By Helen Benedict
ISBN-10: 0195086651
ISBN-13: 9780195086652
ISBN-10: 1423738306
ISBN-13: 9781423738305
Within the previous few years, the nationwide press has lavished assurance on a number of significant sex-related scandals: the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, and the Mike Tyson case. With each one occasion got here lurid tales pitting both a unfastened or virginal lady opposed to an unwilling or sizeable guy. Such severe assurance, argues Helen Benedict, perpetuates myths which are damaging to sufferers of those crimes (and occasionally to the accused). In Virgin or Vamp Benedict examines the press's therapy of 4 infamous intercourse crimes from the previous decade--the Rideout marital rape trial in Oregon, the large Dan's pool desk gang rape in Massachusetts, the ''Preppy Murder'' in ny urban, and the vital Park jogger case--and exhibits how sufferers are labelled both as virgins or vamps, a convention she condemns as deceptive and damaging. Benedict additionally appears at different components that perpetuate the misconception of rape. for example, she indicates how the recent York press provided the critical Park jogger rape case as stimulated by means of racism as a result of its unwillingness to think about rape a topic of gender. She additionally addresses our inherent language bias, the press's tendency to take advantage of sexually suggestive language to explain crime sufferers, and its choice for crimes opposed to whites. In end, Benedict deals a couple of strategies that may aid newshounds disguise those more and more universal crimes with out extra harming the sufferers, the defendants, or public figuring out.
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This was another interracial rape, only this time it became a landmark because the accused were four white men and the victim was a black college student. The Time magazine story about the case embraced the "rapists are seedy loners" myth, while patting whites on the back for overcoming their racist legacy and achieving justice. Even the headline was self-congratulatory. PASSING THE TEST In a legal sense, it was four young, white Florida Tobacco Readers who were on trial last week in a sweltering Tallahassee courtroom.
As soon as the 28 Virgin or Vamp train arrived, nine of the black youths, aged thirteen to twenty, were arrested. The two women tried to run away but were cornered by the posse. 16 The nine black youths barely escaped a lynching, protected by the local sheriffs and the National Guard. Eventually, after a three-day trial in a packed courtroom, eight of them were sentenced to death for the rape by an all-white, male jury. The ninth, Roy Wright, was given life imprisonment because he was under fourteen.
Although the Martinsville Seven did not receive as much press attention as did McGee, their case became a further occa- Sex Crimes in the Press 33 sion for the leftist newspapers of the time to set black men against white women. In 1951, another notorious rape case occurred, this time in Florida. It involved two black men accused of raping a seventeen-year-old white housewife. ) These men were also sentenced to death, amid much publicity, but the sentence was reversed because, once again, no blacks had been allowed on the jury.
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