[quote] Harriet's father's statement was stomach-churning in how he took Greenwood's side over his own daughter and was minimising the whole thing.. jesus. With a father like that, what hope did she have? No wonder she didn't walk straight away.
Yes, Mr. Robson seems to favour Mason over his own flesh-and-blood, and it’s not a stretch to surmise that this is because he didn’t want the gravy train of Premier League money (as detailed by R30) to stop rolling for his family. Either that, or he’s dickmatized by secondary proximity to a ‘star’ of a hypermasculine world of performance. Or both. Regardless, his behaviour is despicable and not permissible.
The best/worst comment Mr. Robson made:
[quote] ROBSON: We told Harriet to take [the social media posts used as evidence] down, which she has done, but it’s out there now so it is too late. She is devastated because she didn’t want it released. We have known him since the under-21s (broadly, an age category in football leagues). He has been part of our family for years. Their relationship has not been good for the last few months. She is completely devastated by it all.
What those outside of the situation who have not experienced abuse need to understand is the subtext of this: Daddy is trying to control the narrative of Harriet’s life harder than even her abusive ex was, and this is obvious from the way he speaks over and for her, as if he knows best what she as an adult woman in distress needs and wants or could ever understand what she’s going through. He alleges that “[Harriet] didn’t want [the evidence] released”, but it’s very hard to believe that claim when the images & audio were posted by her private account with lucid comments and left up for over a day, followed by other posts & replies by her on the same account.
Though the problem is with an abusive extrafamilial relationship in which his daughter was trapped, Daddy is quick to clarify the relationship *he* has with the accused (as if that counts for anything?) and to emphasise why his bond with Greenwood matters more than a repeat criminal offense committed by Greenwood that victimised one of his family members. Mr. Robson is absolutely covering tracks.
This father absolutely trampled his daughter’s courage and honesty (@R21!) into the dirt, because he doesn’t want to hurt the precious fee-fees or damage the reputation of a young man (of no direct relation to him, with independent wealth and elite status), and in this way presumably safeguard perks or his own image as a patriarch. One wonders what Mr. Robson might have told the world if his son were famous and had been exposed as an abuser.
Depressing how this whole situation arose. Misogynistic violence really begins in the home and in private communities, and not enough hardline progress is being made to limit male violence and re-educate boys. DV is on the rise, and measures must be taken now to prevent further decline. How, though, when even police are abusers, and when courts can be bought, and when self-proclaimed family men throw their girls & women to the wolves? What then?
Enough of this ‘lock up your daughters’ shite, at least—it clearly doesn’t work well as a preventative, does it?