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Social Media Element: Political Cartoon, Tweet.

Where Its From: Found on Niall O'Loughin's @Nialloloughin on Twitter. https://twitter.com/nialloloughlin/status/1062322051879448577

What or Who is Involved: Niall O'Loughlin, Ciara Kelly (who the image is of, who is a reporter from NewstalkFM) and several pares of underwear.

Insight and Ideas: shows a picture of Ciara Kelly, one of the reporters who covered the story, holding up two sets of underwear, one is a lacy thong that says 'your fault', while the other is a fairly conservative pair of underwear that says 'his fault'. In the image Ciara is trying to decided which to choose because of comments that the teenager couldn't have been raped because she was wearing a lacy thong and was clearly looking for sex.

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Social Media Element: Video of News Report and article.

Where Its From: From the CNN website, posted on November 15, 2018 and linked below.

What or Who is Involved: The trial is involved along with CNN reporter Andrew Stevens @AndrewCNN, several twitters, Ruth Coppinger, Susan Dillon (who created the #thisisnotconsent tag.

Insight and Ideas: The video talks about how women are posting tweets of their underwear and using the #thisisnotconsent. It covers the protest that come from the outraged public. It also shows a Skype interview between Andrew Stevens and Susan Dillon who talks about how she will not stand for it and shes glade she's bringing awareness to the topic and the response to the hashtag is more then she imagined.

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this is not consent: use of underwear in irish rape trial sparks outrage - cnn

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Use of underwear in Irish rape trial sparks outrage

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Women around the world are posting pictures of their underwear on Twitter after a 27-year-old man was acquitted in a rape trial in Ireland during which a teenager's thong was used as evidence.

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Irish Court Uses Rape Victim's Underwear as Evidence in Trial 

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Irish Court Uses Rape Victim's Underwear as Evidence in Trial 

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On November 6th, in Cork Ireland the courts rules in favor of the 27 year old male defendant in a rape trial between him and his victim a 17 year old girl. The real scandal comes from when defendants lawyer used the victims underwear as 'evidence', showing it to the court and being quoited saying about the victim that "Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone? You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front.”(Irish Examiner, 2018). This victim blaming has people up in arms about the ruling, and are using the hashtag #ThisIsNotConsent and posting pictures of their underwear to show support to the victim and bring awareness to this toxic victim blaming.

Irish Examiner. (2018, November 06). Counsel for man acquitted of rape suggested jurors should reflect on underwear worn by teen complainant. Retrieved November 18, 2018, from https://amp.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/counsel-for-man-acquitted-of-rape-suggested-jurors-should-reflect-on-underwear-worn-by-teen-complainant-883613.html

Said by Ms Elizabeth O’Connell SC.

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Readers Comments about Article covering the outrage about the used of Underwear in Trial. 

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Readers Comments about Article covering the outrage about the used of Underwear in Trial. 

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Social Media Element: Comment on opinion piece / online article.

Where Its From: The original article refranced is the link below https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/opinion-displaying-the-victims-underwear-in-court-is-evidence-alright-of-rape-culture-4338899-Nov2018/.

What or Who is Involved: The author of the blog Jamie Gray, and users: Ruaridgeback, Greg_Blake and Earth_Traveler on the https://jamiegraymusic.com/wordpress/2018/11/what-sort-of-underwear-exactly-should-women-be-wearing-to-be-taken-seriously-in-court/website.

Insight and Ideas: The User Greg Blake seems to think that people shouldn't be blaming the 'innocent man' because the judge let the underwear be used as evidence. He is clearly missing the point that while the underwear was not appropriate to be used as evidence, it was the fact that the defense attorney claimed that the style of the underwear meant that the 'innocent man' was absolved of his guilt because the 17 year old girl was clearly looking for sex. The man missed the point because no clothing should excuse the actions of someone.

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Social Media Element: Online News Report. Option piece.

Where Its From: TheJournal.ie, posted on November 14th, available in the link below.

What or Who is Involved: The article was published on TheJournal.ie and written by Activist Morgan Barbour.

Insight and Ideas: The article talks about how when Morgan was 14 she bought her first thong and that did not mean she was looking for sex. She talked about how she herself was a victim of sexual assault and that she was wearing her work uniform, which was a barmaid uniform, and its what delayed her from reporting it because she knew the police would ask. She goes on to talk about how clothing doesn't mean consent and that we have to be aware of the rape culture we are promoting by allowing people to think that because of what someone is wearing, its OK to have sex with them.

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'Displaying the victims underwear in court is evidence alright - of rape culture'

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What I was wearing the night I was brutally raped does not justify the attack - but I knew some people would say that it did, writes Morgan Barbour.

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CHANT: CLOTHES ARE NOT CONSENT! YES MEANS YES, AND NO MEANS NO!

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CHANT: CLOTHES ARE NOT CONSENT! YES MEANS YES, AND NO MEANS NO!

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Social Media Element: Video of News Report from Newstalk.

Where Its From: Newstalk on twitter, @NewstalkFM.

What or Who is Involved: Ciara Kelly (Reporter) @ciarakellydoc, Ruth Coppinger (Solidarity TD) @RuthCoppingerTD, Linda Hayden (AASV Ireland) @LindaOkaythen, Susan Dilion (Atavist) @DollyDottySusan.

Insight and Ideas: A news report following the 'This is Not Consent' rally in Ireland. It talks about victim blaming and how what people wear does not mean consent. Ruth talks how they need to think about the Sex Ed Bill that hasn't gone though, and that consent is a large focus of. They talk about how victims need to be encourage to come in a report, because Ireland has one of the lowers reporting rates at 10% of victims reporting their assault and results like this trial are very damaging.

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My Dog Understands NO, Why Can't You? - Photo/Tweet

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My Dog Understands NO, Why Can't You? - Photo/Tweet

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Social Media Element: A Tweet with the below photo that someone took and then added the caption to.

Where Its From: Mifs @maddison_miffy on twitter. She found the image on and undisclosed site and tweeted it with the #ThisIsNotConsent, which is associated with the trial.  https://twitter.com/maddison_miffy/status/1063386287720275968

What or Who is Involved: The Dog, the photographer who created the original image and Mifs.

Insight and Ideas: The photo was meant to illustrate that a dog can be trained to not just take the food off her plate because his owner said no, but that people are making excesses that because of how someone was dressed, or how attractive they are they cannot resist the urge to have sex on them. They is no excuses that can be used to defending the act of raping someone and people needed to learn that No means NO.

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Jamie Gray Speak About No One is Asking to be Raped

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Jamie Gray Speak About No One is Asking to be Raped

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Social Media Element: Blog Post

Where Its From: Jamie Gray's blog that was posted on November 17th and created with WordPress.

What or Who is Involved: Jamie Gray, and the trial information and a link to the original article Jamie is commenting on. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ireland-rape-trial-thisisnotconsent-lace-thong-underwear-evidence-barrister-protest-a8638686.html

Insight and Ideas: Jamie talks about how we need to stop victim blaming and that while change is slow we need to take steps to remove this stigma and sexism from rape culture. He used the example that someone who is rich isn't to blame for having money that they doing want to give away or be stolen, so why are people blamed for having an attractive body that they do not want to let someone have sex with?

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I honestly don't understand how we as a society continue to allow this kind of sexist victim blaming and shaming to exist. Do we blame the guy who flashed around a wad of $100 bills for being robbed? OK...It may not be the smartest thing to do, but it still doesn't make it his fault when some mugger decides to rob his stupid ass.
How she dresses doesn't make it OK to assault her. It doesn't mean "she asked for it". It just means that some shithead saw something that didn't belong to him and tried to take it...because he thought he could get away with it.
That's on us all. By our tacit consent, we're all to blame. Change is hard, but necessary.

The Article "What sort of underwear, exactly, should women be wearing to be taken seriously in court?" originally appeared on http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ireland-rape-trial-thisisnotconsent-lace-thong-underwear-evidence-barrister-protest-a8638686.html
Jamie's comments are his own.

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'What sort of underwear, exactly, should women be wearing to be taken seriously in court?'

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I honestly don't understand how we as a society continue to allow this kind of sexist victim blaming and shaming to exist. Do we blame the guy who flashed around a wad of $100 bills for being robbed?

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[NOT ASKING FOR IT] Art done by Emma Blake

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[NOT ASKING FOR IT] Art done by Emma Blake

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Social Media Element: Photo from a Twitter post. Of Billboard / Posters.

Where Its From: The art was created by Emma Blake of Dublin Ireland, who tweeted the below image of her posters on her Twitter account.

What or Who is Involved: The image shows several different kinds of female underwear, like Bikinis, thong, and boy-shorts, with the words [NOT ASKING FOR IT] in all caps, bracketing the images of the underwear.

Insight and Ideas: This art was done to bring awareness to people, particularly in Blake's outrage with the court ruling, showing that regardless of what someone is wearing, their underwear does no mean they consent to having sex.

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Using what underwear someone is wearing as evidence that they consented to sex is THE most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard. A woman's underwear should never be allowed to be used as "evidence", because it is evidence of nothing. #notaskingforit #ThisIsNotConsent

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Using what underwear someone is wearing as evidence that they consented to sex is THE most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard. A woman's underwear should never be allowed to be used as "evidence", because it is evidence of nothing. #notaskingforit #ThisIsNotConsent https://t.co/CuaJds6VAZ

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Using what underwear someone is wearing as evidence that they consented to sex is THE most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard. A woman's underwear should never be allowed to be used as "evidence", because it is evidence of nothing. #notaskingforit #ThisIsNotConsent pic.twitter.com/CuaJds6VAZ
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Using what underwear someone is wearing as evidence that they consented to sex is THE most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard. A woman's underwear should never be allowed to be used as "evidence", because it is evidence of nothing. #notaskingforit #ThisIsNotConsent https://t.co/CuaJds6VAZ

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Using what underwear someone is wearing as evidence that they consented to sex is THE most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard. A woman's underwear should never be allowed to be used as "evidence", because it is evidence of nothing. #notaskingforit #ThisIsNotConsent https://t.co/CuaJds6VAZ

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Using what underwear someone is wearing as evidence that they consented to sex is THE most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard. A woman's underwear should never be allowed to be used as "evidence", because it is evidence of nothing. #notaskingforit #ThisIsNotConsent

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Social Media Element: News Report (video) and Supporting article.

Where its From: From the BBC News,n website, posted on November 14th.

What or Who is involved: BBC News, The Dáil, which is Irish parliament, Ruth Coppinger.

Insight and Ideas: Shows a clip of how Ruth Coppinger pulled out a thong in the Irish Dáil and asked the parliament if it should be appropriate to show someones, especially a victim of rapes, underwear like they did as evidence.

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Irish outcry over teenager's underwear used in rape trial

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An Irish MP displays a thong in parliament after a defence lawyer criticises a teenager's underwear.

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Underwear Makes Teen Complainant in Their own Rape - Irish Examiner

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Underwear Makes Teen Complainant in Their own Rape - Irish Examiner

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Social Media Element: Online News Article.

Where Its From: From the Irish Examiner website and was posted on the 6th of November. (This is created as one of the first reports about the situation)

What or Who is Involved: The article talks about the trial and those involved, and was written by Liam Heylin.

Insight and Ideas: This article was one of the first published about the court case and ruling, and it seems like before the explosion of rage from women about the victim blaming, that the Irish Examiner seemed to agree with the ruling. While they tried to show both sides of the court defense it looks like the Irish Examiner stands behind the idea that clothing can equal consent to sexual acts.

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Counsel for man acquitted of rape suggested jurors should reflect on underwear worn by teen complainant

By Liam Heylin

A 27-year-old man who denied raping a 17-year-old in county Cork wept loudly as he was found not guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Cork.

The jury of eight men and four women took one and a half hours of deliberation to reach their unanimous verdict yesterday.

Ms Justice Carmel Stewart thanked the jury in a case dominated by the issue of consent.

The jury heard evidence that in the immediate aftermath of the disputed sexual incident at the centre of the case the complainant said to the accused: "You just raped me" and the defendant said, "No, we just had sex."

After the accused man told his senior counsel Ms Elizabeth O'Connell that what happened was consensual, he was cross-examined by Tom Creed SC for the prosecution.

Commenting on the night in question, the defendant said they were kissing and he said they "felt attracted to one another on the night."

Mr Creed said: "There is not one person who saw you kissing." The defendant named one man who allegedly did see them kissing but this person did not give evidence in the trial.

Mr Creed asked him to describe the sexual contact.

The defendant said they had gone up a lane and were lying down in a muddy area. He said that he could not get fully erect and did not think his penis went into her vagina. He said it was possible that it did but he did not think so.

Mr Creed said: "A witness saw you with your hand to her throat." The defendant said that was not correct. He said the witness misread the situation.

The defendant denied that and said "she was not crying at any stage."

When the complainant's evidence that he dragged her over 30 metres to the spot where the alleged rape occurred, was put to him he said he "didn't drag anyone anywhere."

He said she was kind of worried about her dress getting dirty in what he described as "the moist mud".

He said that after (a witness at the scene) asked was everything alright in a sarcastic manner he replied: "What the fuck does it look like. Mind your own business."

"Then she (the complainant) was getting funny, it was like she snapped out of a buzz. She said stop and I stopped. We were going to have sex, she said stop and I stopped," he testified.

In her closing address to the jury, Ms Elizabeth O'Connell SC told jurors they should have regard for the underwear the complainant wore on the night.

"Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone? You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front."

Ms O'Connell suggested the complainant was, on the night, open to the possibility of being with someone and that the person she became attracted to ended up being the defendant.

Mr Creed SC for the prosecution said to the jury: "You decide if there was sexual intercourse between them. You decide if there was consent.

"You have heard her say she did not consent. You have heard him say she did consent. The major issue you have to deal with is whether she consented to sexual intercourse. It is one way or the other. Either she did or did not. If you are satisfied she did not consent and that he knew she did not consent then you convict.

"She is quite clear she did not consent She said she never had sexual intercourse before.

"It has been alleged by the defendant there was lots of kissing going on. In terms of kissing there is not one witness in this case who can say they were kissing."

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Counsel for man acquitted of rape suggested jurors should reflect on underwear worn by teen complainant

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Counsel for man acquitted of rape suggested jurors should reflect on underwear worn by teen complainant By Liam Heylin A 27-year-old man who denied raping a 17-year-old in county Cork wept loudly as he was found not guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Cork.