Saudi rape case: Boyfriend was raped too, and given same sentence, but media focuses only on female

Man raped = comedy, woman raped = tragedy (even when it didn't happen)

Putting aside the media's complete and deliberate ignorance of the fact that the man received the same punishment for the same crime, don't you just love the fact that the MSM claims she's being punished for being raped? Uh, no, girls - she's being punished for being alone in private with a man she wasn't married to or related to, same as the man is, because it's illegal under Saudi law (whether we agree with that law or not is irrelevant). Her punishment was later raised on appeal for trying to be an attention whore by drawing the media into the legal process, something the man did NOT do.

So how do you like that: REAL equality in a justice system, and it happened in Saudi Arabia, of all places. Who knew that feminism had come so far in that part of the Middle East!

Yup, in big, bad, ol' misogynistic (the world's most trite and overused slur) Saudi Arabia, when a man and a woman committed the same "crime", they received exactly the same sentence.

Little wonder the feminists and their boot-licking pals in the media are foaming at the mouth about the "injustices" against women in that country! It's not like she was treated equally or anything. Oh, wait...

Remember, a man and a woman being convicted of the exact same crime and receiving the exact same sentence is "injustice" to a feminist, 100% female leadership is "male oppression", well, I'm sure you saw the list I wrote a few months back.

So, following SSOTL's lead:

Man given a barbaric sentence for a trivial crime = "justice", "not news"
Woman sentenced identically for the identical crime = "injustice", "news"

N.O.W. I think I get it! It's only "equality" (oops! sorry! they call it "equity" to avoid attracting responsibility) when it favors women somehow, and just as the MSM won't report the fact that essentially all cultures (except ours) that practice FGM also practice equally barbaric forms of MGM, the media is happy to ignore real equality under the law on the freakishly rare occasion when it actually happens because it might interfere with the well-established victim complex they've instilled in middle-class, western, white, female consumers.

Got another one for you, SSOTL:

Doublethink = a girl's best friend.

And they wonder why we don't take them seriously. To the women who are braindead enough to fall for this sort of blatant manipulation, I say "free your minds, ladies, and your fat asses will surely follow. You're only victims of yourselves".

They are victims of themselves. The lives of countless women have been ruined by this dysfuctional nonsense, as well as the lives of countless men. I don't mean to suggest that women are the victims here, of course-- it's men who are getting shafted. But everybody is worse off because of feminism, except for the useless asses filling seats at NOW headquarters and elsewhere.

I have heard endlessly about this woman being raped and then punished, but until now I never once heard that the boyfriend was raped, too. THAT'S how misandric our media is - the boyfriend is invisible.

sjones..The main stream media that instills our politically correct predudices.. keeps the boyfriend out of it because it lessons the hysteria impact!!

I fully agree, sjones2. Everyone I talk to only knows about the woman, not the man. The media got themselves a sensational story by only talking about the woman and by misleading the public into thinking she was blamed for being raped, when in fact she and her boyfriend were punished for being alone together which was against the law and punishable by lashings.

The court sentenced both the woman and her boyfriend to 90 lashes, and sentenced the rapists to jail time and lashes. Then the woman, and the rapists, but apparently not the boyfriend, appealed. The appellate court gave them all higher sentences. It doesn't appear the boyfriend appealed. It's likely that a characteristic of that judicial system is that you risk a higher punishment when you appeal.

But no, not to the media. The media saw the increased sentence as a perfect opportunity to make a sesnationalistic story about a woman being blamed and punished for having been raped. To make that story, they had to keep the boyfriend's experience hidden in the details, if he was to be mentioned at all. Many stories did not even mention him. The ones that did, like this one, only mention him minimally and then on to use the singular word "victim."

And then we heard on and on and on about how women are treated in Saudi Arabia, and, of course, all around the world.

This is a great example is the media turning reality on its head and ignoring and covering up male suffering and victimization in order to sensationalize and sell a story.

We should be "used to" this by now I guess, but it is absolutely disgusting.

LIFT THE MEDIA LACE CURTAIN!!!

Many may think that a strange question, but given how strange that place is, I just have to ask it. What "exactly" happened to the Saudi man who was raped? We don't normally talk about those things out of deference to the victims, but the way the male is ignored by western media in this story, maybe we should. Obviously, the man is being raped again by western media by ignoring his plight. While were at it was the woman raped in the "traditional" way or did something aberrant happen there?

Unbelievable. They give details of the story and mention the boyfriend but NOTHING about how he was raped too. As I read them it sounds like the boyfriend was setting her up to be raped, unless I know he was raped too.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/28/wsaudi128.xml

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22801588-1702,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21332543-2,00.html

Maybe she set him up to be raped.