Gayle in MD
03-17-2011, 01:45 AM
<span style="color: #990000"> What is it about Republicans? I would really like to know, what is wrong with these heartless people.
This is outrageous, and this sicko woman, should be removed from office.
The first headline I saw on this story, didn't indicate which party this idiot woman belonged to, so why did I KNOW, right away, that it would be another archaic, Republican woman, who had displayed such overwhelming ignorance, and cruelty!!!
Add this to my Republicans For Rape series.
REPULSIVE!!!! </span>
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>Republican lawmaker blames 11-year-old victim of alleged gang rape</span>
Elected officials should know better than to blame the victim of a sex crime.
While it's a common tactic of abusers, it's something no one expected of Republican Florida state Rep. Kathleen Passidomo.
During debate over a bill that would legislate a dress code for Florida students, Passidomo blamed the alleged gang raping of an 11-year-old in Cleveland, Texas on the way the young girl was dressed.
"There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gangraped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute," Passidomo declared.
"And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students," she added.
Broward/Palm Beach New Times' Brandon Thorp was shocked.
"Whoa!" he wrote. "As a genus, politicians aren't the brightest wicks in the candelabra, but they usually possess sufficient self-awareness to shield the public from the horrorshows of their minds. Blaming the rape of an 11-year-old girl on her parents' sense of fashion -- and to do so out loud -- smacks of rank amateurism."
At a civc meeting in Cleveland following the crime, local residents there had also placed blame on the girl.
"Many who attended the meeting said they supported the group of men and boys who have been charged in the case," The Associated Press reported. "Supporters didn't claim that the men and boys did not have sex with the young girl; instead they blamed the girl for the way she dressed or claimed she must have lied about her age — accusations that have drawn strong responses from those who note an 11-year-old cannot consent to sex and that it doesn't matter how she was dressed."
Even a New York Times article on the alleged rape was widely criticized for lack of balance.
"[Residents] said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s," the Times reported.
"These elements, creating an impression of concern for the perpetrators and an impression of a provocative victim, led many readers to interpret the subtext of the story to be: she had it coming," Times public editor Arthur Brisbane noted several days later.
"We live in a society that continues to blame and shame victims of sexual assault," Kelly Boros, communications manager of the Houston Area Women’s Center, told El Gato Media Network.
"It is disheartening but not surprising to see rape myths perpetuated in the news; sometimes subtly and sometimes blatantly."
https://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-nat...ang-rape-victim (https://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-national/republican-lawmaker-blames-11-year-old-texas-gang-rape-victim)
Tuesday, Florida state Rep. Kathleen Passidomo shocked colleagues and other observers. Speaking on the state house floor Passidomo made the outrageous claim that a little girl in Texas was gang raped because of the way she was dressed.
Passidimo, a Republican, was speaking in favor of a House bill that would mandate schools adopt dress codes. Known as the "sagging pants" bill, the legislation would require school districts to adopt a dress code that prohibits students from "wearing clothing that exposes underwear or body parts in an indecent or vulgar manner." Passidimo, in speaking in favor of the bill, said the following:
"There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gang raped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute," she said. "And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students."
Passidino actually made the astonishing and outrageous claim that an 11 year old was gang raped because of the way she was dressed. Passidino all but said the little girl deserved to be raped because of her supposed inappropriate attire and presentation.
The brutal and disturbing gang rape of an 11 year old girl has divided the community of Cleveland, Texas, and sparked a national conversation. In Cleveland, eighteen community members are now under arrest, accused of sexually assaulting the girl at an abandoned mobile home. Yet to the astonishment of outsiders, many community members are blaming the 11 year old victim.
And just like some of those community members, Passidimo is also blaming the victim, a little 11 year old girl, for being the victim of this most heinous crime. When will Passidimo and others like her learn? The way a woman or a young girl dresses is a justification for nothing. There is never an excuse or justification for rape. The fact that this is the rape of a child only magnifies the hideous nature of the crime.
This is outrageous, and this sicko woman, should be removed from office.
The first headline I saw on this story, didn't indicate which party this idiot woman belonged to, so why did I KNOW, right away, that it would be another archaic, Republican woman, who had displayed such overwhelming ignorance, and cruelty!!!
Add this to my Republicans For Rape series.
REPULSIVE!!!! </span>
<span style='font-size: 11pt'>Republican lawmaker blames 11-year-old victim of alleged gang rape</span>
Elected officials should know better than to blame the victim of a sex crime.
While it's a common tactic of abusers, it's something no one expected of Republican Florida state Rep. Kathleen Passidomo.
During debate over a bill that would legislate a dress code for Florida students, Passidomo blamed the alleged gang raping of an 11-year-old in Cleveland, Texas on the way the young girl was dressed.
"There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gangraped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute," Passidomo declared.
"And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students," she added.
Broward/Palm Beach New Times' Brandon Thorp was shocked.
"Whoa!" he wrote. "As a genus, politicians aren't the brightest wicks in the candelabra, but they usually possess sufficient self-awareness to shield the public from the horrorshows of their minds. Blaming the rape of an 11-year-old girl on her parents' sense of fashion -- and to do so out loud -- smacks of rank amateurism."
At a civc meeting in Cleveland following the crime, local residents there had also placed blame on the girl.
"Many who attended the meeting said they supported the group of men and boys who have been charged in the case," The Associated Press reported. "Supporters didn't claim that the men and boys did not have sex with the young girl; instead they blamed the girl for the way she dressed or claimed she must have lied about her age — accusations that have drawn strong responses from those who note an 11-year-old cannot consent to sex and that it doesn't matter how she was dressed."
Even a New York Times article on the alleged rape was widely criticized for lack of balance.
"[Residents] said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s," the Times reported.
"These elements, creating an impression of concern for the perpetrators and an impression of a provocative victim, led many readers to interpret the subtext of the story to be: she had it coming," Times public editor Arthur Brisbane noted several days later.
"We live in a society that continues to blame and shame victims of sexual assault," Kelly Boros, communications manager of the Houston Area Women’s Center, told El Gato Media Network.
"It is disheartening but not surprising to see rape myths perpetuated in the news; sometimes subtly and sometimes blatantly."
https://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-nat...ang-rape-victim (https://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-national/republican-lawmaker-blames-11-year-old-texas-gang-rape-victim)
Tuesday, Florida state Rep. Kathleen Passidomo shocked colleagues and other observers. Speaking on the state house floor Passidomo made the outrageous claim that a little girl in Texas was gang raped because of the way she was dressed.
Passidimo, a Republican, was speaking in favor of a House bill that would mandate schools adopt dress codes. Known as the "sagging pants" bill, the legislation would require school districts to adopt a dress code that prohibits students from "wearing clothing that exposes underwear or body parts in an indecent or vulgar manner." Passidimo, in speaking in favor of the bill, said the following:
"There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gang raped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed like a 21-year-old prostitute," she said. "And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students."
Passidino actually made the astonishing and outrageous claim that an 11 year old was gang raped because of the way she was dressed. Passidino all but said the little girl deserved to be raped because of her supposed inappropriate attire and presentation.
The brutal and disturbing gang rape of an 11 year old girl has divided the community of Cleveland, Texas, and sparked a national conversation. In Cleveland, eighteen community members are now under arrest, accused of sexually assaulting the girl at an abandoned mobile home. Yet to the astonishment of outsiders, many community members are blaming the 11 year old victim.
And just like some of those community members, Passidimo is also blaming the victim, a little 11 year old girl, for being the victim of this most heinous crime. When will Passidimo and others like her learn? The way a woman or a young girl dresses is a justification for nothing. There is never an excuse or justification for rape. The fact that this is the rape of a child only magnifies the hideous nature of the crime.