https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7206839/Clementine-Ford-links-grandpa-asking-one-year-old-granddaughter-hug-metoo.html
Hardline feminist Clementine Ford ties a man 'trading hugs for blowing bubbles with his granddaughter' to sexual assault and the #MeToo movement in new advice column
By HANNAH MOORE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 20:47 EDT, 2 July 2019 | UPDATED: 22:28 EDT, 2 July 2019
Feminist author Clementine Ford has used her first agony aunt column to liken the actions of a grandfather desperate for affection to the #MeToo movement.
An anonymous mother wrote to Ms Ford through Yahoo, asking how she should respond to her father-in-law offering to blow bubbles for her one-year-old daughter on the condition she gave him a hug.
She said her daughter had been playing with her grandfather, who was blowing bubbles for her. When he stopped, the one-year-old asked him to keep going.
The grandfather responded by telling her: 'I'll blow you more bubbles if you give me a hug', the woman said.
'I am furious that he tried to bribe my child with something she really wanted for her affection. I said, "we don't negotiate for hugs",' the mother wrote.
'How can I best advocate for my daughter in these situations when all I want to do is come down on other people like a tonne of bricks for perpetuating a culture where women feel they owe men/people affection, that their affection is a favour that can be bought?'
Ms Ford wrote back, explaining to the woman that she wasn't overreacting, and was helping prepare her daughter to speak up if she was uncomfortable with the advances of someone older than her.
The author, who describes herself as a 'hardline feminist', said it could be 'hugely disempowering' to be a child.
Ms Ford said children who attempted to enforce boundaries with adults when it came to physical contact were often ignored.
'Is it any wonder the #metoo movement has unearthed so many stories of women manipulated or trapped into activity they don't remember consenting to but felt ill-prepared to stop?,' she wrote.
Ms Ford advised the woman to explain her choices to her family without her daughter present, and to remind them one in five women in Australia will experience sexual assault at some point in their life.
She continued to say forcing a child into hugging and kissing people with more power than them could teach them it was normal to trade physical affection for things they wanted.
The column was Ms Ford's first for Yahoo Australia, and comes just months after she spectacularly resigned as a columnist for Fairfax because of 'censorship'.
Many women praised Ms Ford's words, saying they agreed with her stance on teaching children consent early.
'Exactly on point with many conversations I have tried to have with extended family (only to be vilified for it),' one woman wrote.
'But worth every patronising comment because from two years old my oldest daughter was already asserting herself with phrases like "it's my body" and "no, I'm the boss of my body". My own little mini hardline feminist!'
But some said Ms Ford had gone too far, and not considered the complexities of intention.
'Boys often hate kissing their mothers when they reach adolescence, or younger. Are mums meant to back off because they’re now seeking unwanted physical favours?' one man asked.
'Clementine’s point is easy to make because it doesn’t take the time to consider the complexities of the intentions of the family.
'Any resistance from well meaning, loving adults who want to show and receive affection (which is now evil) is regarded as potential sexual interference in the upbringing of a child. This harms the child in the end, and why? To satisfy the worries of the hypersensitive feminist mother?'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeHL0bQVIfU
ReplyDeleteBe Careful what you wish for Clementine Ford you might end up getting another John Bunting in Power. Yes its been 20 years since the Snowtown Murders took place and it started with Bunting making crazy allegations and paranoia that everybody he sees is a rapist and harasser. Note John Bunting ordered the harassment of people he accused of being a Pedo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yR_Q9ll7yk
https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/7298821-151/prineville-creep-catcher-arrested
ReplyDeleteNow A creep catcher has been detained for Disorderly COnduct
The Prineville man who films himself in confrontations with alleged pedophiles was arrested last week during one of his busts.
Authorities are not releasing information about the arrest of Cougar Martin Joanis, who was cited on suspicion of first-degree disorderly conduct and menacing and taken to Crook County jail, according to the jail website.
Joanis, whom The Bulletin profiled last month, has been released, and the Crook County District Attorney’s Office has yet to make a charging decision in the case.
A self-styled vigilante, the former fast-food employee poses as a 13- to 14-year-old on dating apps and arranges in-person meetups with adults, then films the ensuing confrontations. He and a few friends have posted more than a dozen videos of the confrontations. Despite his enthusiasm, Joanis’ efforts have netted zero arrests. Until now.
Joanis told The Bulletin he arranged a meetup at his home last week with a 48-year-old man from Portland. The man arrived around 2 a.m. Friday. Joanis approached him and filmed a confrontation lasting about three minutes, he said.
Joanis was wearing a bulletproof vest. He had a scarf covering his face, and he was armed with a 6-inch fixed-blade knife, he said.
Police driving by shined a spotlight in their direction, he said.
“I think the cops saw a man clad in black waving a phone and berating a 48-year-old man in a parking lot at 2 and assumed I was hurting him or something else,” Joanis wrote to The Bulletin.
Joanis was handcuffed and put in the back of a police car while police spoke with one of his associates.
According to Joanis, police spoke with the older man for about a half an hour before releasing the man and taking Joanis to jail.
Joanis said he never learned the older man’s name.
Local law enforcement officials and Crook County District Attorney Wade Whiting have personally asked Joanis to stop, citing safety concerns and the possibility he will jeopardize an ongoing investigation. In the past month, Joanis has remained active in his mission and posted three new videos.
He’s now trying to get by without his phone, which he calls his main tool for catching “creeps,” and which was confiscated by police as evidence.
“I’ll need to gather some new gear before I do anything,” he said
Lucy Haughey was at a bar when she was attacked by Evelyn Kyle.
ReplyDeleteHaughey – who won ?1,000 on the Scottish version of the show in 2017 – was left with bruising, scratches and two black eyes after she was heabutted repeatedly.
It comes after she admitted having sex with one of her friend’s 15-year-old sons in 2017.
She avoided jailed but lost her job and was given a three-year community payback order.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how her notoriety led to the assault, reports Daily Record.
She told the court: “I made a general comment about the weather because her top had been rained on.
“She turned round slowly and said 'I f*****g know you, you're a f*****g paedo. I got the fright of my life, it came out of nowhere.
“I didn't know the woman, I hadn't seen her before, and it was in a busy pub but she was right up in my face.
“The lady was Evelyn Kyle."
Haughey added: "Before I knew what was happening I was on the ground, spreadeagled on the pavement.
"I was pulled to the ground by my hair. I had never met any of them. I was pulled to the ground and kicked repeatedly.
"They were aiming for my head and my face.
"They were both kicking me fast and hard as quick as they could. It seemed to go on forever."
Asked about being called a “paedo”, she responded: "I'm on the Sex Offenders' Register but a paedophile is a different thing."
Kyle was convicted of assault and fined ?450.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/795934/come-dine-with-me-winner-lucy-haughey-sex-boy-vigilante-attack
https://ktla.com/2019/08/04/classmates-dayton-mass-shooter-kept-hit-list-and-rape-list/
ReplyDeleteBetter Reexamine your arguments here.
High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling a "hit list" of those he wanted to kill and a "rape list" of girls he wanted to sexually assault.
Connor Betts, 24, pictured in an undated photo. (Credit: CNN)
The accounts by two former classmates emerged after police have said there was nothing in the background of 24-year-old Connor Betts that would have prevented him from purchasing the .223-caliber rifle with extended ammunition magazines that he used to open fire outside a crowded bar. Police on patrol in the entertainment district fatally shot him less than a minute later.
Both former classmates told The Associated Press that Betts was suspended during their junior year at suburban Bellbrook High School after a hit list was found scrawled in a school bathroom. That followed an earlier suspension after Betts came to school with a list of female students he wanted to sexually assault, according to the two classmates, a man and a woman who are both now 24 and spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern they might face harassment.
"There was a kill list and a rape list, and my name was on the rape list," said the female classmate.
A former cheerleader, the woman said she didn't really know Betts and was surprised when a police officer called her cellphone during her freshman year to tell her that her name was included on a list of potential targets.
"The officer said he wouldn't be at school for a while," she said. "But after some time passed he was back, walking the halls. They didn't give us any warning that he was returning to school."
Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Schools officials declined to comment on those accounts, only confirming that Betts attended schools in the district.
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/17806569.39-paedophile-hunter-not-sorry-attack-child-sex-offender-39-court-hears/
ReplyDeleteA SO-CALLED paedophile hunter accused of using excessive force to apprehend a child sex offender told police he was 'not sorry' afterwards, a court heard.
Shane Brannigan said he had been sexually abused as a child and had the 'right' to exact revenge on paedophiles.
The 41-year-old is alleged to have carried out a Wild West-style citizen's arrest of Bournemouth man Andrew Vaughan who he had caught in a sting operation.
Vaughan, 48, sent lewd videos of himself to what he thought was an underage girl when it fact it was Brannigan's organisation.
Although Vaughan was later convicted of child sex offences, Brannigan was accused of going over the top when confronting him.
The 'vigilante' is said to have put Vaughan in a headlock and punched him in the ribs and head while he held him in his car for 30 minutes until the police arrived.
Brannigan was arrested and charged with false imprisonment and has gone on trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.
The jury heard extracts from Brannigan's police interview.
He was asked by investigating officer David Wilkins what right he had to arrest Vaughan.
Brannigan, who has waived his right to anonymity, said: "I was raped...as a young child and you're asking me what right I have?
"The scars will stay with me until the day I am in a hole. So no I am not sorry."
He added that Vaughan had 'committed a crime' and said he did not want to let him out of the car 'in case he went into his house and hid evidence'.
Mr Wilkins also asked why he did not call the police, to which Brannigan replied he had dialled 999 but the operator had instructed him not to call back.
He said: "I do not value authority yet alone respect it.
"I am anti-authoritarian, I hate the police, I hate the government and I hate the system in general.
"My plan is to bring the f****** lot down."
The court has heard how Brannigan travelled from his home in Pontefract, West Yorks, to Bournemouth, on October 25, 2017, after catching Vaughan in an online sting operation.
He and a colleague waited for Vaughan to arrive home from work before forcing their way into his car to detain him.
The convicted sex offender has told the jury he feared for his life and was relieved when the police turned up to arrest him.
Robert Bryan, prosecuting, told the court the CPS had to bring charges of false imprisonment against "vigilante" Brannigan.
He said: "People can't put themselves above the law and become vigilantes. We have police officers for a reason - this is not the Wild West.
"This is still the case no matter how unpalatable the offence is.
"Nobody is going to shy away from what Mr Vaughan was convicted of but we cannot condone people acting in the way Mr Brannigan acted. This is why the Crown has brought this case against him."
Brannigan denies false imprisonment and the trial continues.
https://www.recordonline.com/news/20190725/deerpark-mans-manslaughter-retrial-underway
ReplyDeleteNow a Retrial for David Carlson is underway.