That’s an amazing hashtag. Perfect description.
I just need to say something about this and then I'll come back to Ole Pukka, promise.
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You might have seen in the news this week that a man called Sam Pybus was sentenced to just four and a half years in prison for strangling his girlfriend, Sophie Moss, to death. His defence was that it was part of a rough sex game gone wrong and that she consented. Just like John Broadhurst claimed when he was sentenced to two years for beating and raping Natalie Connolly to death with a spray bleach bottle.
Both men were able to get away with shockingly lenient sentences for murdering these women because they were able to convince a jury of ordinary men and women, like all of us on these boards, that their victims consented to being beaten and strangled.
Why did the juries believe that was a plausible defence? Probably because of mainstream stuff like 50 Shades. And because of 'vanilla shaming'. Nowadays if you don't say you like getting choked, you're ridiculed for being boring. Cardi B even wrote a number one single about loving being made to gag and choke by her partner. Then it gets normalised and then men like Pybus and Broadhurst are able to convince juries that their victims were into it.
Fair play to ya if getting strangled during sex really is your thing (I don't need to hear about it though). But don't be afraid to say if it's not, for fear you get called 'vanilla'. I think we should normalise being vanilla. It is really okay to say you prefer not to be hurt during sex.
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Back to the Pukkster. I don't think she gives a
tit about showing her hypocrisy now. The vulnerable insta-sheep aren't paying her wages any more, she's on Heart and Channel 4 money and she doesn't GAF.
She was actually the most disingenuous of them all in the long run. At least Clemmie was always her authentic awful self.