My mother and I are both really enjoying this series. You lay it out well - it's complicated stuff - many details for the uninitiated. And we aren't getting this info from any other press right now.
I wonder if you followed or were aware of the somewhat similar attach on a public male figure in Scotland - Alex Salmond former SNP first minister - who was also found not guilty on all sexual assault allegations in 2019, I believe, (https://wingsoverscotland.com/ covered the issue well) yet was still smeared publicly - as if he still 'got away with it' by the current SNP leadership.
It's disappointing to me - as a woman who wants to believe other women on the often difficult to prove issues of sexual assault - to see other women and some men - accepting all allegations as true without requiring a fair trial, and then when there is one - to not accept the verdict or bother to understand the details of the verdict.
And it seems this is a cynical political tool now being used by those in power or those who don't consider how they might feel if attacked without the right of reply or a fair trial. It's a very slippery slope. And of course it makes it harder for women and men who have legitimate complaints about sexual assault that CAN be proved.
It seems a particular sickness of mind for people on the 'left ' or artsie circles these days. There are a lot of fantasy beliefs being shared as fact in the pubic and especially the social media sphere these days.
I hope blogs like yours and court cases like this one - that break the facts down in lucid detail are an antidote to that kind of blind obedience.
I hope that you will put all your research in this in a book. I also hope that somehow Steven Galloway can be encouraged to write again. He is a talented writer and a seemingly decent human being who did not deserve to be treated in this outrageous way. Canadian literature has been diminished by his absence.
My mother and I are both really enjoying this series. You lay it out well - it's complicated stuff - many details for the uninitiated. And we aren't getting this info from any other press right now.
Thank you so much Dawn. Glad you are enjoying it. Lots more to come.
I wonder if you followed or were aware of the somewhat similar attach on a public male figure in Scotland - Alex Salmond former SNP first minister - who was also found not guilty on all sexual assault allegations in 2019, I believe, (https://wingsoverscotland.com/ covered the issue well) yet was still smeared publicly - as if he still 'got away with it' by the current SNP leadership.
It's disappointing to me - as a woman who wants to believe other women on the often difficult to prove issues of sexual assault - to see other women and some men - accepting all allegations as true without requiring a fair trial, and then when there is one - to not accept the verdict or bother to understand the details of the verdict.
And it seems this is a cynical political tool now being used by those in power or those who don't consider how they might feel if attacked without the right of reply or a fair trial. It's a very slippery slope. And of course it makes it harder for women and men who have legitimate complaints about sexual assault that CAN be proved.
It seems a particular sickness of mind for people on the 'left ' or artsie circles these days. There are a lot of fantasy beliefs being shared as fact in the pubic and especially the social media sphere these days.
I hope blogs like yours and court cases like this one - that break the facts down in lucid detail are an antidote to that kind of blind obedience.
I hope that you will put all your research in this in a book. I also hope that somehow Steven Galloway can be encouraged to write again. He is a talented writer and a seemingly decent human being who did not deserve to be treated in this outrageous way. Canadian literature has been diminished by his absence.
Amen. I would like nothing better than a new book by SG.