When another woman
Journalism: stop doing this. Don’t EVER do this. Don’t report that a woman sexually assaulted a woman when it was a man who did the assaulting.
Headline:
Lisa Jones sexually assaulted female stranger she followed in Melbourne
Subhead:
A woman has been thrown behind bars after sexually assaulting a stranger she followed down a Melbourne street before issuing a shocking demand.
First three paragraphs:
A Melbourne woman was walking home when another woman grabbed her and told her to “lie down and have sex with me” in a shocking attack.
Lisa Jones pleaded guilty to assault with intent to commit a sexual offence and sexual assault.
She was jailed for three years and three months in the County Court of Victoria on Tuesday.
Only then does the purported news outlet admit that it’s talking about a trans woman.
The “reporter” is a woman, one Caroline Schelle.
Jones, a transgender woman, spotted her victim and followed the other female down Lennox Street in Richmond in February this year.
Rubbing our noses in her stupid lie – the victim wasn’t the other female, she was the only female.
The 44-year-old grabbed her victim’s arm in a “strong grip”, forcing the woman to face her and then grabbed her jeans.
Yes the male grip generally is a “strong grip” when it comes to grabbing a woman by the arm in order to rape her.
Jones put her hands down the woman’s pants and tried to pull down her victim’s jeans but the other woman was able to fight her off as bystanders came rushing to her aid.
It’s not only a punch in the face to women, it’s also bad clumsy stupid reporting – all this “the other woman” shit when it’s not any “other woman” in the first place.
It was revealed in court Jones spent six years in a male prison in Germany for sexually abusing a six-year-old girl, before she transitioned.
Her time in the male prison was a “traumatic and harrowing” experience for Jones but did little to deter further sexual offending, Judge Tiwana said.
She was deported to Australia in 2018 and moved to the ACT, where she started hormone replacement therapy before returning to live in Melbourne.
The HRT seems to have fallen down on the job a bit.
Why do they do this? The bosses at news outlets, the editors, the reporters, whoever it is who makes this decision to pretend that it’s a woman trying to rape a woman when in fact it’s a man who claims to be trans? For all we know it’s entirely bogus and he doesn’t have any kind of gender dysphoria he just knows an opportunity when he sees one. Why do the news media report his sexual violence as being done by a woman? Without the word “trans” until a third of the way into the story?
H/t Roj Blake
To be honest, the fact that transgender is mentioned at all places this story above average. It is all too common to read a story where it is not stated anywhere – and then there is the photo.
Is it? I don’t think I’ve seen that.
https://www.cp24.com/news/woman-charged-after-allegedly-sexually-assaulting-boy-6-in-toronto-park-1.5507641
Hence the skyrocketing levels of sexual violence in women’s prisons in Canada…
Ophelia,
There was an example in my local paper a while back. I’m surprised I didn’t comment about it here. I’ll try to find it when I get time.
I recognize that photo in the Toronto story. It certainly makes the wording look…eccentric.
Aaand searching Ruby Eby turns up…“Ruby”. I blab too much to remember everything I blab.
What the article doesn’t specify is whether he’s in the men’s or the women’s prison.
Long-time lurker here, finally breaking cover. The headline and lede to this story (and many, many readers may simply stop reading at that point) play straight into literal homophobia. They evoke that old folk devil, the lesbian routinely imagined as an aggressive, possibly deranged sexual predator. For an inattentive or ill-informed reader, even the mention of Jones as a ‘transgender woman’ may not correct the picture.
Australian papers stopped using the word “transgender” after the reporting on Evie the 7/11 axe attacker. The TRAs were very upset Evie’s former name was printed and was called a transgender women throughout. Since then, the transwoman who murdered a man she met online was described as a woman, and now Lisa Jones.
Pandering to TRAs is advertising gold: you’re able to prioritise men over women but look like you are being a LGB advocate.
Evie went into a woman’s prison, so Lisa will too?
NightCrow – indeed. See Dennis Kavanagh’s stellar rant on that theme.
It is good to see that the Australian website is being fiercely challenged on Twitter, where they have flagged up the story as ‘Female sex attacker’s horror demand’: https://twitter.com/newscomauHQ/status/1468123108972408832