Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Bingo. Went to Stop Prisoner Rape's website (excellent people; I need to send them money this year.)
SPR is pressuring the FBI to reform its practice of including only female rape victims in its annual report on violent crime statistics. The FBI’s reporting procedures ignore the thousands of men who are victims of rape behind bars every year and promote outdated assumptions about rape and gender.
The answer to your question is "no".
Excellent peeps indeed, even if every mention of the Prison Rape Elimination Act makes me wonder why we can't just get a Rape Elimination Act.
Because prison rape is generally regarded as tolerable -- people joke about people going to prison being raped as if it were a legal part of the punishment.
When you say tolerable, you mean tolerable by people not in prison, right? I mean, I'd say it's expected.
Maybe I was confused, then, and it was that men are the most often the perpetrators of violent crime.
It's possible that the relative proportion of aggressors to victims is higher among men than it is among women. By which I mean, out of a hundred men, 10 might be aggressors and 20 might be victims, whereas out of a hundred women 3 might be aggressors and 15 might be victims. (And the victims and aggressors sets may overlap, as well.)
Does that make sense? And I pulled those numbers out of my ass, just for hypothetical purposes.
I mean, I'd say it's expected.
That's the point. The common wisdom thinks it's not only tolerable but good for criminals to rape one another in prison. You hear jokes made about convicted criminals getting raped. Prison rape shocks the conscience less than civilian rape.
I think it shouldn't. I think we shouldn't turn a blind eye to prisoners raping each other (and guards raping prisoners) any more than to their murdering each other.
The common wisdom thinks it's not only tolerable but good for criminals to rape one another in prison.
Hmm. Your common wisdom is harsher than mine. I do see it as "a bonus reason to not go to jail," but it's not the only one -- shanking and other illegal things that happen there are int he same box in my head.
Your common wisdom is harsher than mine.
Look at all the jokes that were made about Martha Stewart's cellmate.
Look at all the jokes that were made about Martha Stewart's cellmate.
Perhaps my not having seen any jokes about her cellmate reflects the composition of my common wisdom.
I've interpreted it as expected, near inevitable, but to be avoided by not going to jail, just like selling yourself for extra cigarettes or being stabbed in the shower for looking at the NOI guy wrong.
That's all. I'm not challenging your conventional wisdom. I'm explaining mine.
Look at all the jokes that were made about Martha Stewart's cellmate.
Coincidently, Sean just posted the lyrics to the song "Date Rape" over in Bitches that talks about it, too.
Sean K "Spike's Bitches 20: We'll catch the Natterers yet." Dec 3, 2004 10:36:28 am PST
That's the way it had to be.
They locked him up and threw away the key.
Well, I can't take pity on men of his kind,
even though he now takes it in the behind.
(eta: Nevermind...)