Reply #24: The Media is an All-Male Club

[Hidden Stillness]

This is all part of their larger attitude of telling everything, every single story, from the male perspective only. Like all the stalker cases that they tell, only, as "poor lonely guy who loved too much," when that is not at all what stalkers (or their victims, painted as "cold bitches who rejected") are; like the "nice guy/bumpy marriage" O.J. Simpson--when the media had more male sports announcers, such as Bob Costas, "analyzing" things, than they had women battering-experts; and like the current males-fretting-over-Tiger-Woods, where I have actually heard males talking on TV on how Woods can keep the bulk of the fortune from the wife who was cheated on and humiliated over and over--so this case was told only from their hateful side. (Speaking of "innocent until proved guilty," they ALL claimed the wife violently attacked Woods with a golf club (!), and many "liberals" on DU cried about it and attacked anyone who called for a little evidence--it never happened.)

The Grand Jury had evidence of drugging of the babysitter, violent rape including sodomy, threats against her, and Polanski's fleeing. There was no lack of evidence on any level, particularly forensic. These things are always treated as trivia, as distractions from "real news," and are always laughed at when told over the media by males. They identify with the male, no matter what, every time.