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Searching for videos of girls being groped

October 14, 2009 By HKearl

I am deeply disturbed by some of the referring terms my blog statistics say people are using when they happen upon my blog. Some recent ones include:

  • “interactive breast grope game”
  • “any girls who want to f*ck a stranger?”
  • “pictures of how to wolf whistle”

Literally every day several people come to my blog via search terms that are some variation of “dirty school girl” and “groping girls video” because of posts like these ones which talk about men groping women in public and this story about a man asking to take a picture of a young woman in a “dirty schoolgirl outfit”. I take it they are disappointed when they get here since I speak out against these problems.

I try to block out how many predators there are who are making money off child porn and misogynistic, racist, homophobic, size-ist adult porn and how many more people are spending their time and money consuming it. But each time I check my stats I’m reminded that they’re out there.

Not that the messed up predators are probably still reading this post (which some of them will find when I tag it with “groping” and “dirty school girl outfit”), but I still want to say to them:

Looking at pictures and videos of girls being groped and sexualized in school outfits is disgusting and you are a predator who clearly has no respect for girls or women. Shame on you for contributing to a culture that thinks it’s okay to make money from girls’/women’s humiliation and a culture that says it’s entertainment when boys/men assault girls/women and harass them at home, school, work, and on the street.

That is all.

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Filed Under: street harassment Tagged With: child pornography, dirty school girl outfit, groping, groping video, porn, pornography, sexual assault, sexual harassment, shame on child predators, street harassment

Chemical Castration for Sex Criminals?

October 6, 2009 By HKearl

Manuel da Cruz kidnapped Marie-Christine Hodeau while she was jogging near a forest, 30 miles south of Paris, France, last week. She was able to call the police from the trunk of the car and gave them the make and registration of the vehicle. Cruz killed her before police could help (she actually escaped at one point when he stopped to change cars but he caught her again). The articles I read did not say if she was sexually assaulted too; it does not seem like it. The information she provided led to his arrest and the police recovered her body in the forest.

This is the extra kicker: Cruz, a father of four, had been sentenced to 11 years in prison for the kidnap and rape of a 13-year-old girl in early 2000s, but he was released seven years later (and he returned to the same place where his victim lives)!

Rightly so, this case is generating an outcry against the French judicial system.

It’s also generating pressure for the “hardening of a law introduced in 2005 which allows sexual offenders to volunteer for so-called ‘chemical castration’ – the use of anti-hormone treatment to reduce or destroy the sexual appetite.” This is already used in Germany, Belgium, and Denmark.

Last week, the justice minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, said that “she would propose a draft law by the end of this month to toughen the existing legislation. She said, however, that chemical castration would remain ‘voluntary.'”

I know very little about this topic, but I’ve found out that chemical castration is reversible and is used to diminish or switch off the libido/sex drive, but that only lasts as long as the treatment. This legislation and mindset suggests that rapists rape because of an uncontrollable sex drive – but aren’t issues like power and control more at play? And if so, will chemical castration really help?

What do you know/think?

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Filed Under: News stories Tagged With: chemical castration, france, manuel da cruz, marie-christine hodeau, rape, sex drive, sexual assault, sexual predators

Celebrating FIVE YEARS of building safer communities

September 4, 2009 By HKearl

I’m happy to pass along news about an exciting milestone and celebratory event for my NYC friends RightRides. RightRides offers LGBTQ folks and women safe, free rides home Friday & Saturday nights. Co-founder and executive director Oraia Reid says,

“We’ve reached incredible milestones this year – 2,000 safe rides home and five years of service!…RightRides is made possible thanks to over 150 driving team and dispatching volunteers, our vehicle sponsor Zipcar and the generosity of supporters like you! Please celebrate with us at the Friends of RightRides Social!”

Friends of RightRides Social

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Anthony Lawrence–Belfair Showroom
53 West 23rd Street, 9th Floor
New York, New York
6 – 9 p.m.

Roaring ’20’s and 30’s swing music provided by Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra. Hors d’oeuvres will be served plus complimentary wine and spirits from St-Germain, Smirnoff, Tanqueray, Admiral Imports. There will be a silent auction, awards ceremony, VIP special reception and more! Semi-formal or business attire requested.

With the Distinguished Defender Awards honoring:

Joanne Smith, Executive Director & Founder,
Girls for Gender Equity

Sonia Ossorio, President,
New York City Chapter, National Organization for Women

2 RightRides Volunteers (to be announced)

Tickets

  • $125 VIP ticket rate, includes private event reception, drink specials, incredible gift bags and more!
  • $50 general admission ticket offered until Tuesday, September 15th $75 thereafter and at door
  • Are you a RightRides volunteer? You receive complimentary admission and can bring a guest for a discounted ticket rate. Are you a student or do you work in the non profit sector? We can offer you a discounted ticket rate too. Please contact us for more info!

All funds raised directly support RightRides, offering women and LGBTQ individuals a free, late night ride home to address gender-based assault. $15 of every ticket is non-deductible. For every general admission ticket sold, RightRides can provide 5 safe rides home. Thank you for your support. Thank you to our Supreme Supporter Sponsor Citi Community Relations and our Progressive Protector Sponsor Zipcar.

Learn more or purchase tickets

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Filed Under: Events Tagged With: celebration, New York City, oraia reid, rightrides, safe rides home, sexual assault

Serial groper along “the View”

September 2, 2009 By HKearl

Via WorldWidePhotoWalk
Echo Park, via WorldWidePhotoWalk

In separate incidents, police say an unidentified man grabbed three young girls from behind and groped them as they walked on streets around Belmont and Bellevue streets (“the View”), overlooking Echo Park in Los Angeles, CA. In two of the incidents a lone girl was walking to school along a pedestrian walkway. In a third incident, he groped a 12-year-old girl walking with her mother. Chances are he’s groped other girls who haven’t reported him.

From ABC News in Los Angeles, CA:

“The suspect is described as a Hispanic man with a dark complexion, between 18 and 30-years-old, about 5’4″ tall, around 150 pounds.  He has short black hair, a mustache, and acne.  Anyone with any information is asked to call Rampart Division detectives at (213) 484-3624.”

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Filed Under: News stories, street harassment Tagged With: belmont and bellevue streets, california, echo park, los angeles, serial groper, sexual assault, the view

Serial groper along "the View"

September 2, 2009 By HKearl

Via WorldWidePhotoWalk
Echo Park, via WorldWidePhotoWalk

In separate incidents, police say an unidentified man grabbed three young girls from behind and groped them as they walked on streets around Belmont and Bellevue streets (“the View”), overlooking Echo Park in Los Angeles, CA. In two of the incidents a lone girl was walking to school along a pedestrian walkway. In a third incident, he groped a 12-year-old girl walking with her mother. Chances are he’s groped other girls who haven’t reported him.

From ABC News in Los Angeles, CA:

“The suspect is described as a Hispanic man with a dark complexion, between 18 and 30-years-old, about 5’4″ tall, around 150 pounds.  He has short black hair, a mustache, and acne.  Anyone with any information is asked to call Rampart Division detectives at (213) 484-3624.”

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Filed Under: News stories, street harassment Tagged With: belmont and bellevue streets, california, echo park, los angeles, serial groper, sexual assault, the view

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