velma

@ velma @sh.itjust.works

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13m ago

The disturbing rise of ‘gooner’ assaults at Dollar Tree stores: ‘They find it funny to degrade women’
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velma @sh.itjust.works 13m ago

These commenters have a pattern of misogynistic comments. Lemmy is not very big and I've had multiple run ins with them. They actively choose to remain ignorant about the sexism issues that women still face to this day.
Trying to downplay these crimes and waiving away these victim's testimonies and calls for justice is just another way they use to discredit women.

24m ago

The Sword of Birth Control

It's more likely that the birth control failed is the only point that was being made.

Greenberg and Blizzard believe the Dollar Tree gooner phenomenon can shed further light on these issues and offer an opportunity to address some of them. In MR’s lawsuit and a similar case in San Diego, their legal filings argue that Dollar Tree should have had more staff and security, should have alerted the police to the sharking episodes on its premises and should have issued a warning to shoppers.
In the San Diego case, Greenberg and Blizzard found eyewitness and photographic evidence that the same perpetrator had masturbated and ejaculated on another woman in the same store one day before – and returned six days later to assault a third victim. “Dollar Tree did nothing,” they and a team of California lawyers allege in court papers. Dollar Tree did not respond to questions about this accusation.
The lawyers saw what they allege to be a similar corporate disregard for shopper safety in a case they read about in Knoxville, Tennessee, where a Dollar Tree employee named Collin Miller was caught on camera as he masturbated in front of customers in November 2024. “The [security] video shows the defendant with his penis exposed as he walks past the register where the victim is checking out,” a police report quoted by a local TV station said. “The video also later shows the defendant rubbing his groin area for several minutes at the register while customers are present in the store.”
Although Miller pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure, he was not fired. And then, eight months later, he was accused of following a family around the store with a camera and taking surreptitious photographs up the 16-year-old daughter’s skirt. Once again, the police investigated and, according to media reports, found 25,000 compromising images of women on his phone. He subsequently pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful photographing in violation of privacy. Dollar Tree did not respond to questions about the case and Miller’s employment status.

I expect them to at least fire employees when they masturbate in front of customers and have tens of thousands of photographs of children's upskirts.