The Great Stink, by Laurie Penny

[boxofdelights]

"Restorative justice is meant to be a way of delivering some sort of restitution within communities without involving the legal system — and a lot of communities have legitimate reasons not to want the police poking around in their lives. That’s what it is meant to be in theory. In practice, what it has often turned out to mean is a lot of women doing a lot of emotional heavy lifting and being variously demonized for causing trouble while men promise to change and don’t."

https://longreads.com/2018/02/14/the-great-stink/

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Ooooh. Ooooh!

The question of what we do with abusers in our midst, abusers who some of us might love, has been tearing apart communities I have been close to for years. I have seen it happen again and again. Truths long hidden are spoken, and before long it is the people telling those truths — usually women — who are blamed, not for lying, but for causing harm — as if harm were not already being done, had not already been done, for years.

I wonder how many of the R.J. panel suggestions make it in to WisCon this year!

[enemyofperfect]

Oh, I love the sewer analogy. Laurie Penny is so frequently so great.