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Daily Archives: November 30, 2002

Judge Rules Rape of Aboriginal Girl ‘Traditional’

An Australian judge ruled that a 50-year-old Aboriginal man’s statutory rape of a 15-year-old girl is not a serious crime, but traditional culture. But feminists say violence against women is a result of relatively recent history.

This entry was posted in gender & sexuality on November 30, 2002 by zephoria.

My name is danah boyd and I'm a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and the founder/president of Data & Society. Buzzwords in my world include: privacy, census, context, algorithms, equity, justice. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.

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