Have you been accused of sexual assault lately? Well, if not don't
worry. There's still plenty of time for it to happen. It seems that the
entire front page of my daily newspaper is a sex assault reports. Women
and some men....and some of those "other sexes' are all coming out of
the closet to announce that they were victims, usually at the hands of
some Hollywood type or politician. Since we think so little of
Hollywood and of politicians it's not entirely painful to see. But when
Sulu of the original Star Trek TV show was accused of pulling down the
pants of a young male model 25 years ago I was ready to aim a phaser
gun at the accuser. Captain Kirk! Please bring some order to this
strange new world called earth (but only if you didn't also molest).
It is a tragedy when one person sexually assaults another or when one
falsely accuses the same. But I get the idea! Do I have to read of
another assault? It's starting to assault me and make me think I am in
danger of a Sulu attack myself. I also wonder what constitutes a sexual
assault. At the moment the term is quite broadly defined. Some accusers
state they were raped or groped, clearly real assault, but others
complain that another person "touched me" or said "unkind words to me
that had sexual references". I suspect the later is best left off the
front page. Also, I prefer not to read of those incidents and instead
let the district attorney of the locale where they were alleged to have
happened, do the investigation and file charges when appropriate.
When news mediums become infatuated with the latest sexual assault
charge they tend to forget more important news, that is news that
personally impacts us all. My own standard for what is newsworthy is
that which is 1) something I need to know and 2) something that affects
me. The feeding frenzy on sexual abuse allegations most often fails
that standard. But we are living in the excess information age, the
fake news and saturated news platform era. Whatever is shocking is
newsworthy now. Thanks, Internet! (note that I sighed at this point).
I do hope soon that the molestation news obsession will fade and be
replaced by real news. Hey! I have an idea. Just to make the transition
smooth, perhaps President Trump can claim that while in Asia for a
meeting, that he was patted on the butt by the Chinese premier.
Ugh...no pictures are need of that.
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