Is there an award for being the most insensitive, arrogant, misogynist asshole in the world? Because if there is, I have a candidate. And if there isn’t, I’m about to start up this award and mail a larger-than-life sized trophy in the shape of a cunt to Julian Assange.
I think I may even declare him my mortal enemy.
What’s the latest, you ask? The comparison of his legal issues to being gang raped. Uuuuggghhh!!!
Okay, to be fair, it wasn’t Assange himself who said this awful thing this time. Nope, it was his mother. Maybe she’s the source of his misogyny?
In her words:
“It’s a real David and Goliath situation,” Christine Assange said.
“You’ve got misuse of the European arrest warrant, first time ever that it’s been used this way.
“I would say that what we’re looking at here is political and legal gang rape of my son.”
Still, I don’t think my anger is misplaced. He still maintains that this case is a ridiculous waste of his time and continues to compare his political persecution (and I’m not denying that he is being politically persecuted) to the very types of sexual assault that he himself is accused of committing. He demonstrates no concern that the women accusing him would have felt violated by their sexual encounters with him.
To clarify (because there’s so much misinformation), the Judge in his case has summarised the claims against him as:
That in one case Julian Assange “deliberately molested the injured party by acting in a manner designed to violate her sexual integrity”.
His actions were allegedly violent and included holding her arms, forcing apart her legs and putting his body weight on top of her to prevent her movement, later rubbing his erect penis against her body.
Claims by the second woman are that he had unprotected sex with her while she slept, knowing she would not consent to unprotected sex and therefore constituting rape.
That’s some serious shit. This man needs to be held accountable for these actions and a message needs to be sent everywhere that the violation of autonomy is never okay, regardless of how much sexual pleasure it may provide you.
