'This is not just about rape and murder. It’s about the unwanted 'flirtatious' comments, jokey banter, the unasked-for direct messages on social media, the constant low-level hum of threat and entitlement' | Writes Boris Starling
If it reads jarringly put like that: good. It’s supposed to. We are so used to the insipid “officialise” of crime statistics – for the UK in 2020, there were 62,000 rapes and 1.6million women suffered domestic violence – that we no longer see what this kind of phrasing hides. “There were”. “Suffered”. Passive tense. These things didn’t just happen. Men did them.
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