Antarctic scientists plead for help after ‘sexual assault and threats’ by colleague

The body of this article also only mentions physical assault. It appears the telegraph completely made up the sexual assault part and is whipping people into a frenzy over it.

Plus fear of being believed, self blame and feeling of needing to be polite.

Don't put this on the victims. Women are doing their best to defend themselves.

Unfortunately there's a culture of sexual assault at Antarctica, where the "boys will be boys" crowd overrule the kind of thing @the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world just suggested.

I am sad for the way you were raised, in my entire extended family there is not one woman who would have put up with it or had any thought other than self-defense at whatever cost.

Absolutely 100%. I think basic self-defense should be a required course in middle school or high school, especially for women. And I would encourage any woman or any person for that matter to take charge of their personal defense, in whatever way is most comfortable for them. Carry a gun, carry a taser, carry pepper spray, take martial arts classes like Krav, etc.

Have you watched the handmaids tale series? Spoiler alert, but

the main character starts out seemingly powerless, being repeatedly assaulted etc. By the 3rd series she's murdered one of the state sponsored rapists by stabbing him with a pen I think, then the other women hide the evidence and secretly cremate the guy in a furnace.

The lesson I took is that people are always more powerful than they think and solidarity is very important.

Also that the attitude #TraumatiseThemBack is valid when dealing with evil.

Icl, I'd say it's the opposite in terms of we need less fatherlessness, not just for girls but boys as well; not only does no father figure often lead to degenerocity, particularly in women, but also since a father would care about protecting his daughter more than anything (hopefully), they can help/teach their daughters to protect themselves.

Women naturally being more compassionate, definitely leads to them being more vulnerable though, I agree.

Amazing, we've gone from "allegations of physical assault" to "allegations of sexual assault" to "documented rapist"

None of you should ever express any opinions about anything, ever. You're clearly not up to the responsibility.

Ya'll are kinder than I am. I say put him outside and let the problem solve itself.

I'm not saying anything has to be built or installed, just rigged/signposted in physical reality and negotiated as social reality

Surprising that they're still cut-off since it's the Antarctic summer right now.