Little Miss Rendell

Hello lovelies! The post this week will follow on from last weeks, 'Is Fifty Shades normalizing rape?', where I questioned whether the nature of the narrative in this book made unacceptable sexual behaviour seem like the norm. This week I want to delve into the topic of victim shaming, an example of this occurred recently. The Sun recently published a headline that read 'woman drank six jagerbombs in ten minutes on the night she was raped and murdered'. The public united in slating the tabloid for victim shaming the poor girl that this happened to. The message that this despicable headline sends is that the girl is responsible for her rape and murder because she had a bit to drink. Everyone, not just women, are entitled to go out and have fun without having to fear for their lives. A question that crossed my mind is what headline would the editors of The Sun have written if the victim was a man? Would they have blamed his alcohol in take? This links to my post from ...

Hello lovelies! This weeks post, as you can tell from the title, concerns matters that may upset you so if you are not comfortable in discussing rape do not read this post. I read the entire franchise of 'Fifty shades' when I was 17 and I have to say I was completely hooked. Everything about it intrigued me and I completely loved it. At that time I saw many people talking about rape related to the books and I used to defend 'Fifty Shades'. I couldn't see where they were coming from, Ana and Christian consented to each other and to me that was it. Rape didn't occur as there was consent involved, a very black and white issue, case closed, right? Wrong. I'm not suggesting that every sexual occurrence in these books is rape, for me it only happens once throughout the novels. I re read the books recently as the second film is due to be released early next year and I wanted to revisit the story so I had it fresh in my mind for the movie. There is one point in...