Protests have flared across Ireland after a defense lawyer showed a 17-year-old girl's thong or G-string in court as alleged proof of her consent in a rape case.
The outrage has included a female lawmaker brandishing underwear in parliament and women posting pictures of their thongs online with the hashtag #ThisIsNotConsent.
A barrister actually told a jury to 'look at the way she was dressed', that she was 'open to meeting someone' because she was 'wearing a thong with a laced front'", Coppinger added.
Protests in the cities of Dublin and Cork as no- with women appearing brandishing pairs of underwear and placards emblazoned with the phrase "This is not consent."
Culture places "enormous pressure" on women and girls "to be sexualized and to present sexually" but that rape trials then often punish that same behaviour with the use of such "evidence."
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