I would almost call it a bright spot. Four members of the Utrecht Corps are being prosecuted for distributing a ‘Bangalist’, an unsubstantial meat inspection of women with names, addresses and telephone numbers. News in the same week in which lawsuits served against a man who was deadly stifled with his penis, a man who killed his girlfriend in the presence of her baby with 258 knife stabs, and a man who would have raped a woman on King’s Day in Amsterdam in the middle of the street. In a week in which a woman was shot in front of her children in Gouda by her ex, a man who previously shot an ex-partner and threatened another. I would almost call it a bright spot, but then such a flickering light bulb in a horror film.
A bright spot, because men can now also appear in a courtroom before their image of women drives them to the most serious crimes. Before they ignore permission for sex after a night of drinking, before they are the resentful ex. A bright spot, because those involved were at most suspended with earlier ‘Bangalists’ and, what happened in the first instance when the Utrecht case came out, “were not allowed to go on a ski trip“.
While the damage to such a list is also enormous. Students who read about themselves that they had to be fucked quickly quickly, were “quite stupid” or “pffff very fat.” They received hundreds of apps and bells from strangers, said the lawyer of the students against it Ad.
But the real victims, that is actually the four boys, is the impression who at one of them News hour left behind. He finds the persecution disproportionate, because “these first -year students are not responsible for the culture in which they acted.” So victims, from the culture. Ah yes, that beautiful culture of under -chopped ties and shirts so tight that they close the blood supply to the brain, the culture of Papa’s plans, of a day not almost in coma is a day pretty sad lived, the culture of the bed can no longer see the bed, you know that in a long -standing praise for women. That’s just the culture!
As if this is four willless passengers, without any responsibility. Four boys who did not know which ‘culture’ they joined, for whom group pressure was an unknown phenomenon. No, the OM should not have these guys, but the men higher in the tree at the Corps! Cultural change, not four boys stretch as an example! Of course, I would also like to drag that entire corps world to court, but trying individuals is easier in the short term than a ‘culture’. Otherwise I would have already made a report against all Dutch people who want to get croquettes at their Spanish holiday address.
And the lawyer’s client? According to him, all of them all ‘very’. “Also for the women.”
Fortunately, even for the women. That is only a culture.
Frank Huiskamp Replaces Frits Abrahams.