Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner for excessive sexual behavior, finds Johan Derksen’s confession “disappointing” on Tuesday evening. Derksen said on the program: in today that in his youth he penetrated a drunk and unconscious woman with wax.
Hamer finds this “humiliating and hurtful” for people who have already experienced sexual violence. “In the 1960s and 1970s, this behavior was not normal,” he says.
Hamer took office in April. “With the new government commissioner, the cabinet wants to create awareness and culture change because bullying and intimidation are unacceptable,” the cabinet said about his appointment.
Lawyer Richard Korver was also shocked by Derksen’s confession in Tuesday evening’s SBS program. “What Derksen does is very painful, but what the environment does is perhaps even more painful: laugh with us,” says Korver. “You can even see the women in the audience smiling a little shyly. You create atmosphere: we have to tolerate that. If that’s the atmosphere in the country, then that’s frankness. Sound was born and immediately disappeared.”
The lawyer, who regularly assists victims of sexual violence, talks about ‘normalizing and mocking sex with a powerless person’. “I’m talking to these victims. “Mr. Korver, don’t you think I won’t charge you again? You should see how people talk about it!’
Korver suspects that Derksen did not rape
Based on Derksen’s confession on Tuesday evening, Korver points out that there would be no rape in this case, even though the analyst himself thought so. According to Korver, it involved “association with an impotent or unconscious person,” a crime punishable by eight years in prison. However, he suspects that this problem arose about fifty years ago, which means that it is already banned.
Sex with a powerless person can be prescribed, including rape since 2013. “However, this restriction has not been applied retroactively,” Korver says.
“Derksen’s smile lingered for a long time”
Some politicians are also angry at Derksen’s statements. “I had to laugh at Derksen,” ChristenUnie leader Gert-Jan Segers said on Twitter earlier Wednesday. He describes the comments as “weird”.
VVD MP Ingrid Michon finds the statement “unbelievable and shameless”. Suzanne Kröger, Member of Parliament GroenLinks writes: “As long as people continue to laugh at sexual violence, we still have a very, very long way to go.”
Wednesday night show was ‘once again about men, not about victims’
in a new issue in today Derksen described the statements he had made on Wednesday evening the day before. He said it wasn’t rape, as he said Tuesday, but put a candlestick between the woman’s legs.
His colleague analyst René van der Gijp suggested pre-recording the talk show in the future, so that the “noisy bad jokes” can be eliminated. Derksen said he feared that this would “take away the spontaneity of the program”. In addition, Derksen attacked the ‘awakened cancellation culture’ that would always fall on him and his statements.
Derksen, Van der Gijp and presenter Wilfred Genee did not show in any way how hurtful their talk about sexual violence in the show was for the victims, Hamer said later in the evening in the radio program. to judge tomorrowI
“In all of the men’s conversations, it didn’t seem like how hurtful everything they said today and yesterday was,” Hamer said. “Again it was all about how hard it was for them and that they weren’t allowed to make bad jokes anymore. The very big issue behind their statement was not discussed. I found that very disappointing.”
Source: NU
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