This is @EJWoolf straight up victim-blaming the 12-year-old girl who was raped by Dutch Olympian, Steven van de Velde, suggesting a CHILD lead on an adult rapist:
“I know 12-year-olds who are sassy and act like they’re 16-year-old girl’s.”
Err… van de Velde DID know her age before boarding a flight to go and rape her? Insinuation the victim has any fault is repugnant, do you know why? Because she was a CHILD…
…Woolf continues, next up diminishing van de Velde’s act of rape as a “mistake”, lamenting:
“ …it's really hard when you make a mistake… and you’re never allowed to be forgiven,”
Adding that, “this must be a deeply uncomfortable experience for him.”
‘Him’, yes you read that right. Breathe. Regroup. Next up, van de Velde’s age at the the time:
“ …he's now grown up.”
He was 19, an adult. How old do you have to be to know rape is wrong?!
Woolf then does a Paula Radcliffe:
“ …he has turned his life around… the fact that he's married and has a child now.”
Suggesting, like Radcliffe, a perpetrator later becoming married and having a child is evidence of rehabilitation is not evidence based and is highly delusional, especially considering how many married father’s rape women.
Onto the next, this one’s a bit weird…
“If I was judged for everything I did between the age of 12 and 19, I'd probably be in prison or something serious.”
Disregarding the mindless conflation with the age comparison between a child and an adult, is this some sort confession Woolf? Dare we ask.
Woolf then likens the whole rape to, “a very inappropriate holiday romance thing.”
And then the kicker… Woolf asks:
“Was it non-consent… ” before stopping herself and not finishing her sentence. Almost as if FINALLY, awareness has set in after realising perhaps that, yes, she is in fact a repulsive child rape apologist ⬇️
Disqualify Convicted Child Rapist Steven Van De Velde from the Olympics - Sign the Petition!
The 29-year-old was jailed for four years in March 2016 for raping a 12-year-old British girl in Milton Keynes in 2014
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After a man broke into my house and raped me when I was 20, many of male friends got VERY emotional about it and I felt like I was babysitting THEM instead of being supported. Except one who came over, night after night, and slept on my couch so I could feel safe in my room.
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🧵Trigger warning: suicide
I am the proud mum of a trans woman, Alice.
Alice came out to her best friend, Lucy when she was fifteen, to her sister, Kate a year later. She didn’t come out to me. Why not? Probably because I’d absorbed media transphobia 1/
as a millennial dad I’ve never not been Too Online so I know the best combination of buzzwords to maximize being annoying to my tween; she got a meatball sub for lunch and I said “oh she in her marinara era for real” and the eye roll could have powered our house for a year