Thursday, March 12, 2009

52%

Or: Screw you, England and Wales.

To the woefully low 52% of English and Welsh people who don't think sex workers should be held responsible for being raped simply by virtue of being sex workers: Isn't it depressing that I feel the need to thank you for that?

The report contains similarly horrific data on the percentage of respondents to the Home Office Violence Against Women Opinion Poll who think it's acceptable for a man to beat a woman in a variety of imaginative circumstances. Good reading, if you're in a "put your head on the desk and cry for the fate of humanity" kinda mood.

5 comments:

sticky and delicious said...

Geeze.

I feel so tired. *headdesk*

hexy said...

Yeah.

You may have seen my ranting on a mailing list.

Beppie said...

D:

It's hard to know what to say to something like that, except that I feel sick thinking about it.

hexy said...

It's a bit like that, isn't it?

Gaina said...

I seem to be "putting my head on the desk and crying for the fate of humanity" every fucking day now, it's depressing.

But at least I know what to call the other 48% now - ignorami.