[Closed] This kind if sh*t makes me mad!!!

Drac - Moderator
So the moral is she should have kept quiet and not gone to the papers, because if we don't know about or talk about it the world is better off. Yeah I'm glad I didn't grow up in the sixties then.

No, not at all, I'd been making the point that it just wouldn't have happened to a Blind Woman in the cities/early sixties there was a code of honour even amongst thieves and thugs and acceptable level to what was and wasn't 'done'. The rest was highlighting the probability of why there are so many latter day abuse scandals, I won't say it was common place but I guess kids were more streetwise as to the likelihood of being fiddled with by nonses, unless you were unlucky enough to have been in boarding school where likely you'd have been buggered senseless. It's also the reason for scepticism about Yewtree, why didn't all those women complain at the time, it's not as if nothing would have been done about it, the reason they didn't was because of the 'shame' factor and the no win scenario of an embarrassing court case, at least these days there is good or bad, the compensation carrot.

Cougar - Moderator
Your argument appears to be that in your glory days

Not my 'glory' days, if such a period existed, for me it was probably the eighties, no back then I was just another abuse victim that dealt with it the way we all used to, by laughing it off, luckily no penetration in my case, just the usual hand up the shorts trouser leg by one of the Scoutmasters.

derekfish - Member

Well given the fact none of you lived through the period and I [s]did[/s] read the Daily Mail and fantasise about it on regular basis and this is the first I've heard of intimidation of a blind woman, I'm afraid as usual your perceptions are as warped as normal.

No, not at all, I'd been making the point that it just wouldn't have happened to a Blind Woman in the cities/early sixties there was a code of honour even amongst thieves and thugs and acceptable level to what was and wasn't 'done'.

Yeah right you keep believing that.