On 8/1/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/2/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
Armed Blowfish apparently get e-mails through to the list, and has asked me to forward this.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com Date: Aug 1, 2007 10:03 PM Subject: The Second Rape: Victim-Blaming (was Re: [WikiEN-l] Self-sensorship, how far should it go?) To: jayjg99@gmail.com
I am truly depressed by the lack of support SlimVirgin is receiving from certain individuals on this list, but at the same time, not surprised. Victim-blaming has a long and horrific history. When it happens to rape victims, it is called 'the second rape'... to victims of assault, 'the second assault'... or, to cover all situations, victim-blaming or secondary victimisation.
I think that sums up my feelings on this matter, too. I just cannot understand why Slim Virgin is being described as "a net detriment to the project" on account of attacks that are made by *her* by people we all recognise as either severely unbalanced or having an axe to grind. It quite disturbing.
The response you've described is so astoundingly lacking in empathy, and, frankly, wrong-headed and immoral on so many levels, that I find it frightening.