Thank you for this perspective, I am an American so my background and the resources I see are colored by that. On the liberal websites I frequent, the discussion is heavily the opposite of what you mention, if it is being mentioned at all. I don’t think either side is right, and I don’t support using this to further a…

They’re called regressive liberals. They’re amongst the worst.

Um, when was the last time 500 women (at least) were assaulted en masse in one night, in one place, by an organised group (or groups) of men? The Tahrir Squre gang rapes and assaults are the only one I can think of. The Puerto Rican Day parade attacks come to mind as well but they pale in comparison to Tahrir and…

Here, here. It is appalling. I feel completely fractured from feminists and liberals at this point. I’ve been annoyed at the hypocrisy for months and this is the tipping point for me.

and its not the right wing trying to silence women. Its the left wing, (its our own people) saying we need to shut up about the rape of almost 1000 women.

I emailed Jezebel this afternoon after seeing the BBC article, and after several days of feeling appalled that there hadn’t been a single follow up to what is a huge story for anyone following women’s issues. I’m assuming others here did as well and they finally realised that maybe having 4 articles in two days on…

And the advice to the women...to keep at arms distance, don’t talk to strangers, walk in pairs, etc. What BS. Makes me sick

There were groups of women of ten friends who had gone to watch fire works together. It didn’t save them from attack.

There has not been a mass sex attacks like this, in the West, for 70 years. Yes, I think discussion in warranted.

I mean i know we hate people saying political correctness is destroying discussions, but yeah this is the textbook example of it. when the liberals are suddenly people who don’t give a shit about rape and basically tell women to “shut up and close your legs” because they don’t want to appear racist, it sort of shows…

I feel like I’ve gone insane. When we stop reporting objectively to push/suppress an agenda, we become just as bad as the right.

Wasn’t even on CNN’s front page? They’re like the mouthpiece for the government - they don’t care about women. They care about money and power.

My response to my (all too many) “progressive” friends wringing their hands over the right-wing using this to be racist is, “Probably some people will do that, which is all the more reason for us to offer a constructive response that shows how to advocate for women.”

Germany has taken in 1.1 million people in less than a year. Not selected from camps and checked - jut opening border and welcome. About 70 to 80% of them are fit young men. They come from cultures where you can “ slut shame “ a woman for showing any part of her body. You can have thick stockings, full baggy covering…

hell yes! I mean i know we all hate people complaining about political correctness here at Jezebel. But like this whole story is the textbook example of political correctness gone mad.

So Jez finally covers this story and they leave so much out...

I’ve been steamed about this whole thing when I first started to see the stories emerge online. And the advice to the women...to keep at arms distance, don’t talk to strangers, walk in pairs, etc. What BS. Makes me sick.

So Jez finally covers this story and they leave so much out...

Found this article interesting; apparently Stockholm had some similar attacks last summer and the press stayed quiet about them too.

Religious and cultural background absolutelty matter because they are explantory factors for behavior. Period. You can isolate these things as causal factors without being a racist, Islamophobic asshole, but ignoring the fact that numerous women were sexually assaulted by a specific group of men because that fact…