The Free Ched Evans group seem incapable of understanding the basic legal definition of rape in England/ Wales, so their inability to understand harassment doesn't seem so shocking. In many ways, I feel sorry for Natasha Massey. Her boyfriend is serving 5 years in prison for rape. Learning your partner is a rapist is an incredibly difficult thing and doing so in the public eye is even worse. Massey is also clearly surrounded by sycophants and rape apologists. She is fighting to free a man from prison who raped another woman and no one around her seems to be pointing out how unhealthy her obsession with trying to prove Evans' innocent actually is. I empathise with the position Massey finds herself in but what she is doing to another woman is unforgivable.
I am even angrier at ITV news for considering this interview "news" and giving a platform to rape apologists to spread myths about rape. It is possible that ITV news was planning on doing a real interview and challenging every single rape myth that Massey spouts, but, somehow, I doubt that. Considering the treatment Evans' victim received from the media during the trial, I doubt the conviction of her rapist would change things. I have no faith that ITV news will have bothered to check the legal situation and learn the real truths about rape (conveniently available here).
I do not trust the media to accurately represent the reality of rape.
They haven't bothered to do so yet, I can't imagine why tonight's scheduled interview would have been any different.
It serves the capitalist-Patriarchy's interests to continue propagating rape myths.
Why would this be any different?
@stfumisogynists wrote a brilliant letter of complaint to ITV here. Owing to the activism of numerous feminists, ITV has pulled the interview with Massey.
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