Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Matthew Poole,
We’re not, as far as we know, talking about actual paedophiles whose offending on video is pretty easy to spot, we’re talking about guys who fuck young-teen girls, and it’s mighty hard to tell from video whether she’s 13 or 15 or 16.
It's not clear whether they have posted videos of the acts, or just of themselves slut-shaming later on. I think it's the latter.
But why the hell haven't the police seized their phones and computers in search of evidence?
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The police say they "alerted" the school attended by the four teen rapists they talked to.
That school is Avondale College, a conservative school which is known to be less-than-welcoming to external sexual health services.
What, exactly, did the school do in response to the police "alert"? I would like to know that.
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Hard News: The Future of Television, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
And where would the good shows that are, or have been, on Choice go? They’ve aired quite a few BBC Documentary series that wouldn’t otherwise have aired free-to-air here, why do you want these gone?
Quite! I don't get that sentiment at all.
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Joseph Parker’s Ask.fm page
Beriah Hales’ Ask.fm page, in which he admits to having sex with a 14 year-old, along with several other men.
Exactly how much evidence do the police need?
It seems that some of these encounters maye have been consensual, which may be clouding the picture a little for police. But a 14 year-old?
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Okay, here's where Hales called himself a rapist, back in August. And still the police just did the hand-wringing?
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Emma Hart,
My friend, naturally, praised and validated her daughter’s wise decision to get herself away from these creeps – and also verbally confronted one of the creeps. I don’t think she realised at the time the extent of what was going on.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to izogi,
Excuse the ignorance, but is there any word on how isolated these guys are in what they’re doing?
My guess is that's it's at the very far margins of of a bunch of more common behaviours. As I said, there's a strong thread of the null empathy of troll-fame at work.
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Wow. I've just heard from someone who complained directly to Facebook about the RoastBuster page, some time ago. She was ignored.
And then, when 3 News calls, they take down the page, citing a breach of T&Cs.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Emma Hart,
Here’s what makes me so angry about that TV3 piece: the comments of the police. Repeatedly, they say they can’t lay charges because none of the victims has been “brave enough” to come forward. Brave enough.
Yes. I swore when I heard that on the report last night. And he kept saying it.
