If NewsLanc or others were to kid about rape of women in prison, we would be subject to a fire storm of female protestation… and deservedly.
Yet the airways are filled, including even the more erudite talk shows, with kidding about the fate of former Illinois governor Rob Blagojevich while serving a draconian sentence to fourteen years in prison.
We believe that this type of humor serves to give a totally inappropriate ‘nod and wink’ to non coessential male homosexuality…indeed, male rape.
More appropriately our efforts should be to protect prisoners from such worry and abuse. Indeed, if it is our intention to have them raped, then we should at least rent them out!
Yes I agree that the humor is somewhat hypocritical and risky, but how is the sentence “draconian”? Do we not take our government seriously? I know we don’t, but feel we should.
In this age of wrist-slapping punishments for white collar crime it’s refreshing to see a judge take proper action against greedy offenders with virtually no background factors compel them to break the law. If only our own Pa judges would have view corruption as seriously when they sentenced Fumo!
I agree with NewsLanc. Rape is unethical, illegal, and not part of the sentence. A joke is a joke, fine, but the widespread levity in our culture about the subject serves to at best unwittingly promote the attitude that such behavior is acceptable.