*Trigger Warning: Homicide and Rape* In the interests of total transparency, I should admit something right off the bat: I don’t have an enormous amount of sympathy for rapists and killers. I know! I’m weird like that, but there we are. I think it’s actually an allergy, because every time I hear someone expressing concern about how raping someone or killing someone affects the perpetrator’s career, I break out in extreme eye-rolling and increasingly hysterical laughter. So this week has been playing absolute havoc with my allergies. First up, Oscar Pistorius, again. Pistorius has been back in court in South Africa for his sentencing for the killing of Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius’s unflappable lawyer, Barry Roux, has argued that Pistorius, who pumped four dum-dum bullets into his girlfriend’s body, has suffered quite enough by now and should be spared prison. Roux said that Pistorius “lost a person he loved” – editorial interjection here: he “lost” her because he killed her – “[he lost] his self-respect, most of his friends, his career, all his properties, all his money. He’s lost everything.” This, of course, is not strictly true: he hasn’t lost his life, unlike Steenkamp. But then, Roux added sorrowfully, “He has lost his sponsors.” Calling the world’s tiniest violin, your services are required! It’s true, Pistorius probably won’t be bagging any more lucrative contracts from Thierry Mugler, but such is the price one pays for shooting a gun in the middle of the night at a noise you hear in your house without bothering to check if it’s actually your girlfriend. ~LA theguardian/commentisfree/2014/oct/17/oscar-pistorius-ched-evans
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:58:12 +0000
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