Comments on: Judge: I’d call it rape, but I don’t like your job

By: Defense Attorney Calls Rape Victims “Whores,” and Worse : The Curvature

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:33:39 +0000

[...] idea that a woman who has sex for money is physically and emotionally incapable of being raped is absolutely nothing new. It has been around since the dawn of rape itself. The idea that a [...]

By: Anti-Sex Worker Bigotry Makes Its Way Into Rape Trial : The Curvature

Anti-Sex Worker Bigotry Makes Its Way Into Rape Trial : The Curvature — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:37:10 +0000

[...] is an awful, terrible place, but because precedent has been set there. Philadelphia is home to the notorious Judge Deni, a judge who determined that an alleged gang rape victim could not charge her attackers with rape [...]

By: BadMormon » Prostitution = Adult who’s not allowed to say “No!”

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:38:16 +0000

[...] why silence now? Is it not self defense when you’re working as a prostitute? Are we back to the legal system’s “prostitutes can’t be raped” theory? Does this dehumanizing, misogynistic and rape apologist myth now apply to children, as [...]

By: No on Prop. 8: The Greatest Of These Is Love « Pizza Diavola

No on Prop. 8: The Greatest Of These Is Love « Pizza Diavola — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:32:41 +0000

[...] and sex workers are too often treated as subhuman criminals (remember when a judge ruled that gang-raping a sex worker at gunpoint was “theft of services” and not rape?) rather than as human beings with full civil rights. Decriminalization is an important step toward [...]

By: Sexual Harassment Required for Survival of Human Race « Questioning Transphobia

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:28:31 +0000

[...] This is right up there with judging rape as theft of services. [...]

By: mik

mik — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:09:01 +0000

the judge is an idiot but she won’t be removed from the bench. she’ll carry on in her well-paid job and take early retirement into a large pension and chauffeur-driven lifestyle. EVERYTHING in the world is decided by the people in power, right? and they act on what the people want, whether anyone admits it or not. And the people want what the media tells them to want, because people are stupid en masse. And the media says what the people in power tells them to say.

So if we’re told that young single mothers are the dregs of society, wasting tax money and in their situation because of their own fault, then thats what they are.

By: Freya Fuhrman

Freya Fuhrman — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:57:10 +0000

What kind of a person is Judge Deni? Just because a woman prostituted herself doesn’t mean that she deserved to be gangraped at gunpoint! What a misogynist!!

She should be removed from the bench & ordered to get some counseling.

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:03:59 +0000

That is absolutely RIDICULOUS! I can’t believe that at all. And I was thinking the same thing as the above commenter, Rachel. Does this judge not think that she too, could be raped? I was speaking with a therapist of mine and she gave me some class A consoling thoughts on being able to “get over”, imagine this, multiple childhood rape, molestation, and incest, and she said that just because one knows a lot of facts and figures on something, that does not mean that what they know a lot about could not happen to them. If you know a lot about rape statistics and what causes depression, rage, PTSD, etc. it does not protect you from something like that happening.

I don’t know, I ramble a lot? Yeah, that’s it. But I do agree, this judge should be removed immediately.

By: brandann

brandann — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:26:34 +0000

akeeyu~

i can’t help but worry that cases like this are only one step away from such thinking. soon it will be wives/girlfriends/prostitutes whatever, they are all just property anyway…somedays i feel we haven’t made any progress at all.

excuse me, i have to go barf now!

By: Cara

Cara — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:57:30 +0000

Well yeah. When you’re a horrible person, only prostitutes deserve that kind of shit.