Naturally some idiot judges then decided that this must mean that raped children then shouldn’t have the same amount of compensation as adult rape victims.

I believe that the outrege this ruling caused made them change the laws again so that children wouldn’t be able to be discriminated like this again.

And could somebody PLEASE make a map showing places where it’s safe to be a girl?

How does that even make any sense at all?

The Italian ruling is about like saying “He was always giving people little gifts so obviously he didn’t mind so much when I stole his car”. It’s a blatantly disfunctional and wrong view of humanity but at least there’s some kind of internal logic to it.

But how does this swedish thing even work? What’s the logic?

And yeah, Italy just dropped to roughly the level of Afghanistan or Pakistan on my list of places I want to visit.

Men and women both were kind and helpful, both my daughter and I were treated with respect every place we went (including the outdoor junk market in Rome), and we didn’t have any problems at all, except for the female gypsy pickpocket who tried to steal my purse.

Even during the transportation strike, when we walked through what looked like some unsavory neighborhoods when we were stranded, we had no problems.

Perhaps it was that we went during December, and there were few tourists, or maybe it was because we stayed in hostels. Maybe we were just lucky.

I suppose what I am saying is that I was utterly horrified by that court ruling, and by the experiences others are relating. I don’t know how to reconcile that with my experience there.