Should self defence classes be sold with every miniskirt?

Et si des cours d'auto-défense étaient vendus avec les mini-jupes?

Delhi - Police blame victims

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/the-9-oclock-news/cops-blame-rapes-on-victims-in-delhi-shows-investigation/228580

Rape is a brutal crime against women that victims live with for the rest of their lives. But here in India, in the National Capital no less, a crude, insensitive and downright misogynistic police force has ensured that the trauma is only magnified.

Frank Zappa

Sometimes we need something a little lighter...

If Life Is Like A Book

Banksy is a genius in my eyes!!!

Without Words

...theatre is the only place in the world...

Le théatre est le seul endroit au monde et le dernier moyen d'ensemble qui nous reste d'atteindre directement l'organisme, et, dans les périodes de névroses et de sensualité basse comme celle ou nous plongéons, d'attaquer cette sensualité basse par des moyens physiques auxquels elle ne résistera pas.

The theatre is the only place in the world, the last general means we still possess of directly affecting the anatomy, and in neurotic, basely sensual periods like the one in which we are immersed, of attacking that base sensuality through physical means it cannot withstand. (p161)

The Theatre and Its Double

The otherside of the teabag label says - 'A peaceful mind is a creative mind' but I put it on the scanner  upside down - doh!

 These are quotes from Antonin
Artaud's The Theatre and Its Double

A theatre where violent physical 

images pulverise, mesmerise...

En France

Obviously this is a problem mondial! It is much much worse elsewhere but we, apparently, live in 'developed' countries so why the f*ck are the numbers still so high. We can read and write - no means no...no?

Costume

 How to make an outfit yet more shocking than we see everyday on the streets of UK cities...I certainly haven't seen many women who go this far on a night out - 'add imagined horrors to existing ones' the skirt is in order to represent the fact that women have dressed to look beautiful for decades - this is nothing new.

Roxanne is a genius, she has drawn exactly what I saw in my mind and added more class!

The beginning...

This is why I'm telling my story - or a part of it!

Indonesia Anti-Rape Protests

This says it all - don't tell us how to dress - tell them not to rape - exfeckingsactly!

Let's hope this shows more women are coming forward NOT that there are yet more rapes...

Edinburgh crime figures: The scenes of the crimes

By ALAN MCEWEN
Published on Saturday 21 April 2012 12:15

Figures from the latest Capital police map reveal a shocking rise in rapes despite overall offences falling and clear-up rates remaining unchanged

THE number of rapes reported in Edinburgh has soared by more than 40 per cent in the last year despite police chiefs revealing an overall drop in crime in their annual report.

A total of 130 rapes were reported to police between April last year and March, compared with 92 for the previous year, new figures have revealed.