In 2020.ĭame Baird is part of a review set up by the government to find out why there has been such a huge fall in prosecutions. There are people walking around, knowing that they can get away with raping. Not only are rape victims getting no ‘justice’ (in court), but more people are becoming rape victims unnecessarily because of those failings. This is likely to mean we are creating more victims as a result of our failure to act.’ ![]() ‘In some cases, we are enabling persistent predatory sex offenders to go on to reoffend in the knowledge that they are highly unlikely to be held to account. In doing so, we are failing to give justice to thousands of complainants.’ Thousands. In her first annual report, Dame Vera Baird QC said: ‘In effect, what we are witnessing is the decriminalisation of rape. I know lots of people have talked about the way in which IMDY has sucker punched them, but reading that makes me feel physically sick. Arabella perhaps found comfort and order (not resolution) in writing? As Michaela has openly spoken about the fact that she was led to explore different aspects of consent and write I May Destroy You because of her own experience of being spiked and raped, there’s another layer to that.īut this all felt more stark in a month where the Victim’s Commissioner Vera Baird said rape in this country has effectively become decriminalised and it was announced convictions have fallen to a record low. Didn’t it? There were also ‘endings’ for other characters’ stories. Yes, you could say, she completed the book, which was also, maybe, the show (wasn’t it?) and so maybe as a series there was an ending? Even though it took us back to the start. Because how could there be? Is that something you think is or should be possible? I watched the end of I May Destroy You feeling that that the three imagined (were they all imagined?) scenarios in the bar showed (and there was a LOT to unpick within them beyond this) there was no neat finale to the ‘story of’ Arabella’s rape. If you were left wondering if there was meaning, something you’d missed or an explanation that ties up the series at the end of I May Destroy You, then, I think, that’s probably yet another plaudit to add to the list of how well Michaela Coel’s drama deals with sexual assault. CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING OF I MAY DESTROY YOU
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