CBS Correspondent Lara Logan Sexually Assualted in Tahrir Square

[Gatorubet]

Wow. This is Egypt.

I don't even know where to begin. She was in a mob. With all the mobs there recently I'm surprised there hasn't been more of this: there would be in the USA. And she wasn't raped.

Also, for the ignorant, even bad comic sites make fun of your stereotypes:

http://www.cracked.com/article_18911_5-ridiculous-things-you-probably-believe-about-islam.html

Where do you get the fact that she was not raped?

 

[OCBuckWife]

Maybe we'll find out more later. It seems odd that women and soldiers were able to rescue her. I guess those that attacked her were Mubarak supporters...but then, maybe they were just amped up angry men who saw her as a foreigner who was making things worse. Probably a huge amount of cultural aspect, in that she was not acting in a submissive role, but doing a "man's job", and possibly not dressing like they considered proper (not saying "suggestive", per se, just if she was not covered up enough it could be seen as another sign of her foreignness). No idea if she was dressed like Amanpour sometimes dresses. Lara seemed to avoid that strategy whenever I saw her.

Not saying she deserved it at all....but a few days earlier she was "hiding" from Mubarak thugs with an avowed agenda to attack foeign news crews. She had balls to go out, but what happened, however horrible, was one of the possibilities of her doing that job. Men get beaten in those situations. Women get raped. I hope she recovers.

Here I was, coming into the thread thinking I would be one of the first to say, hey, its a possibility of the job, thats why she had bodyguards, gotta accept the dangers of the job, yada yada, and Gator beat me too it. Damn you Gator for being pragmatic!

 

[WaitingforKickoff]

I guess those that attacked her were Mubarak supporters...

I bet it was Tyrone Willingham.

 

[kinch]

Where do you get the fact that she was not raped?

Crap. I forget? One article I read said that she wasn't raped but was sexually assaulted. For obvious reasons the reporter didn't want to go into it further. I hope she isn't pushed to do so.

This isn't to say that the article was definitely correct. It was linked to the thread on the subject on reddit.com. That is all I recall. It could also be that she simply didn't want whatever happened to be public. If she was raped I could very easily see her, understandably, simply want the media to go away. If she wasn't, well, same thing. The trauma of such an experience, whether she was technically raped or not, must be horrendous.

 

[buckeyegrad]

She was in a mob. With all the mobs there recently I'm surprised there hasn't been more of this: there would be in the USA.

Do we know this hasn't happened more? Or are other instances just not being reported? After all, if she wasn't an American journalist, but the same thing happened to her, would any of us know of the incident?

 

[BrutusBobcat]

Where do you get the fact that she was not raped?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tack-Stripped-punched-whipped-flag-poles.html

Because our salacious media would love to have headlines cry out "GANG RAPE IN CAIRO!" if that were indeed justifiable. "Sexual assault" is a weasel word that says "we can't say 'rape' for some reason, but really want you to think it so you'll watch/read our story". It implies rape, yet could mean anything from groping/stripping to a broken condom during consensual sex (I'm looking at you, serial condom-breaker Julian "sexual assault is the case that they gave me" Assange).

It's just like how every missing/murdered teenage girl is a "cheerleader" if she's ever so much as attended a high school basketball game and held up a free pom-pom handed out by the local credit union.