Comments on: Final Thoughts On Kyle Payne

By: Hoyden About Town

Hoyden About Town — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:32:03 +0000

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By: A lot can happen in a week… « Doing Feminism

A lot can happen in a week… « Doing Feminism — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:51:04 +0000

[...] had to be last week. The week where the Tories dropped Bill C-484, Kyle Payne was sentenced to six months in jail, and McCain selected his running mate, Sarah Palin. To do all of these issues the minimal [...]

By: Kira

Kira — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:03:27 +0000

The next time some idiot tries to blame the paucity of rape and assault convictions in this country (this world) on he-said-she-said cases lacking sufficient “evidence”, I’m going to bring up this case to illustrate how even when there is PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, sexual assault is still not prosecuted as such.

By: hysperia

hysperia — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:53:59 +0000

Nothing’s changed for Payne. He still minimizes his criminal acts by calling them acts of “sexism and male domination”, as if being a sexist is absolutely equivalent to acts of sexual predation. I am really concerned that he won’t be on a sexual offenders directory, even if they are fairly useless things, but I’m heartened that the feminist blogosphere has “outted” him to some extent. It was also great to hear that the Prosecutor in the case used his blog words against him.

By: Payne Finale « mirabile dictu

Payne Finale « mirabile dictu — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:37:08 +0000

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By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:33:04 +0000

I’m both thrilled and saddened. I’m thrilled that he received jail time period. We all know the statistics on sexual assault and apparently there wasn’t sufficient evidence to bring a sexual assault case.

Not to mention he is now a felon. That’s a big deal. He’s going to have to explain at every job interview why he is a convicted felon. He is not likely to ever be licensed by the state to engage in any number of professions, particularly since it an attempted burglary conviction.

And he is on parole. Plus, god forbid, if he does commit another sexual assault he will be going back to jail to serve out his full term, which will hopeful be a disincentive to do it again.

All those things are good.

What’s bad, is that this woman was sexually assaulted and he is not being held accountable for that sexual assault. Instead he’s being held accountable for attempted burglary and invasion of privacy.

The prosecution had photographic and videographic evidence of this sexual assault and STILL s/he didn’t push for that charge.

What does it take? What on earth does it take to find someone guilty of sexual assault if photos and a video of the crime are not sufficient evidence?

By: Depresso

Depresso — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:26:34 +0000

I was heartily amused to see that he’s updated what we ‘deserve to know’, twice. The ‘apology’ that is directly addressed to the woman he assaulted just made me want to throw up. “Look at me! Look at me! I’m apologising! Loooook! Me! Me! MEMEMEME!”

Ok, so I was paraphrasing there…