Underwear in the Irish Parliament — #ThisIsNotConsent
Just as I never thought the word ‘pussy’ would ever publicly be used by respected journalists, neither could anything have prepared me this morning for the fact that by the end of the day I would furiously be posting a picture of my own underwear on fucking Twitter. But here we are, friends. This is the world we live in now. And for once the regressive sexism is not coming from ‘Mercuh. It’s coming from the land of my Catholic ancestors.
On November 5th, 20fucking18, a defense attorney said of a 17-year-old plaintiff: “You have to look at the way she was dressed,” He had the audacious callousness to hold up the panties the girl was wearing the night she alleges she was raped — like they were forensic fucking evidence of consent. “She was wearing a thong with a lace front.” Since this unnamed attorney is now a cartoon villain in my mind I assume he leaned toward the jury and repeated for emphasis: A lace front, ladies and gentlemen. A lace front. Like it was video footage of her taking him by the collar and audibly purring Take. Me. Now.
90 minutes later the 27-year-old man accused of raping her was acquitted.
