Tag: Robbie Burns

• They didn’t ask for it

  Sometimes, you just have to take a stand! Sometimes, enough is enough! How many times do we read about lawyers –or even judges- wondering about the effect of clothing on sexual assaults? And it’s not just the criminal justice system that asks the question; I fear that it is a question that floats just beneath…

  gozzter

  July 4, 2018

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  BBC news, blame, Blank Noise, Cause and Effect, clothing, I Never Ask For It, India, Jasmeen Patheja, Justice, post hoc propter hoc, Robbie Burns, sexual assaults, sexual harassment

• Does the Best Safety Really Lie in Fear?

  There are many unheralded benefits of age, one of which is invisibility -changing from a potential threat into a banality. A non-entity for whomever might otherwise be at risk. I can watch from shadows while the world strides past –on the street, in a bus, in a coffee shop. Wherever. Men, until they age it…

  gozzter

  April 25, 2018

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  Age, BBC news, danger, Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray, Durham Law School, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), fear, gender divide, harassment, hormones, insecurity, Liz Kelly, panic, power, Robbie Burns, safety work, sexual harassment, The Right Amount of Panic, understanding

• The Tales We Write in Water

  We are all stories, aren’t we? Largely untold, and seldom transcribed, we travel through our lives like cups filled to overflowing, spilling drops like patterns on a dirty tablecloth. It’s often not so much a reticence that keeps our information bottled up, as opportunity to share it. It’s why, I suppose, there is such a…

  gozzter

  November 8, 2017

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  altered perspective, BBC Future stories, catharsis, counsellors, diaries, dog park, James Pennebaker, pencil and paper, pencils, psychology experiment, Robbie Burns, stories, therapists, To a Louse, urban meadow