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Should sex-crime accusers be named?

| Friday, 1 Jan. 2011 | 17:59 - 19:00 GMT

Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth is causing quite a stir with her latest Guardian article and she'll be with us today from New York to take your questions and comments.

Your comments

  1. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:38
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    Dear @RosAtkins @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS - please point out how rapist will re-offend if no one reports. This directly creates more rape. #mooreandme

  2. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:37
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    .@Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS Also? Naomi doesn't want us to "listen to her." We're listening. That's why she's freaking out. #MooreandMe

  3. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:46
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    @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS Naomi Wolf has yet to explain how individuals rejecting anonymity will launch a systemic change when all else has failed

  4. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:45
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    #naomiwolf's arguments on @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS don't sound like what she wrote in the guardian. also, remember this? #mooreandme

  5. Comment sent via Facebook

    • 18:46
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    David in Nairobi on FB: Unveiling their names to the public doesn't quite help them either, cases are better tackled by the designated institutions in the same way that identifiable medical data is handled. Only justice, not disclosure, pacifies the pain of victims.

  6. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:44
    • 116088614

    Is there going to be a transcript of @NaomiWolf @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS? 'Cause that'd be important and terrifying. #mooreandme

  7. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:40
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    @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS Thank you for pressing Naomi Wolf! Please keep doing do, because she didn't answer your question.

  8. Comment sent via Facebook

    • 18:43
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    Sarah on FB: I agree that there is a prevailing attitude of minimizing sexual crimes, but revealing the person who is the victim against their will is not going to help the situation. You will find less women reporting the crime if that is a law!

  9. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:42
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    yes! @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS host asks #naomiwolf why she's calling for a change in the system when support DOES NOT EXIST. #mooreandme

  10. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:41
    • 116089119

    My jaw is dropping at Naomi Wolf's victim-blaming statements on @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS. So disappointed.

  11. Comment sent via YOURSAY

    • 18:35
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    Anne via email: Wolf has correctly argued that it is only when victims have waived their anonymity that institutions will change. What she fails to see is that such waiving of anonymity must be voluntary: a personal choice made by individuals seeking to further victim civil rights.

  12. Comment sent via YOURSAY

    • 18:34
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    Question from Lynne in California via email: Why should individual women take the responsibility for changing the system and culture? Why isn't Naomi Wolf supporting changes in the culture at large, changing the shame factor on a large scale rather than on a one by one scapegoat basis?

  13. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:31
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    @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS, you should really consider stopping calling Naomi Wolf a "feminist". #mooreandme

  14. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:29
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    @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS my question to Naomi is: "Naomi, why so patronising and condescending?"

  15. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:31
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    @Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ_WHYS Here in Brazil lives of people wrongly accused of sex crimes have been destroyed. There's no compensation for such mistake.