Dec 1, 2009

'Tis the season to be sexually assaulted, falalalala, lalalaLAH

 
Yo ladies! Listen Up!

Did you know that drinking alcohol makes you grow a penis? S'truth. According to Gwent Police, a penis might just materialise as if by magic where no penis was invited to be if you "let your hair down". Or so at least one is lead to believe by the fact that the poster and text in question resolutely fail to make any mention of an actual, you know, rapist. Nuh-uh. You get pissed, means you get yourself raped, all by yourself.

A very nice representative from the Gwent force is quoted on the BBC website as saying "When alcohol is involved things can become blurred and confused but there are no grey areas in regards to sex without consent - as far as the police are concerned we treat that as rape." Hmm. Yeeees. Except when it gets left in a pile of paperwork and treated like anything at all, I guess.

Listen, if rape was actually illegal in this country, then the police would arrest rapists (as opposed to letting them off with a caution), the Crown Prosecution would prosecute them, and juries would convict them and sent them to jail. None of which is convincigly the case.

So we can all pretty much draw the conclusion that rape is OK and if it happens to you it's your fault anyway. Ain't it nice of Gwent Police to remind us of the pleasant certainties of life just in time for the holidays? Aww.

ETA: In case you thought that it's only women have to get ready for Rape Season, check out this ad from Lynx. Presumably he shoved her body in the dumpster after he was done, since there's only one pair pf footsteps leaving the scene.

1 comment:

  1. I'm shocked and appalled by Gwent Police; after all, if alcohol really impaired one's judgement and disinhibited risk-taking behaviour, we wouldn't even be allowed to drink and drive. Where will this reactionary madness end?

    Oh, and if the two sets of footprints are supposed to be a male arriving at and subsequently leaving the scenein the Lynx ad., what's our evidence of a second person in the scenario at all (as opposed to the idea, say, that the kind of people who buy Lynx are likely to engage in solitary, adolescent snow sculpting)?

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