Feminist Peace Network

Many thanks to Jennifer Drew for passing along this heinous idiocy. I would comment further but I cannot think of anything that can be remotely expressed in civilized language:

The BBC once known as a respected and objective organisation has sunk to
a new low in its battle for ratings. A programme entitled ‘The Verdict’
is due to be screened in February, 2007 wherein twelve
supposed celebrities will be asked to deliberate in a fictionalised
rape trial.

Full details can be obtained via:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1970725,00.html

Among the celebrities is one Stan Collymore former male footballer who
was villifed in media after physically assaulting his then-girlfriend
Ulrika Jonsson in a bar in 1998. In 2004 Collymore was caught ‘dogging’
a practice wherein predominantly men visit parks and other open areas
after dark in order to voyeuristically watch female and male strangers
engage in various sexual activities.

Men raping women is never a trivial subject but the BBC obviously
believes such a programme is acceptable and since part of the storyline
focuses on two young women extracting money from a tabloid newspaper
after selling their story this will doubtless reinforce the widely held
media and public perception that women rape survivors are not only
man-haters who routinely make false allegations against innocent and
respectable men, but also are ‘dirty conniving money-grabbing -’ I have
no doubt that other international media outlets will seize their chance
of making similar programmes all in the name of so-called free
enterprise.

Complaints can be made to the BBC at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint_step1.shtml or by writing
to Anthony Salz, Acting BBC Chair, BBC Complaints, PO Box 1922, Glasgow,
G1 3WT.

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