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prejudicial attitudes to rape to infect our society. The possibilities of real change must not be wasted

is just over two weeks since the higher tax in London, Alison Saunders, gave a chill warning that "almost demonization" of women by the media was having a negative impact in the British justice system and resulting in acquittals in rape cases. This evidence echoes given by the violence against women in search of the media report inaccurate and harmful Leveson of rape sends a strong and consistent justice system - and the public - usually women "mourn the violation, "the victims of rape is not considered, and that potential perpetrators that they get away

two cases scheduled for this week dark confirmation of these concerns. In a trial in Ireland of the author, who said she had been raped and imprisoned for three men who had to be placed directly in front of them to identify, by Mr Justice Paul Carney - a test who left his "visibily terror", according to press reports. The next day, when she appeared in court after an apparent attempted suicide, he was imprisoned. And in the Court of Appeal in London, a woman is to appeal against his conviction for obstruction of justice. His crime? Falsely retract an allegation of repeated rape by her husband. To be clear, it was agreed that their initial allegations of systematic sexual violence was real and that its removal was false. Hard to believe that the case is not a history book on medieval justice, sitting next fables about the actions and the witch ducking.

But perhaps these cases are not so extraordinary. Every part of our society seems to be infected with prejudicial attitudes to rape, from the Attorney General's comments about rape last year, Facebook pages that promote sexual violence, the occasional use of rape jokes by best comedians and the outpouring of misogyny in the male students of the university sites. No wonder that polls consistently show that about one third of people in the UK believe that if a woman is raped then it must be at least partially responsible if they do not behave like a "perfect" victim, either so it has been used or had been drinking. And of course, the authors tend to focus on women who drank, so that the attitudes of society and strengthen the conspiracy with the author. Recent research by Middlesex University found that boys and convicted rapists magazines use the same kind of language when talking about women.

We have to face the messages we receive through the media - in the case of our newspapers and the misrepresentation of false accusations of rape, whether sexualized clips and games where women are represented as sexual objects rather than pure pleasure of men, or threats of sexual violence that women writers and bloggers get to close the debate. We must use the fact that the development of technologies, the explosion of the Internet and the ubiquity of mobile phones - has massively increased the ways in which women and girls can be arranged, abuse, harassment and operation. And criticism, women in all communities must be able to access specialized support class that rape crisis centers provide, to help them deal with sexual violence. And that means our politicians showing leadership in this area. In short, we need a revolution in how to understand and fight against sexual violence.

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