“I want to set an ambitious course for this country,” said Tony Blair in 1997, “To be nothing less than the model 21st century nation, a beacon to the world.”
How has "grooming gangs" become so entrenched as the quasi-official term? Shouldn't they just be called rape gangs? It seems strange to see the right using a term popularized by Tumblr. If this had actually been uncovered in 1997, no one would have used the term.
This might be an unpopular opinion but I think it's a fairly appropriate term for how the rapists would lure vulnerable girls into a cycle of abuse (rather - in *general* - than just snatching them off the streets, which "rape gang" might have implied).
How has "grooming gangs" become so entrenched as the quasi-official term? Shouldn't they just be called rape gangs? It seems strange to see the right using a term popularized by Tumblr. If this had actually been uncovered in 1997, no one would have used the term.
This might be an unpopular opinion but I think it's a fairly appropriate term for how the rapists would lure vulnerable girls into a cycle of abuse (rather - in *general* - than just snatching them off the streets, which "rape gang" might have implied).
Thanks! Interesting piece