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Showing posts with label Sexism. Show all posts

Saturday, April 3, 2021

UK's elite schools face a reckoning on rape culture

London (CNN)Nine years after being assaulted by a boy she alleges was a student at Eton College, Zan Moon can still remember the moment as if it was yesterday.

"I can picture the hallway where it happened, his hands around my neck choking me," she says. "Then he put his hands down my pants... It was painful. I told him to stop."
Moon says the five-hour attack took place outside of school in a secluded cottage on England's South Coast, rented for the weekend by a friend at the elite girls' boarding school she attended: Benenden. She was 15 then.
Boys from the two all-male schools the girls often socialized with -- Eton and Tonbridge -- were also there and saw her fight her aggressor off multiple times. Yet no one intervened, she says.

Sunday, March 21, 2021

‘Life at home just didn’t make sense’: the mental trauma of foreign correspondent Sally Sara


In 2009, the ABC foreign correspondent Sally Sara walked into the Role 3 hospital at Kandahar Air Base, in Afghanistan. Role 3 was one of the busiest combat hospitals in the world, treating a near constant stream of wounded soldiers, insurgents and women and children. A sign near the entrance read “The best care anywhere”, which was no idle boast: the hospital had a 97 per cent survival rate.

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Roundup: Murdoch tech deals, Leigh Sales on sexism, Natalie Barr’s first day + more


The chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is a man transformed. After cash-for-journalism deals with Google and Facebook, Robert Thomson’s accusations of “smugness” from big tech have made way for compliments, reports London Telegraph’s Ben Woods and Matthew Field.

Thomson lauded Google boss Sundar Pichai for his “thoughtful commitment to journalism” following an agreement with News Corp last month.

Leigh Sales showed us the abuse women cop online. When are we going to stop tolerating misogyny?


Another day, another woman being called a “whore” — and worse — on Twitter.

In the wake of her recent interview with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, ABC 730 host Leigh Sales posted some of the sexualised abuse she gets on Twitter just for doing her job. 


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