Tag archives for sex crime
Friday, January 19, 2007
Linkateria
Bunny is at war with the cats. The cats, especially Bubbles, have this thing going where they like to bat around their water dish. Whenever Bunny fills the dish, the cats will promptly spill at least half of it all over the kitchen floor. Bunny's had it. She went with the nuclear option.
Have you seen anything about that Celebrity Big Brother racism thing? It's a big hullabaloo in countries where people actually watch the show, like the UK. There are lots of news stories about the controversy, including this one, with it's dumbest headline ever: Are reality TV shows manufactured to grab attention? Well, fucking duh, of course they are.
The second dumbest headline ever is over at ABC News: Some Say It's OK for Girls to Go Wild. I say, yes, it's ok for girls to go wild. In fact, I would strongly encourage it.
In 2002, IDF Sergeant Kevin Cohen was killed in the line of duty while in Gaza. His mother had his sperm extracted and frozen. After several years, she's finally won the right to have a volunteer woman inseminated with her dead son's frozen sperm. How creepy is that?
In Philadelphia, a criminal defense lawyer was caught naked with a 14 year-old girl. He was caught in the courthouse, by a Sheriff's deputy. There do not exist strong enough words to describe how fucked that guy is.
Monday, June 5, 2006
I don't get…
…this whole Duke lacrosse team thing. Why is this rape national news? Rape is always horrible, always a crime, always a tragedy. I feel violated when I get burgled, I can only imagine how terrible a sex crime must be. So yes, the Duke lacrosse rape is a Very Bad Thing.
But what makes this particular rape so newsworthy? It's not like a bunch of jock frat boys behaving like assholes is a unique event. I would hazard a guess that out of all rapes at least several percentage points can be traced to collegiate cads.
So is it the victim then? I can't image a stripper being assaulted is that unusual either. Which is not to say that the victim "had it coming" because she's a stripper. But one must admit that it's probable that women who consistently objectify themselves are more often victimized. Don't psychiatrists and criminal profilers often say that objectification is one of the key elements in violent crime? The criminal stops thinking of the victim as a person, but as an object.
So if frat boys committing sex crimes isn't so out of the ordinary, and strippers being assaulted isn't so out of the ordinary, then what makes the Duke lacrosse case out of the ordinary? The FBI says that in 2004 (the most recent year for which complete statistics are available) 94,635 women were raped in the United States.
Ninety-four thousand six hundred thirty-five.
That's one rape every five minutes and thirty-three seconds. Why the hell aren't we talking about that? I don't get it. What the hell is so special about the Duke case that makes it more important than the rape that occurred while you were reading this?
Friday, May 19, 2006
Breaking! Internet predator exposed!
Why hasn't anyone noticed this before? Every single time Dateline does an exposé on internet predators, Chris Hanson is always there!
I can see how the production meetings go.
Producer guy: We need to do another "14 year old girl catching pervs" story.
Chris Hanson (thinking): 14 year old girls? I'm there.
It's all so obvious now. Anytime there's a house with a 14 year old girl meeting older men for sex, Chris Hanson is there. And it's been right in front of us all along. I feel so used. I'm going to be sick.
I can't quite decide…
…if this is funny or not. I know it's disgusting, but I'm not sure about funny.
You know those Dateline exposés about internet predators? It seems like they've done three of those just this month. Anyway, the new one was in Ft. Meyers, Florida. In that jurisdiction, the trapsters apparently help to demonstrate intent by asking the perv to do or bring something specific.
One would-be teen porker was asked to walk into the house naked. The guy complied. But there's more. Walking into the house naked was something the trapster insisted the perv do in return for "her" performing some kind of sex act on a cat.
The MSNBC write-up isn't too specific, but they hint around that this girl-on-cat action somehow involves Cool Whip.
Like I said, I know it's nasty. But I can't decide if it's funny or not.