To sodomize v to impale anally

TO SODOMIZE V TO IMPALE ANALLY
Members of the Media:

Please consider and discuss the following comments about the verb “to sodomize" which is in the news a lot these days in the Houston area because of the pipe attack on the young man from Spring, Texas.

1. The media often use “sodomize" to mean everything from impaling someone annaly to sucking a child’s peepee.
2. Sodomy is often used as a synonym or euphemism or pejorism for homosexuality.
3. Sodomy often denotes anal or oral sex but connotes mostly homosexual anal or oral sex.
4. Sodomy is sometimes used to include bestiality.

By contrast, no one ever says Monica Lewinsky “sodomized” Bill Clinton or vice-versa.

By contrast, no one ever says Frida Kahlo, wife of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, was sexually assaulted or sodomized by the city bus accident that left her impaled in the vaginal area.

Conclusion: When the media says the Spring youth was sodomized, they are using a hugely vague and problematic term. They/you are assuming the youths who did this had sexual intent. What data supports that? Did they jerk off simultaneously? Is there semen residue? Did they shout sexual insults. No. All of that seems lacking. Shouldn’t a good defense attorney raise all these issues in defense of these attackers? Shouldn’t reporters withhold judgement?

Sidebar: The media people, particularly the print reporters, are the wordsmiths. They, not the police, are responsible for the words they choose in telling their stories. A reporter can cite the legal charge in one place without slipping into vague and unjustified language elsewhere in the story. It is clear this was a pipe attack. It is not clear this was sexual assault. When the media says “sodomy” here, they bias the report. They add to the bad name of oral and anal sex and they add to gay hate.

Second Sidebar: I believe this pipe attack was done to humiliate the victim, not for sexual gratification. When the media withhold the victim’s name, they participate in the humiliation of the victim. They/you act like you believe the victim was humiliated. I don’t. I feel nothing but love and compassion for this victim.

The saddest thing about this story is that two teenaged thugs kicked a pipe up another teenager's ass because it was the worst thing they could think of to do. Now, the police and the media want to punish them in kind and the worst thing they can think of is pinning a brutal homosexual rape on them. In this, the police and the media are as primitive as the original hate mongers.

Tim Campbell