Tonight, I heard Bob S. - CBS - refer to the Iraqi rape victim as a woman

Bobbieo

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Mon Jul-10-06 09:32 PM
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Tonight, I heard Bob S. - CBS - refer to the Iraqi rape victim as a woman

instead of a teen-ager and that surprised me. I wonder if he would have used the term "woman" if this incident would have taken place in the U.S.

I realize in the Iraqi culture at 14 years of age, a female is considered to be a woman and of marriageable age.

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bluethruandthru

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Mon Jul-10-06 09:35 PM
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1. Let them know that you're pissed!

Send CBS an e-mail and ask them why they're referring to a 14 year old girl as a woman? Let them know that you'd like them to explain that on-air for their viewers.

It may seem useless, but we all need to let the MSM know that we're sick of the spin. As long as they think no one's paying attention, they'll keep doing it.

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Mayberry Machiavelli

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Mon Jul-10-06 09:37 PM
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2. Jerry Springer, on AAR, called her a "young woman" just this morning.

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peekaloo

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Mon Jul-10-06 09:40 PM
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3. Yet last night the weekend guy, Russ Mitchell, identified her as a

14 year old girl.

:shrug:

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Bobbieo

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Mon Jul-10-06 09:49 PM
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6. Saw that last night, Peekaloo

That is why I wondered why Bob referred to her as a woman, tonight.

Also noted that the insurgents who beheadeded our two service men in retailiation for her rape and murder referred to her as our "sister" not "daughter". They looked upon her as a woman.

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NNN0LHI

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Mon Jul-10-06 09:45 PM
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4. Tweety had trouble with this tonight

He said woman, and then mumbled something else, but he never could just say the truth. I wonder why?

Don

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jaxx

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Mon Jul-10-06 09:46 PM
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5. CNN called her a 14 year old woman.

I wonder if they call their teen aged daughters that too?

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October

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Mon Jul-10-06 09:57 PM
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7. So true. Imagine them saying "14 year old man." ......n/t

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Crunchy Frog

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Mon Jul-10-06 10:04 PM
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8. No more so than in the United States.

Apparently 15 is the youngest an Iraqi girl can legally marry with the consent of her parents. There are some places in the U.S. where it goes as low as 13. (There was another thread discussing this, but I don't have a link for it.)

This seems to be a talking point that is getting pushed in order to make the events seem somehow less heinous than they actually are. I'm not buying into it.

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cry baby

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Mon Jul-10-06 10:11 PM
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9. I heard her referred to as a teenager on CNN once

and a woman in another report on the same network.

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Ms. Clio

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Mon Jul-10-06 10:15 PM
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10. No, that's a huge generalization about "Iraqi culture"

Certainly for middle and upper class urban families that would not be true at all.

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Ilsa

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Mon Jul-10-06 10:15 PM
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11. I think teenager would be a more precise description.

Maybe some of them are afraid of being slammed by not calling her a woman if she had reached menarche or something. But the safest term is "teenager".

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lumberjack_jeff

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Mon Jul-10-06 10:18 PM
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12. The term "girl" is considered diminutive

Edited on Mon Jul-10-06 10:26 PM by lumberjack_jeff

You rarely hear the phrase "17 year old girl" but you often hear the term "17 year old boy".

Girl is the correct term, but I'm not surprised that the media has been conditioned to avoid it. (And yes, there is an element of downplaying the full extent of the soldier's crime)

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HuffleClaw

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Mon Jul-10-06 10:22 PM
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13. i think they simply can't bring themselves to say 'child'

media bias towards the american 'good guys' has been well-established.

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