Posts by Chris Waugh
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I’d be totally OK with the Police Minister *cough* clearly signalling to the Police Commissioner that she would happily accept his resignation,
Thank you Craig. Ben's post left me in speechless horrorrage. I certainly do not disagree with your suggestion, and it would be nice to think perhaps the relevant minister would be reading this thinking, "That Ranapia, he's a smart guy, I might just take his advice." Not holding my breath, though.
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Took a different route back from the kindy this morning.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Rageaholic,
Even just letting the group know that the police are aware of what they are doing may have made them stop.
They did interview some of the group, didn't they? One does not need to be particularly observant to notice that the police know what you're up to and might not be overly happy about it when one is sitting in a police station being interviewed about one's actions by police officers. And yet they didn't stop.
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Is that old Harmful Digital Communications ministerial briefing paper what led to the bill introduced today? If so, have any of the issues discussed here a year ago been cleaned up? Audrey Young's rather empty article makes this bill sound really nice, but comments on the other thread leave me wondering...
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Thanks Rich. Am I right in halfway remembering the implications of this bill have been discussed in a Legal Beagle thread? Running out of time to go search for it, though, I'll have to remember to check later.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Alex Coleman,
How the hell do we even start fixing this when broadcasters seem to think that the interview technique appropriate with a friend of a victim would be something like that of a defense lawyer.
Somebody upthread said something about the culture seeming to have regressed. I think the whole shock jock phenomenon is a part of that regression. Buggered if I know how we change that, though, for all of us who boycott shock jocks, there’s plenty more who’ll tune in and nod along at their “pearls of wisdom”. Through vociferous complaint we might get one or two in trouble, but they just pop right back up before too long.
ETA: I'm not sure if anything has actually regressed or this is an example of the "recency illusion" or if more of us are becoming more aware of all these issues or what.... But it would be nice to be rid of those shock jocks.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Emma Hart,
And because I seem to be suffering from a coherency deficit this morning, let me make it perfectly clear that I completely agree with you.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Emma Hart,
I know, Emma. They were then humiliated over the internet. Clearly we need to work on how the laws about rape are enforced and the culture that allows it to happen, but if this bill passes then don't we have one more tool to fight the continued victimisation of these girls and many others.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to JacksonP,
I really hope some good comes of this, especially for the victims. And soon.
Perhaps a little more impetus to passing this? I'm sure the lawyers hereabouts could have a field day picking that bill apart, but it at least seems like a good and necessary step forward.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Lilith __,
Here is the incomparable Scuba Nurse on great constructive things we can do with our anger .
Thanks, Lilith (and Russell for seconding it) that is an awesome post with much wisdom (and hang on a minute, I just managed to open a link with blogspot in the URL without having to jump the Firewall.... I wonder how long that will last).
Be the person advocating body autonomy for the children and young people around you.
Ask before you hug or kiss friends, family or other people you greet.Oh, yes, this one. I occasionally have to fend off people who think it's perfectly acceptable to run up and touch or hug "the little foreigner", and just last night on the way home from kindergarten it was one of my own students who did it. Unfortunately this time, being on the bike, there wasn't much I could do to put myself between him and her, but I know his timetable and I will shortly be wandering over to give him a stern talking to. He freaked her out so badly I had to quickly find a quiet spot (hah! a quiet spot in urban China!), stop, and just hold her until she'd calmed down again before we could continue on our way. None of these situations have been in any way rape-y (though I have described a more disconcerting acquaintance elsewhere on PAS), and it's not even remotely comparable to the crime at hand, but it all starts somewhere, right? Amongst all the other really good stuff in that post, I was just glad to see somebody saying that.
