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[leastlikely]

My buddy aciel shared with me this blog entry over at Anglofille - An American in Bloomsbury and I thought I should share it with you all.

The entry is called Dead Girls and it's looking at the recent murder of three women in a Pennsylvania health club as a hate crime. Mainstream media is portraying the shooter, George Sodini, as a victim: he's been

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[arabwel]

It jsut makes me sick.

it also makes me thinkk how different the media coverage would be if you flipped the genders but kept the situation exactly the same :/

[rocza]

Mainstream media is portraying the shooter, George Sodini, as a victim:
Er, really? All the mainstream media I've seen is portraying him as a really sick, alternatively sad person who was misogynist and pissed at women. They've definitely highlighted that he felt like he was a victim, but I haven't seen a single source - not even Fox - suggest that anyone is to blame but his own self-delusions

[ilion]

Didn't I already tell you your facts have nothing to do with it?!?!

[rocza]

Pfft. YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO OPPRESS ME YOU MISOGYNISTIC MALE!

...wait, is that redundant?

[zinnea]

I agree. I have seen an awful lot of nonsense babbled about but the media coverage has been spot on as far as I can see.

[tn_tiger]

I can't say that I feel that he's made out to be a victim; but I have been waiting for someone to call a spade a spade in terms of hate crime. It is almost like his motive has been glossed over somehow, in a way it would not with any other hate crime.