Friday, July 17, 2009

again, i hate everyone

Presented for your edification:

http://tinyurl.com/kvc2mz

How many layers of wrong do we have here? That there should be photographic evidence of a rape and the DA still refuses to pursue the case? That the DA then shows the evidence to people who have no right to look at it, because...why exactly?...he decides to purposely humiliate a 17 year old who has already been assaulted? That his "punishment" for this was being suspended for, OMG, a whole six months? And then, that in reporting this heinous bit of news, the perp is described as "having sex" with the victim while she pleads with him to stop? (Hint: if the person you are having sex with is pleading for you to NOT DO THAT, you aren't having sex, you're raping someone. Really, journalists, use the right terminology.)

In comments I read on this elsewhere, someone made the remark that there are, apparently, men who don't really get that rape is a crime, or that if they acknowledge that it is, classify it as somewhere near jaywalking in the hierarchy of seriousness. Um, yeah. That can be the only explanation for this shit.

xoxo

1 comment:

Uncle said...

Apologies on behalf of the rest of my theoretical gender. Nothing else to say to this or the next one.