Everyone’s Invited...

[WindyCommon]

This seems to be gathering momentum, with the police now involved. It’s a disturbing story in many ways, not least in terms of the alacrity with which the tabloid press have presented it as a focused on “elite private schools”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56549...

Allegations about sexual abuse in schools involve more than only private institutions in London, a senior Met Police officer has said. Several independent schools in the capital have been accused of failing to deal with a "rape culture", in claims written on the Everyone's Invited site.
Det Supt Mel Laremore told the BBC more than 100 institutions are named and it was "a national issue". The website's founder said the focus on private schools was "disappointing".
Everyone's Invited was set up last year as a place where victims can post anonymous accounts of abuse they had suffered. t has now received more than 5,000 testimonies, including accounts from people as young as nine.


https://schoolsweek.co.uk/everyones-invited-rape-c...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9357225/T...

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/lessons...

Edited by WindyCommon on Sunday 28th March 08:10

[Electro1980]

Famous names get more attention. Of course the media are going to be more interested in an internationally known name than a satisfactory comprehensive in some pit village. Same reason I would expect any story about universities to focus on Oxbridge rather than, say, Aston or DeMontford..

[Randy Winkman]

I'm sure that some stories will focus on the "elite" issue for the reason given above. But the Mail story in the opening post is 2 weeks old and yesterday the Mail article on this issue made it quite clear the story isn't just about public schools.

[Jim the Sunderer]

I hear the bourgeois lads at Durham University are sex pests and rapists.

Not necessarily a lot of them, but the papers showed some leaked group chats saying all sorts of abhorrent stuff.

Edited by Jim the Sunderer on Sunday 28th March 10:22

[WindyCommon]

I included the DM link for a reason. This story was nowhere until the Mail pushed it into class-war territory with its “Top £20k-a-year London private school has a rape culture” headlines. It’s now being rowed back from there, on the basis that it “...mischaracterises the reality of rape culture as being only present in certain areas, among certain people, when in fact it is everywhere”. Both the underlying story and its media portrayal are disturbing.

[pquinn]

The only slight word of caution is that 'rape culture' as a phrase is steeped in a history of rad fem campaigning.

If crimes like sexual assault or sexual harassment are happening we should call them out as such, not use a slogan.