Welcome to your weekend open thread. The Italian Festival starts this weekend. How many of you are planning to attend? It’s festival season!
I can certainly understand being fed up with the press feeding frenzy surrounding the teenager who communicated with Anthony Weiner, but this is the wrong response:
As Moton was preparing to do a live feed for Channel 6′s 11 p.m. broadcast, a man claiming to be a neighbor of the girl stood next to him wanting to speak to the on-site producer. When told there was no producer on site, the man told Action News — and other reporters — he wanted them to leave the public sidewalk they were on.
They did not and so the man left the scene muttering about returning with a bat. The man returned, this time shirtless and wielding an ax. The man stood next to Ruane motioning a strike with the ax. The man even tapped Ruane’s tripod and repeatedly banged the ax on the concrete ground — all while being photographed by other media.
As Moton went on with his segment, the man – ax in hand — walked behind the TV reporter, stopping a car and angrily shouting slurs.
No one was hurt and the neighbor was taken into custody. Hopefully the story will end here.
Sexist douche of the week award goes to Dan Rottenberg! You know you’re in trouble when the summary of your article is this:
Earth to liberated women: When you display legs, thighs or cleavage, some liberated men will see it as a sign that you feel good about yourself and your sexuality. But most men will see it as a sign that you want to get laid. Forewarned is forearmed.
That’s right ladies, men are just animals just ready to rape you! They just can’t control themselves, so it’s all your fault. Rottenberg uses the Lara Logan case to give advice:
Smullens argues that women need to speak up and speak out when they’re victimized, as Lara Logan has done, and of course she is right. But having stumbled across a CBS publicity photo for Lara Logan (above), I can’t thinking that women also need to take sensible precautions before they’re victimized.
For example: Don’t trust your male friends. Don’t go to a man’s home at night unless you’re prepared to have sex with him. Don’t disrobe in front of a male masseur. If you take a job as a masseuse, don’t be shocked if your male customers think you’re a prostitute. And if you want to be taken seriously as a journalist, don’t pose for pictures that emphasize your cleavage.
Yes, yes, I know: Each of us wears many personas. A woman journalist like Lara Logan should be able to celebrate herself as both a journalist and a woman, even a sexy woman. But the operative word in that sentence— should— is the sticky point.
That’s right – Logan was raped because she showed cleavage in a publicity picture. Excuse me while I go throw up in the corner.