Helen Mirren makes it really difficult to like her or want to go see her films when every time she opens up her mouth about rape, she says something completely and utterly offensive.
Earlier this year the 60-whatever-year-old pissed a lot of people off by saying that rape "isn't always criminal" and that, for example, under those "non-violent circumstances" people like Mike Tyson should be considered rapists.
Now Mirren is saying that women shouldn't be allowed on the jury panel of a rape case as female jealousy will prevent them from fairly evaluating the case. Oh yes. She went there.
In a rape case the courts - in defence of a man - would select as
many women as they could for the jury, because women go against women.
Whether in a deep-seated animalistic way, going back billions of
years, or from a sense of tribal jealousy or just antagonism, I don't
know.
But other women on a rape case would say she was asking for it. The
only reason I can think of is that they're sexually jealous.
Yeah, I don't know about you, but when I find out someone has been raped, I get this uncontrollable sense of JEALOUSY. And then I mutter something about how they "must have been asking for it".
I think you'll all join me in joyously raising my middle finger at the *lovely* Dame Helen Mirren and shouting a hearty FUCK YOU.
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