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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Some people are just plain evil. Whether it's nature or nurture, I don't know. But it seems to me that if some people can be born a genius, others can be born evil - We don't really know enough about how the brain works to be able to know for sure.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    You’re right B.  I haven’t watched the true story yet, but Martin Clunes was very good, shame he wasnt there at the end.
    What annoys me with that policeman now,  his fellow workers knew what he was like. He’d shown himself in a fast food place I think it was and his mates were laughing,  that’s not normal for men of that age and downright disgusting for policeman.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I agree with everything said here, but I do question why women want to feel safe wandering around the streets at any time of Night.
    I certainly would not wander around the streets in Sheffield late at night, it is sad, but a lot of places are not safe at night, man or woman.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited October 2021
    Did you watch the first series too @Lyn? The Levi Bellfield case. Utterly vile. That wee girl Milly Dowler should still be alive, along with many others, if mistakes hadn't been made. Again - a manipulative, bullying, abusive control freak. 

    Seriously?
    https://uk.yahoo.com/news/police-boss-criticised-for-saying-women-need-to-be-streetwise-in-wake-of-everard-case-145521764.html
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • CharlotteFCharlotteF Posts: 337
    punkdoc said:
    I agree with everything said here, but I do question why women want to feel safe wandering around the streets at any time of Night.
    I certainly would not wander around the streets in Sheffield late at night, it is sad, but a lot of places are not safe at night, man or woman.
    I want to feel as safe as a man at any time of night. I'd like to be able to make a risk assessment on my chances of being mugged or having a drunk person try to pick a fight with me while I walk alone in the dark. That is not a luxury we have because we always have the risk of a man deciding they are entitled to our bodies. Whether to the extent of raping and murdering us, or 'just' the depressingly every-day scenario that almost every woman has experienced of being harassed or groped or otherwise made to feel unsafe. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I was a teenager in the 50/60’s. It was just the same then as now,  we wouldn’t have walk alone at night, my friend and I had to walk through an underpass to get home. We would stand at the top and listen for quite a while in case there was someone there, it echoed you could hear everything, when it was clear, we’d run like mad.
    We had the raincoat brigade then,  men coming back from the war mentally scared, I was propositioned by a police man, he asked me outright,  I told him where to go, he thought being a police man gave him the right to have what he wanted., you’d expect it to be different in this day,  I don’t think it ever will be.
    Men think very differently to women, they always will. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2021
    The thing is …. no one should be unsafe on our streets at any time of the day or night …. whatever their colour, age, gender or any other factor. 

    It is not acceptable that anyone should feel unsafe anywhere in the UK just walking down the street. 

    It may be a counsel of perfection, but unless we keep stating that it is not ok for anyone to be raped, mugged or assaulted, wherever they are at any time of day or night, then it becomes acceptable by default. 

    “Well what did you expect, walking there at that time of night?

    The next line is … “you were asking for it” …… and that’s the rapist’s charter 😡 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • CharlotteFCharlotteF Posts: 337
    Just read this comment piece, which articulates the anger many of us are feeling pretty well:
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/01/women-prey-authority-violence-against-women
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I  absolutely agree,  @Dovefromabove   but what’s to be done,  no one liked it years ago, it’s not just now this is happening 
    Same in my mum’s day,  her mum got caught in the early 1900’s  and had a baby,  poor little thing died,    same in mine and same in the youngsters of today.  More bobbies on the beat, I don’t know what’s to be done.  Vigilantes on the streets near to the clubs and pubs, women armed, what is the answer.
    Personally I would not risk walking out alone at night simply because I should be able too. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Politicians need to be honest about what it costs to live in one of the worlds richest countries @Lyn. 

    You can’t run a proper police force, health system or education system for that matter, while constantly promising the  electorate that it won’t cost any more money …. do comfortably off families want their sons and daughters to be safe on the streets, or will they continue to vote with their wallets rather than their brains?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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