – snapshot of an abusive relationship
- Daley & Hazel – BBUK & Domestic Abuse
- Blaming the murdered
- Domestic Abuse in a Lesbian Relationship
- Angela Corey – tough on crime, especially that committed by young black men and victims of domestic violence
- First….love…?!
- Guilt is a Multi-Layered Thing
- A 15-Year-Old Girl Isn’t a Scheming Temptress, She Is a Child
- On Sexism And Victim Blaming Inherent In Personal Safety Training
- Pimps & Hoes
- Exceptions and rules
- Don’t be THAT girl.
- ‘Embarrassing’ emails
- Review of Channel 4 programme “The Murder Trial”.
- all about him
- Another Day: Another Man Murders a Woman
- The Legacy of Domestic Abuse
- Nigella Lawson: DV in the Public Eye
- Saatchi, A Forgiving Man?
- Saatchi delivers the final slap in the face to Nigella Lawson.
- Silent No More
- Saatchi – it isn’t working
- @BestMagTweet and the Talk & Walk Campaign
- BBC Russell Howard’s Bad News,
- why is the Guardian still perpetuating dangerous stereotypes?
- victim blaming when reporting
- Another Reason Christian Jessen is Wrong.
- Dressed like that it’ll be your own fault if you get raped in an alley
- Jimmy Savile did not “Groom the Nation”
- ’15 – Love’. No, not Wimbledon but a week of grooming by the British media
- Dr Christian Jessen: Spreading Rape Myths
- Reframing the conversation around Domestic & Sexual Violence and Abuse.
- Not the standard type of victim blaming but . . .
- David, What Type of Headline is This?
- Attention Seeking Women Just Need to Shut Up
- When Victim Blaming Escalates.
- We need your help!
- The BBC struggles to understand the word “row”
- Children’s Services & Child Sexual Exploitation
- Just a typical week in June – ignoring men’s abuse of women and children
- Why Jeremy Forrest is No Victim
- We Can’t Help Ourselves with Victim-Blaming
- This is Rape Culture
- The Media & Language
- Victim Blaming, Language & The Media
- Internalised Victim Blaming and Mixed Messages
- This Dear Is Not For Calming Down
- A perfect victim
- National Pub Watch and Victim Blaming
- A Spectacular Piece of Victim-Blaming
- Valid Excuses for Murdering your Wife and Child
- Victim Blaming and Myths about Domestic Violence
- Apparently, Charles Saatchi is just a “bore”: The DM’s response to Saatchi’s Violence
- Social Work & Victim Blaming
- Role Models
- Liz Jones on “toxic” role models: well, she would know.
- David, what type of story is this? (An open letter to David Dinsmore, on his second day as Editor of The Sun.)
- Liz Jones Attack on Rihanna is Pure Woman-Hating
- Liz Jones of the Daily Mail Rhianna ‘invites rape’ with her clothing choices
- Clare’s Law – will it really help women fleeing violence?
- from worthlessness to worthy
- Our Whole Culture Blamed Her – Without a Word
- Why Don’t Perpetrators Have Agency?
- But I let him in
- The police became my “good Samaritans” – not the church
- “So, you consented.”
- The Wright Stuff & Amanda Lamb
- Some reflections…….
- Shame of being a victim
- Belittled, bothered & blamed
- Wigan Safeguarding or Colluding?
- Social worker
- Women Cause Male Violence
- Made to feel like the perpetrator
- Breathing In Victim Blaming
- Why Clothes Don’t Equal Rape – A reply to Maureen Messent
- Nobody Knows Best
- Why Doesn’t He Leave?
- I’m stunned by what I’ve found here
- NSPCC & Stuart Hall
- My Mother, Misogyny & Men
- To be believed
- advocate/survivor/filmmaker – www.privateviolence.com
- No, I dont deserve to be raped.
- I hope my story count for something . . I was groped and why I did nothing
- Why do we blame the victim?
- Child Rapists are not “effective” parents
- Language used about child victims of CSA/CSE
- Voice4Victims.co.uk
- My Experience With Sexual Assult
- K’s Story – Through The Eyes of a Friend (Graphic Content)
- Data Protection & Confidentiality
- Essex police & the ‘dare to share’ policy
- Becoming/Unbecoming – A True Account of Fictionalised Events
- Our Policy on Anonymity
- Do we still not understand the difference between victim and attacker?
- Playing the blame game.
- Media coverage of sexual assault
- Its all so messy and a long time ago
- Behaviour Change
- I never told anyone because I was drunk
- The Term ‘Child Prostitute’
- Social Workers Fears
- Review of ‘The Unspeakable Crime: Rape’ Published by Women’s Views On News!
- Who speaks for Lenora Fargo?
- WY Police
- Blamed for my assault
- A risk to children
- Time to speak out
- Break the silence
- The Metro, telling women how to avoid abuse.
- FCO travel advice
- Victim Blaming “review” of the BBC documentary broadcast on 4th June about St Mary’s SARC
- Using the word ‘victim’
- The Unspeakable Crime: Rape
- How You Dress
- He punched my baby
- Project Unbreakable
- TW – Celebrity comments.
- Nobody believes me because of what my abuser was.
- Shaming & Blaming
- Curiosity
- “I don’t believe it!”
- Children’s services and victim blaming
- Treatment of victims in trials
- Domestic Abuse, Grooming and victim blaming.
- my mother
- Helpful Boyfriend
- My Response to Nick Ross – How could I have prevented my rape?
- Why Lucy can never be forgotten
- Bolton News Blames ‘binge drinking’ for sexual assaults
- The Subtle Oppression of Women by Comedy
- Use of the term ‘child p0rn’
- I am that drunken rape victim
- Sexually assaulted by my psychiatrist
- Abducted & abused at age 7
- Egypt’s Challenge
- Victim Blaming Runs Too Deep
- Nick Ross and the rape apologist’s style guide
- Let’s hear from the ‘real victims’ – a response to Nick Ross
- Nick Ross – If it looks like a duck & quacks like a duck…
- Nick Ross: Rape isn’t Rape
- Nick Ross – Myth Perpetuator
- Twitter response to Buddy Franklin verbal abuse
- Forget Dinner/White Label Dating
- Supporting the true victims
- Andrew Parsons: Wife-Murderer but still a “Good Father”
- victim-blaming, Sussex Police
- F.E.A.R.
- Alice Walker on Desert Island Discs
- Why did you not…
- Child Sex
- Women and girls shouldn’t go out at night. To avoid being raped.
- The word victim
- ‘Helpful’ Suggestions
- Why men kill their children – a brief analysis of Elizabeth Yardley’s article published in the Daily Mail, 22nd May 2013
- Woman fined for carrying CS spray
- Met Police Domestic Abuse Poster
- Press Release – Everyday Victim Blaming
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