I'm glad you called attention to this. They know next to nothing about this case, and they shouldn't be reporting it at all, instead, they're dressing it up like some sort of freak show or something, a curiosity for spectators.
Gender switch: Islamic attitude to women.
I would have posted the whole thing. I'm going to post the rest. Special attention to the next three paragraphs, but the whole thing really warrants a read. They're laughing it up. They even basically admit they're laughing it up, and this is the last thing men need to think that they could end up in a dirtsheet and have people laughing at them, the stigma is bad enough.
Here's the rest:
Around the assignment desk at this paper Monday, there were both chortles and priggish warnings not to play snide or mischievous with the slim facts as we know them. Mustn’t be seen to make light of an alleged sexual crime simply because the victim is a male, which would be reverse sexism and a double standard — men’s rights groups the first to pounce, no doubt — despite the obvious snickering quotient.
Sexual assault, you say? Lucky guy others say, nudge-nudge, a fivesome and didn’t even have to pay for it.
It allegedly happened a couple of weeks ago, a Saturday night, though only publicized by police this past weekend, the inference to be drawn that perhaps the victim pondered his options for a while, perchance needed some coaxing to report, or grew increasingly angry as the days passed.
According to police, the teenager met the suspects at a nightclub in the Entertainment District but — while investigators would like potential witnesses to come forward with any information they might possess — cops aren’t saying which nightclub, which seems self-defeating.
The teen left this no-name club with the ladies after they offered him a ride home. Instead he was driven to a parking lot near Queen St. W. and Spadina Ave., where he was allegedly sexually assaulted by all four of the dames. Afterwards he was released and the women took off in the silver Honda SUV.
Enquiring minds are eager to know what the heck befell this young man at the hands of his tormentors — one of whom, according to a newspaper report, apparently spoke with a British accent and had a tattoo on her neck. Already I’m jumping to certain conjectures about this doll crew: fat and butchy, maybe self-designated vigilantistas, depending on what had transpired with their target earlier, at the bar.
Sexual assault is no laughing matter — I’m writing this column with a straight face — though often taken way out of context on the statistics table; a pinch on the bottom can be equated to far more intrusive and traumatizing invasiveness of one’s personal space. Some “assaults’’ are merely unwanted touching, annoying for an adult woman but should be slapped down when they occur rather than directed to police. Eighty-one per cent of such assaults — those reported to police departments in Canada, according to the most recent figures I could find — fall into the unwanted touching zone.
We do instinctively think of sexual assault as something done to women by men because the stats bear that out: 90 per cent of victims are female and 99 per cent of the offenders are male.
These clubbing vamps are a bizarre anomaly, pack hunters in their getaway SUV — Thelma and Louise and Tiffany and Debi, four white chicks who may have gang-groped or otherwise molested a teenager because they didn’t have the balls to pick on, or pick up, a man their own age.
Wanted: Bad girls in black minidresses and stilettos, approach with caution.
