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In reply to the discussion: Context and the Assange case. [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)He says it is nothing at all to do with Assange's relationship with them, and dismisses anyone who even thinks it possible that the women are telling the truth about how they feel as 'foolish'. He cannot conceive that Assange did what they said he did. Even though Assange admits to penetrating one of them while she was asleep. He's actually saying that Assange is being 'foolish', because Assange says it is about the women as well as him (he says the whole series of events mean they consented).
That's misogynistic - an automatic dismissal, without thought, of what the women say. They are then painted as tools of an intelligence agency. The OP does not just put forward a hypothesis of what might have happened; it insists that the women cannot even think they are telling the truth, and anyone who contemplates that they are saying what they think happened is 'foolish'.