Saturday, 14 May 2022
Two words we could use more often
Vicki Bevan: Woman paedophile jailed for life for 'shockingly depraved' sexual abuse including rape of girl
Vicki Bevan, from St Helens, "instigated and organised" the rape and sexual abuse of the victim - aged under 10 - with Paul Rafferty and Tony Hutton, prosecutors said.
Delivering his sentences, Judge Andrew Menary QC said the scale of depravity in the case "beggars belief" and it was likely the victim would suffer "severe psychological harm".
Two words we could use more often - depraved and depravity. And in a wider context.
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"Depraved" Is that what 'non-binary' means? Or does 'non-binary' mean bisexual?
Or is there some other euphemism for depraved?
I find it as hard to keep up with all this gender crap as it was to keep up with all the changing Covid regulations/guidelines/advice.
They are terms that only judges are allowed to use these days. Interesting, that. Everybody else has to pretend that other people are simply "different", and we mustn't judge them. And if they actually do harm to others, then we have to use medical terms or (following the lead of the Guardian) talk in terms of social deprivation. They didn't get enough money, education, maternal love, respect, etc.
So it's deprived rather than depraved unless we are actually wearing an 18th century wig and jailing someone. For the time being, that is. There are plenty of woke judges around, so the word will probably become completely extinct.
How about 'perversion' or 'deviancy'?
dearieme - I don't know what 'non-binary', having avoided looking it up in case it changes tomorrow. Much of the gender crap does seem to be a collection of euphemisms for depraved though.
Sam - yet as has been observed elsewhere, unless we use such words as 'depraved' we put children at risk from people who are certainly depraved but we are too cowardly to say so.
Bill - yes, we should use both words more often and as they used to be used.
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