“You have to seem at the way she used to be dressed. She was once sporting a thong with a lace front," said attorney defending man later acquitted of raping teen.
LONDON — Women carrying lacy underwear took to the streets throughout Ireland this week after a man used to be acquitted of rape in a trial that featured a 17-year-old's thong as a line of defense.
The demonstrations equipped underneath the hashtags #ThisIsNotConsent and #EndVictimBlaming have been launched after the 27-year-old was observed not responsible on Nov 6.
“Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting any person and being with someone?” protection legal professional Elizabeth O’Connell asked jurors in the southern town of Cork, in accordance to the Irish Examiner. “You have to look at the way she used to be dressed. She was once wearing a thong with a lace front.”
Protests had been held in Dublin, Limerick, and Cork Wednesday, and any other was once slated for the town of Waterford on Friday.
On Tuesday, lawmaker Ruth Coppinger held up a blue lacy thong in Ireland's parliament, acknowledged as the Dáil, to protest the government’s state of no activity over the issue of sexual consent.
“It would possibly appear embarrassing to show a pair of thongs here in this incongruous putting of the Dáil,” she told fellow lawmakers. “But the purpose I’m doing it is, how do you suppose a rape sufferer or a lady feel at the incongruous putting of her undies being proven in court.”
Coppinger later tweeted that in Ireland victims can have their underclothes surpassed around as proof in court, and referred to as on people to be part of the protests.
Pictures of the protests in Cork posted on social media confirmed a sea of lacy thongs draped alongside the steps of the courthouse as activists held placards in protest against victim blaming.
One signal read: “Why does the Irish courtroom have their knickers in a twist over ours?”
In a video of the Dublin protests, women’s rights activist Rita Harrold instructed crowds that the use of a teenager’s underclothes as an indication of her intentions was “despicable.”
“This culture that tells us we have to maintain ourselves safe, we have to put on conservative clothes, we can’t go to sure places is a subculture that tolerates rape and blames victims," she said. "We won’t take it anymore."
As Irish women and guys took to the streets, social media users across the world posted photographs of their underwear under the hashtag #ThisIsNotConsent. Several said they were doing so in solidarity with their Irish sisters.
The protests over the court's handling of the case follow the acquittal of two high-profile Irish rugby gamers who have been accused of rape in Northern Ireland until now this year.
In the trial — which captivated populations on both aspects of the Irish border and triggered large and indignant demonstrations — the complainant's underwear used to be shown to the court and specific textual content messages had been used as part of the evidence.
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| Protesters in Dublin hold up their underwear in support of victims of sexual violence on Wednesday. |
LONDON — Women carrying lacy underwear took to the streets throughout Ireland this week after a man used to be acquitted of rape in a trial that featured a 17-year-old's thong as a line of defense.
The demonstrations equipped underneath the hashtags #ThisIsNotConsent and #EndVictimBlaming have been launched after the 27-year-old was observed not responsible on Nov 6.
“Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting any person and being with someone?” protection legal professional Elizabeth O’Connell asked jurors in the southern town of Cork, in accordance to the Irish Examiner. “You have to look at the way she used to be dressed. She was once wearing a thong with a lace front.”
Protests had been held in Dublin, Limerick, and Cork Wednesday, and any other was once slated for the town of Waterford on Friday.
On Tuesday, lawmaker Ruth Coppinger held up a blue lacy thong in Ireland's parliament, acknowledged as the Dáil, to protest the government’s state of no activity over the issue of sexual consent.
“It would possibly appear embarrassing to show a pair of thongs here in this incongruous putting of the Dáil,” she told fellow lawmakers. “But the purpose I’m doing it is, how do you suppose a rape sufferer or a lady feel at the incongruous putting of her undies being proven in court.”
Coppinger later tweeted that in Ireland victims can have their underclothes surpassed around as proof in court, and referred to as on people to be part of the protests.
Pictures of the protests in Cork posted on social media confirmed a sea of lacy thongs draped alongside the steps of the courthouse as activists held placards in protest against victim blaming.
One signal read: “Why does the Irish courtroom have their knickers in a twist over ours?”
In a video of the Dublin protests, women’s rights activist Rita Harrold instructed crowds that the use of a teenager’s underclothes as an indication of her intentions was “despicable.”
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| Irish lawmaker Ruth Coppinger holds a thong during a protest in Dublin. |
“This culture that tells us we have to maintain ourselves safe, we have to put on conservative clothes, we can’t go to sure places is a subculture that tolerates rape and blames victims," she said. "We won’t take it anymore."
As Irish women and guys took to the streets, social media users across the world posted photographs of their underwear under the hashtag #ThisIsNotConsent. Several said they were doing so in solidarity with their Irish sisters.
The protests over the court's handling of the case follow the acquittal of two high-profile Irish rugby gamers who have been accused of rape in Northern Ireland until now this year.
In the trial — which captivated populations on both aspects of the Irish border and triggered large and indignant demonstrations — the complainant's underwear used to be shown to the court and specific textual content messages had been used as part of the evidence.
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In connection with your article #thisisnotconsent! Plastician, women outraged by this event, have agreed to lend this little piece of cloth, a supposed symbol of guilt, that I draw pinned?
ReplyDeleteTo discover the very beginning of the series of drawings: https://1011-art.blogspot.com/p/thisisnotconsent.html
And also in echo, a more puderic work entitled «Noli me tangere» on the inviolability of the woman’s body: https://1011-art.blogspot.fr/p/noli-me-tangere.html
Thank You For Comment.