The news media discovers the crime of rape

Amanda at Pandagon echoes my thoughts completely in her post about how CNN finally wakes up to the horror that is rape when men are the victims. "Then the story," she says, "gets on CNN and the audience learns all sorts of alarming things about rape, such as how traumatizing and humiliating it can be."

The post covers all of the other relevant issues: that straight men are afraid to report rape because there is something so "gay" about it; that gay men, like women, are afraid to report rape because they will be blamed for it, and that we don't talk about the rape of men in prisons because "they somehow deserve it even more than women or gay men."

Of course, we are talking about CNN, the poorest excuse for a "news" organization imaginable.