OK, so I guess this is what has really been making me cranky. Here in the UK over the past week we have (thank you, Goddess) seen three men convicted in separate, high-profile, sex-related murder cases. This has been very convenient for our government, because it proved an ideal time for them to admit that, prior to many previous assertions to the contrary, they had actually been merrily helping the CIA ferry people around the world to places where they could be tortured. That piece of news was very quickly forgotten by our sex-obsessed media.

But now three evil men are behind bars and us women can all sleep more easily at night, can’t we? The hell we can. Over in The Guardian Kira Cochrane asks how three openly misogynist men with long records of violence against women could possibly have got away with it for so long. Why, she asks, hadn’t anyone complained about them beforehand? Well:

Maybe they had read about the fact that only 5.3% of rape cases ends in a conviction or that one in five women are abused in childhood, or that one in four women experience domestic violence in their lifetime and mostly it all just goes unpunished.

Right. Raping women is OK. Beating women up is OK. That’s their fault. They asked for it. It is only actually murdering them that is wrong. And guess what? That’s not really the fault of the men concerned. It is the fault of their mothers for bringing them up badly.

I’m going to keep that article on hand ready for the next time that someone tells me that feminism isn’t necessary any more.