was on a rural farm that week, missed it

according to the one thing i saw she posted about a sexual assault from a high ranking party official so other women would feel like its okay to come forward since she could. 30 minutes later the tweet and her account is taken down and she disappears, then a few days later she gives what appears to be a scripted apology saying she made it up.

that could be totally wrong/inaccurate i got no clue, so whats up?

  • Civility [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Calling it an affair is 😬

    A much older senior party official abused his position to pressure her into a sexual relationship.

    It might not legally qualify as a sex crime, but it's abusive and predatory behavior which shouldn't be tolerated.

    Like, this shit

    About three years ago, Zhang Gaoli vice president, you retired. You asked Dr. Liu at the Tianjin Tennis Centre to contact me, and asked me with play tennis with you at Kang Ming Hotel in Beijing. After we finished playing tennis, you and your wife Kang Jie brought me to your home. Then you took me into your room. Like what happened ten years ago in Tianjin, you wanted to have sex with me. That afternoon I didn't agree, and I kept crying. I had dinner with you and auntie Kang Jie together. You said the universe is very very big. The earth is merely a speck of sand in the universe, and us human beings are smaller than even a speck of sand. You said a lot more than that, and the purpose was basically to persuade me to drop my guard. After dinner, I was still not willing to have sex. You said you hated me. You said in those seven years, you never forgot about me, and you will treat me well etc... I was terrified and anxious. Taking into consideration the affection I had for you seven years ago, I agreed... yes, we had sex.

    Is predatory behaviour and just because the NYT is being an imperialist bumrag about it doesn't make doing apologetics for a sexual predator less harmful.

    • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      To whom was harm done by grandparent by calling it an affair? Peng Shui clearly describes an affair in her account - I recommend reading all of it - even though we can validly bring up power imbalances and pressuring (she also explicitly states it has nothing to do with power).

      You will see, in the rest of this thread, a conspicuous absence of describing the concerted Western media campaigns as lies, which they are. Exaggerations and inventions, creating their own stories about Peng Shui "disappearing" or claiming to have been assaulted, stories that have legs not because anyone is trying to have a hard discussion about power dynamics or sexual pressuring / consent in sports, but to blast "China bad" in yet another round of breathless "journalism".

      Hexbears are not, overall, great on China. There's a decent contingent that is, but few are free of liberal brainworms about it. A fairly well-upbeared comment is even speculating about seeing China cover up rape. As always, propaganda is about emphasis and what we end up talking about, how we frame discussions and (usually fail) to acknowledge uncertainty and important questions like, "who is saying this, why are they saying it, and how do they know it?"