Marius Borg Høiby charged with 32 offences and could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty
  • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    130·
    27 days ago

    As a Norwegian of some age, this entire case was one of the most jarring news stories I’ve encountered.

    Imagine following the news in the early 2000s. Our crown prince found love among the (extremely) common people, and got married to a woman who had a small child. Royalist tightbutts are pissing themselves at the breach of tradition but the rest of the country is charmed by the heartwarming love affair.

    News plastered for months and months of of a couple in love, and Marius the cuutest tiny blonde litte boy barely out of diapers and being adorable everywhere. And it fades out.

    20-something years pass, and news are going on about something “Marius Høiby…”

    Omg! I remember him! He was the cutes- WHAT THE FUCK

    • virku@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      27 days ago

      I hate that our media has started dishing out any and all details including heresay for months when some court case or investigation of notoriety is going on. If it is a missing billionaires wife, a raping gynocologist, resurfacing of the same 30 year old murdered kids every 3 years or whatnot it is at the top of the newspapers for months. I don’t want to read about that shit.

      I don’t want assholes to get famous after doing illegal shenanigans. I would much rather read news about a farmer saving his horse. Or even shaving his horse which auto correct wanted me to type for that matter.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
      110·
      25 days ago

      Imagine not being able to blame Russia this time? FUCK indeed.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    322·
    27 days ago

    I hear America’s rape-friendly “aristocracy” is looking for more recruits

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      27 days ago

      I was thinking he looks almost too much like what some bad movie would cast as a eurotrash douche villain.

      • Underfreyja@lemmy.caEnglish
        71·
        27 days ago

        I mean… He do be a real life euro trash douche villain. Maybe he looked at those characters and was like: You know what? I like this style.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    26 days ago

    Høiby’s status as part of the royal family, he added, would “not mean that he is treated more leniently or strictly than if similar acts were committed by others”.

    We’ll see about that.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      25 days ago

      Watch him discover a Jewish grandmother and invoke the right to return, and poof safe!

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    25 days ago

    At least in Norway they treat him like anyone else. Time for the US and UK to do the same. Money, fame and titles shouldn’t be a get-out-of-jail (or any consequences) free card.

    Prince Andrew has been stripped of his titles, been banished from the royal family. That’s not a consequence, he needs to be in prison. Trump has been found guilty for just a few of his crimes, yet he’s still able to become president. He needs to rot in prison for the rest of his life too. Instead he’s free to do loads more crimes without consequences.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    101·
    26 days ago

    “Our client denies all charges of sexual abuse, as well as the majority of the charges regarding violence. He will present a detailed account of his version of events before the court.”

    “Look. Now. Listen, let me explain. I only violently abused them a little bit. We’ve all done that. Right? It was just a tiny bit of violence!!”

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    61·
    27 days ago

    Høiby is alleged to have raped four women between 2018 and November 2024. All the alleged assaults allegedly took place after consensual intercourse while the women were sleeping.

    I hope this goes better than Assange’s trial went.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      23·
      26 days ago

      Please read and and try to understand my point, I know that what follows may be controversial. I 110% agree that no one should be forced into acts which it doesn’t desire, and that the guy is a proven douche, but is it rape if it was in the frame of consensual sex? I love getting woken up by sexy stuff.

      Does getting in bed for a night of sex have to have a written out menu, script or 15 page contract? I can clearly discern between a soft, coy or giggly no, and a hard no, and don’t think I could force a woman to have sex with me (I find the concept so abhorrent I’d probably go limp). I’m the type that ensures “she’s had her fill (pun intended?) before I finish the meal”

      I think that if someone has gotten in bed with you for sex, and stays, it could be safe to assume they are open to more. Maybe he didn’t acknowledge a serious “No!” I don’t know.

      Also, it may be good to keep in mind what one of the old time heroic feminists, Greer, from the 60s-70s said that “often rape isn’t, it’s bad sex”.

      • aramis87@fedia.io
        4·
        26 days ago

        If two people are not actually explicitly communicating, then both of them are making assumptions. I’ve slept over at other people’s places because I’ve stayed late and the last bus/train has already left, because I’ve suddenly felt really tired and didn’t want to bother/didn’t feel safe to drive, because it was closer to work the next day, and, yes, because we fell asleep after sex. And absolutely none of that was consent for someone to start having sex with me while I was sleeping. Which is why communicating with your partners is important.

        Just because you like being woken up by sexy times doesn’t mean everyone enjoys it. As an example, someone who has been previously been raped or attempted raped might not appreciate it - which happens to be one out of every four woman in the United States.

        And the 12% of all women in the US who were raped by an “intimate partner” will likely particularly not appreciate it.

        It’s also likely that some of the 81% of US women who have suffered sexual harassment might have some problem with it. So, y’know, maybe you should start explicitly asking before having sex with someone, even if you did have sex earlier that night.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    22·
    27 days ago

    Always the ones you most expect…

    Just me or does he look like the love child of Matt Damon and Dominique Pinon from City of Lost Children?