'Last week shows everyone needs to wake up to everyday hell of being a woman'
IF you get time, Google the name Asel Nogoibaeva.
Actually, don’t. The details, revealed last week, are far too distressing.
To sum up just what women and girls are facing in our day and age, however, it is sadly necessary to reflect on her case.
The 36-year-old mum of two had her nose and ears cut off in a horrific domestic abuse attack lasting hours at their home in Kyrgyzstan. Her terrified 10-year-old son had been made to watch.
Asel had gone to police previously to report her allegedly abusive husband, only for him to be released after being taken in for questioning.
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As we know all too well, the dangers women and girls face tend not to be fully appreciated until it is too late. This past week alone is a bleak reminder.
As legal proceedings are active in the heartbreaking case of 15-year-old Elianne Andam, stabbed in South London last week on the way to school, we cannot make any comment.
We can only, for now, mourn the passing of yet another young girl with so much to live for and pray for yet another family ripped apart.
As fathers and families we can only work as hard as we can to prepare our daughters for what they are walking into.
Disbelief and disgust were off the scale last week over the discourse, dripping in misogyny, within which two male GB News broadcasters laughed as one asked what “self-respecting man” would have sex with a female journalist whose views differed from theirs.
Both men were suspended. If only such swift action was taken in relation to their appalling, insulting perspectives on Meghan Markle.
Nor were they alone.
In sport, the Football Association revealed last Monday that it is investigating allegations that former AFC Wimbledon managing director Danny Macklin made abusive and sexist comments about a female colleague. It follows the emergence of a piece of distressing audio posted to social media.
In January, Macklin appealed to supporters not to sing sexist songs. In June he and the colleague publicly committed to tackling sexism as part of the Her Game Too campaign.
In the audio a man is heard, allegedly saying: “I f***ing want to put her through a f****** window... I’ve never wanted to kill someone, but I’d like to kill her. F***ing s**t.”
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Macklin left his role at League Two AFC Wimbledon on September 8.
The club said: “Behaviour such as that being alleged was and is not tolerated, nor is it representative of the culture at AFC Wimbledon. Once we became aware of the matter we acted appropriately in accordance with our responsibilities and values to promptly resolve it.”
We’d started last week, remember, with Gymnastics Ireland issuing that forced apology for the appalling treatment of a Black teenage female gymnast, ignored by an official handing out medals at an event in Dublin last year.
We start a new week with the UN reporting widespread sexual assaults in Sudan.
For millions across the country – and around the world – it never ends.
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