• Why do we women make millions of excuses for perfectly adult men who have bad behaviour?????? - Louise
  • Excellent piece, Tracey. The notion that a sixteen year old could somehow invite abuse, rape, violence... is preposterous yet we hear these tired old cliches regularly. Williams' foolish (and dangerous) comments reflect more on her than on the young victim and simply perpetuate ignorance and stereotyping. - Lee-Anne
  • I think that it's time society put focus on the perpetrators. If the stat is 1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted, then what is the stat on the % of men who sexually assault? We never hear this. That might change the focus of the discussion somewhat! - Pam Harrison
  • I would like to remind people that the ancient Greek word IDIOT, meant he who does not vote. - sue Bell
  • I could have died. I did not. Something kept me going. Spirit and all those brave other women as I have donesurvived rape and abuse by men. I didn't even talk about what had happened. Blurred it in my unconscious. When, finally, I did start talking about what had happened to me, I was shocked by "don't be so negative" and "I believe you were raped'(just don't go on about it). Slurping and swaggering as I do now across the polite boundaries of the un-nice~as I have done before~ as we have done before~ I suppose it depends on the circles you move in, as to whether or not, you are believed, recover, or whatever. So often we hear "get over it" like it is um, a mosquito bite. Just once,but what happened wasn't.. For many women ,like me, it is not just once. Do we need a dead body to feel something bad has happened here? I hope not , but that hope is belied by experience. I shut up from myself I barely knew what happened,these violations happened. As much as I originally wanted to respond like a Buddhist nun to the actuality and aftermath of these assaults, at least those nuns got believed. I was apparently too negative when all hell broke loose in my psyche and social situation. It took time for this to happen and there was no crowd control. There was no restorative justice here. Some may go to homilies, too bad, too sad. Restrain her. Be quiet. Stop being so negative. I have, from time to time, felt surrounded by idiots who know not what they do, but I also find that position hard to accept, after so many years of facing violence by against women. So I am still troubled about how far along the road we have got, in stopping violence and supporting the recovery of victims? - ro.watson
  • linda!!!! Brilliant comment. I'm with you on this 'gender card' nonsense. Wouldn't it be great to start a new progressive political party called 'Gender Card' or maybe it would be better as a movie. Wasn't there a movie called 'Green....' 'Gender' is the issue and 'gender card' is definitely a new political party and/or a new movie just waiting to happen. - helen b
  • Bloody hell! he is the one who should be leaving! Along the lines of "Get out of the house take a deep breath, call on the love you have for your family vs your job and try to come back in the door again! I will not be abused for your job troughs! If you don't recant, we are gone!" And if not... HE should leave... - Louise
  • Yes Tracey! Yes! It doesn't matter what the situation is, the victim is a victim who needs our help, hugs and support. As you say, Not. Their. Fault! - Lisa E
  • Great article Tracey. Excellent comments Ro! I still find it hard to believe that people are still making comments, holding opinions, which put the blame on the victim. Michele S...can you hear yourself? People, particularly in democratic nations outside war zones tend to assume they are safe from rape, violence and murder...anywhere! We need to get rid of this 'risk management of uncontrollable male sexual urges' philosophy! Thanks Hoopla for getting onto this one. Just goes to show how indoctrinated we are when we hear comments like Ms Williams! Wake up everyone! This is not a rehearsal! - helen b
  • I totally agree.I grew up in New England and so envy the voters there having Tony Windsor as their representative. Unfortunately I am now in Joe Hockey's electorate and feel that my vote is wasted. It''s a pity our electorates are based on where we live - if electorates were virtual I would vote for Tony Windsor. - Gayle Davies
 
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HOOPLA HOROSCOPES. WEEK OF JULY 19

By Rob Brezny
July 19, 2012

Your weekly Hoopla Horoscopes, brought to you by prophet, astrologer and natural-born storyteller Rob Brezny.

Week beginning July 19, 2012

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Most change is slow and incremental. The shifts happen so gradually that they are barely noticeable while you’re living in the midst of them from day to day. Then there are those rare times when the way everything fits together mutates pretty quickly. Relationships that have been evolving in slow motion begin to speed up. Long-standing fixations melt away. Mystifying questions get clear answers. I think you’re at one of these junctures now, Cancerian. It’s not likely you’ll be too surprised by anything that happens, though. That’s because you’ve been tracking the energetic build-up for a while, and it will feel right and natural when the rapid ripening kicks in.

 

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lately you’ve been spending time in both the off-kilter parts of paradise and the enchanting areas of limbo. On one notable occasion, you even managed to be in both places simultaneously. How’d you do that? The results have been colorful but often paradoxical. What you don’t want and what you do want have gotten a bit mixed up. You have had to paw your way out of a dead-end confusion but have also been granted a sublime breakthrough. You explored a tunnel to nowhere but also visited a thrilling vista that provided you with some medicinal excitement. What will you do for an encore? Hopefully, nothing that complicated. I suggest you spend the next few days chilling out and taking inventory of all that’s changed.

 

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The painter Philip Guston loved to express himself creatively. He said it helped him to get rid of his certainty, to divest himself of what he knew. By washing away the backlog of old ideas and familiar perspectives, he freed himself to see the world as brand new. In light of your current astrological omens, Virgo, Guston’s approach sounds like a good strategy for you to borrow. The next couple of weeks will be an excellent time to explore the pleasures of unlearning and deprogramming. You will thrive by discarding stale preconceptions, loosening the past’s hold on you, and clearing out room in your brain for fresh imaginings.

 

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nineteenth-century author Charles Dickens wrote extensively about harsh social conditions. He specialized in depicting ugly realities about poverty, crime, and classism. Yet one critic described him as a “genial and loving humorist” who showed that “even in dealing with the darkest scenes and the most degraded characters, genius could still be clean and mirth could be innocent.” I’m thinking that Dickens might be an inspirational role model for you in the coming weeks, Libra. It will be prime time for you to expose difficult truths and agitate for justice and speak up in behalf of those less fortunate than you. You’ll get best results by maintaining your equanimity and good cheer.

 

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For many years, ambergris was used as a prime ingredient in perfumes. And where does ambergris come from? It’s basically whale vomit. Sperm whales produce it in their gastrointestinal tracts to protect them from the sharp beaks of giant squid they’ve eaten, then spew it out of their mouths. With that as your model, Scorpio, I challenge you to convert an inelegant aspect of your life into a fine asset, even a beautiful blessing. I don’t expect you to accomplish this task overnight. But I do hope you will finish by May of 2013.

 

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Interruption” will be a word of power for you in the coming days. No, really: I’m not being ironic, sarcastic, or satirical. It is possible that the interruptions will initially seem inconvenient or undesirable, but I bet you will eventually feel grateful for their intervention. They will knock you out of grooves you need to be knocked out of. They will compel you to pay attention to clues you’ve been neglecting. Don’t think of them as random acts of cosmic whimsy, but rather as divine strokes of luck that are meant to redirect your energy to where it should be.

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