Widdershins wrote: » Wow. And how do you expect to hear of them? They don't all make headlines. This one, however, did, and not long ago. So yes, there is a very worthwhile discussion to be had. The rapist is a man who ''grew up within a strict Islamic culture'' according to psychologist Dr Rioghnach O'Leary. In his culture ''people like her'', the victim who has Down Syndrome, would be shut away, so he says he did not know she had Downs Syndrome. When he moved to Ireland to find work he did not interact with any women for two years and was surprised “at the more liberal approach here”, Dr O'Leary said. Couples holding hands and kissing on the street were “quite jarring” to him.http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-accused-of-raping-woman-with-down-syndrome-does-not-have-intelligence-to-adapt-to-social-norms-in-ireland-trial-hears-34286366.html
me_right_one wrote: » Am I seeing things, or is that an erection? :eek:
Ralf and Florian wrote: » It's either a pistol in her pocket or she's just pleased to see herself.
me_right_one wrote: » Genuine question - was "she" born male? As in, is LON a transsexual?
Ulysses Gaze wrote: » Some of this stuff, like hacking her sisters Facebook account, is bordering on some sort of psychosis. And I really hope her ex did not give her his email passwords. WTF is that about? No girlfriend I have had has EVER asked me for that type of information. It's just not normal behaviour.
tomofson wrote: » I can almost guarantee without fail if they were happening everyday you would know, there was a rape in clondalkin recently and within days everyone knew what certain community the alleged perpetrators where members of. Needless to say they where not Muslim.
RonFan wrote: » It's gotten to the point where a substantial portion of the female populous in western nations fit the criteria for what was once an uncommon level of neurosis. Not a majority by any means but a growing minority. Some women coming up in our modern culture -where gender relations are in a state of crises - have begun to chronically repress their feminine impulses, specifically those relating to woman's role in family/relationships that is still a part of our internal program but is no longer deemed tenable to our hyper-individualistic and power/status-driven value system. This then manifests as an obsessive world-view where literally everything resolves around the oppression of women by men. The internet has exasperated this by a lot, as these women form echo-chambers with each other that serve to consolidate the most absurd of views as ultimate truth, when really what's happening is mass wound-poking.
kunst nugget wrote: » We're seeing the same thing with men in terms of a growing minority using echo chambers to create another version of what they consider is the truth in terms of the oppression of men. They are over-exaggerating their masculinity and creating a masculine ideal (alpha male who doesn't take any shít from ugly women) in response to the flux in gender relations and blaming everything wrong in their lives on women and feminism.
Widdershins wrote: » But nobody said anything about it happening every day. I don't think I'll place any bets based on your guarantee. Gossip in a close community is not the same as the details of a case being made public. And when you say a certain community, followed by, needless to say not Muslim, you sound a shade bigoted against 'a certain community'.
givyjoe wrote: » I don't think you are in a position to comment on someone sounding bigoted against 'a certain community' with your aspersions on Muslims and a rape culture.
Muhammed_1 wrote: » I think there's something unusual happening in the crotchal region, in Louise's pic. It doesn't look like a zip to me. I feel she must be aware of it herself.
Emmeline Whining Cork wrote: » People like Louise O'Neill are a bloody cancer on society. They seem obsessed with categorizing people and pointing out the differences between people, rather than discussing the common ground we all share as humans. They are obsessed about gender, the colour of one's skins, their religion. All people like her do is create divisions and hatred between us.
midnight city wrote: » Remember that when you pay your TV licence next.
Widdershins wrote: » The crotch of Louises babygrow has a button-up flap. That's what the bulge is.
me_right_one wrote: » Should there be some sort of punishment for people like LON? I mean, if you went around saying all blacks are rapists, and you put up racist instead of misogynist on your twitter profile, surely you would be falling foul of hate-crime legislation? Imagine if I went on an internet site and said "every single white woman I know was raped by a black man". What would be an appropriate penalty for this?
Chaos Black wrote: » I'd rather that people's views don't get shutdown tbh, let the likes of Hopkins and O'Neill air their opinions, if someone is willing to give them a platform in media. If our society can't handle some different opinions and identify the outlandish ones, then we might have larger issues at play, then some professional spoofers/radicals. The real issues I think, is when the media don't invite the other side of the argument or challenge what people are pushing. I think most people know, Hopkins is selling crap. O'Neill? Honestly I don't know enough to say, but I doubt due to the topics she covers, the media is as inclined to critically question her.
me_right_one wrote: » Well thats the whole problem. There is NOBODY LET counter anything with non-liberal views these days. Whatever you think about gay marriage, abortion, or third wave SJW-type feminism, if you stick your head above the parapet and say you're not so sure about these things you get publicly ostracised straight away.
LLMMLL wrote: » Yeah which is why Breda o brien and David quinn are both columnists for 2 of the biggest irish papers......
me_right_one wrote: » .......who never actually get to say what they and everybody else is thinking. They can only provide a watered down version, and even at that, they're ridiculed just for having an opinion.
LLMMLL wrote: » They have a platform that barely anyone else in irish society have. Some movements would kill to have 2 weekly columns in the national press. Of course they're not going to write "KILL ALL GAYS" in their column. They're hardly ostracised.
