[Scheherazade]

The question could further be posed: where was the outrage over the rape and murder of a thirteen year old child before the right wing had media coverage of a queer-bashing to compare it to? The sudden interest in child murder and– it seems clear that this is a big part of it for you– molestation is clearly not driven by true concern for young Jesse (been reading the National Liberty Journal, have we boys?). The sad fact is that children are raped and murdered daily. Now, most of these young unfortunates are girls being victimized by men, so I could see where it makes for a less exciting story. But it’s appalling and insulting that you take an interest only after the hate driven murder of a young gay man makes the news. Where’s your anger been for the girls who are sodomized and thrown in ditches to die? Why haven’t you been characterizing that as a hate crime based on gender? Why is it that, suddenly, you’re so angry that straight men have been pointed out as perpetrators that you pick one of thousands of sex crimes– this one involving the requisite all-male cast, highlighted be homosexuality– and tout it as singular, particularly horrific, and driven not by the sexual violence at the heart of most rapes but by homosexuality? No, it’s true, the rape of a thirteen year old and a subsequent murder don’t make the news. Because, gentlemen, it’s as common as dirt. Dare not forget in all of this that your daughters have been and are at greater risk, certainly, than the poor boy you’ve eulogized. This is no new crime. Sadly– and here’s where my own irritation with the Shepard case is– neither is gay bashing. It’s just that this time the media found some one young enough, white enough, blond enough, smart enough, male enough, and masculine enough to make a poster-victim out of. Much in the same way you seem to have found someone queer enough to make into poster-perpetrators. All these crimes are horrible; none of them are new, and the really scary thing is that we’re ignoring them all.

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Name : Scheherazade, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : dyke, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 22, City : Roanoke, State : VA, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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