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@jen_jen wrote:
So abuse victims who didn’t come forward years ago should now keep quiet if their abusers are dead or “too old to be a threat”? When is a man too old to be a threat?
And if you don’t think it would be brushed under the carpet now if someone was influential enough…well there isn’t anything more to be said is there?
Tell me…your child comes to you as an adult and breaks down, they tell you that they were abused as a child 20 years ago but were too afraid to say anything at the time and it still haunts them. Their abuser is now in their 70s or dead. What are you going to say to your child?
Well sorry love, you should have said something at the time, it’s too late now that he’s dead/too old to be a threat to anyone else so lets just forget about it and move on shall we? Nothing to be gained from going back to it, waste of time and energy…
I couldn’t agree more. =D>
@jen_jen wrote:
I’m not sure if I’ve shared this story here before or whether it was on another forum so apologies if I’m repeating myself.
I had an older cousin who was an only child and was spoilt rotten. She always had the most exquisite dolls, the kind that you looked at and didn’t play with. One of my favourites was a black doll that had the prettiest face, thick afro-style hair, gold earrings and deep brown eyes…bear in mind that this was at a time when most dolls were white, had straight blonde or brown hair and blue eyes so to my young eyes she was very different and special.
A few years ago her daughter asked if she could borrow one of her dolls as her daughter (my cousin’s granddaughter) had to take in an old toy that her parents or grandparents might have played with. She selected my favourite doll, still as pristine and beautiful as ever. Alas she didn’t get shown to the class…the teacher confiscated it and asked he mother to come to the school to discuss it. She had deemed this beautiful doll as racist because it was black and had afro-style hair. She didn’t know quite what to say when it was pointed out that it was more racist to think that only white dolls were acceptable or that racially correct depiction in the afro hair was in some way offensive.
Whilst I abhor racism and all forms of prejudice, it does seem that sometimes we bend over so far to not cause offence to one group that it is more offensive in its own way as we almost seem to be denying their existence or, in avoiding offending one group ending up offending another group. We seem to be losing sight of common sense and a sense of balance.
Isn’t there a middle ground which most normal people stand on. On either side though there is a racist area and an anti-racist area.
The racists and anti-racists annoy the hell out of me.
I remember reading about a woman who’d complained to the police that a shopkeeper had a golliwog on display in a shop window. I don’t see what the offence was, but the woman who’d complained had it in her mind that it breached some kind of racist law that existed. In reality it was her attempt at being a do-gooder. The only ‘good’ thing about it is that it highlighted her complete and utter stupidity.
@momentaryloss wrote:
The thing that bothers me about this story is why we spent years messing about with extradition, when we could just have tried him here, slung him in jail and avoided the whole circus.
We have gone through this ridiculous pantomime just so that the Americans can say he received American justice.
He could have been locked up here, for the same crimes he is accused of in the USA, years ago.
We’re in the European Union.
@(f)politics? wrote:
i watched it, now i still think it was a pointless exercise,
You may think so but if it uncovers a paedophile ring – and it looks as though it may – then you’re going to look spectacularly stupid by making those kind of remarks.
@sceptical guy wrote:
apology to Terry, who may have read a post I deleted calling him an old woman.
I was trying to be smart, and as usual ended up being offensive and stupid.
I’m sorry if you read it.
There’s no need to apologise.
Freddie Starr has been named/shamed as being involved. He is denying any allegations made against him.
I bought myself a bucket and spade which means I’m out of pocket too. ](*,)
@jen_jen wrote:
@sceptical guy wrote:
No, didn’t know that, Mrs T.
it’s a good phrase, innit?
Also not sure why women are drawn to wisdom doggerel….My mother was real keen on havng this sort of stuff plastered around the house.
Are you saying that Terry is a woman? :shock:
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Jill St John as Tiffany Case was my favourite Bond Girl.
