Frisco_Slug_Esq
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The blogosphere is all (sorry) atwitter over little Sally Draper's masturbation scene on Sunday night's "Mad Men." And for all the wrong reasons.
They think that 11-year-old actress Kiernan Shipka being made to open her legs à la Sharon Stone and place her fingers under her nightgown to -- as they say with such dignity on the show -- "play with herself" is art.
What? She's 11!
They found the scene enlightening -- as in, children should know that masturbation is not shameful. (And if they were allowed to stay up past their bedtime to watch this grownup show, I'm sure they'd be enlightened like crazy.)
One feminist blogger did find the scene offensive -- but because, I swear, it "demonizes female sexuality!"
A male writer for the news commentary Web site Slate found it funny: "Leave the Sally Draper masturbation scene for me to . . . touch upon." Yikes.
This is an 11-year-old child whose life has been compromised by being made to feign masturbation on national television! It's like starring in a training film for pedophiles.
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/mad_goes_too_far_DkAXBV5sVDCWSUGVNcpnSP#ixzz0yAuu5aoZ
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20014514-10391704.html
SCRANTON, Pa. – If his diary and witness accounts are to be believed, Nicholas Pinto endured months of physical, sexual and mental abuse in prison. Guards roughed him up, made him stand naked in a cold cell for hours at a time, and taunted him relentlessly. A fellow inmate raped him night after night, beat him when he resisted, and stole his possessions.
And no one, he claimed, did a thing about it.
"The overall treatment I have received from both the prison and (the prison's) medical providers (is) unconstitutional, insufficient, cruel, inhumane and shamefully unacceptable," Pinto wrote in April.
He feared for his life, yet the officials responsible for his safety appear to have ignored his pleas for help — nor did they heed a warning from the prison chaplain that Pinto was in grave danger.
An accused child pornographer, he was at the bottom of the prison hierarchy. So what came next was perhaps inevitable.
The 29-year-old former Connecticut man was heading back to his cell block from a recreation area when he was ambushed by an inmate with a history of violence who was supposed to be locked down — but wasn't. The inmate knocked him to the floor and stomped on his head at least 15 times "with all his might," according to a police report. Pinto's face was shattered, and he suffered brain injuries that left him comatose.
After the attack, his assailant had enough time to return to his cell and use a rag to wipe evidence from his black sneakers, police said.
The Aug. 8 assault raised troubling questions about prison justice and the culture of the scandal-plagued lockup where Pinto was supposed to be held in protective custody. Multiple investigations are being conducted by local authorities and the state Department of
Corrections to try to get to the bottom of how and why Pinto's attacker was allowed to get near him, and a federal civil rights lawsuit is being prepared.
Critics of Lackawanna County Prison in Scranton say the near-fatal assault is part of a pattern in which correctional officers target inmates they don't like....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100829/ap_on_re_us/us_prison_injustice
But, I found out in an earlier thread, we don't depict underage sex on screen, those actors/actresses were old enough, rape's not sex, yada, yada, yada, unless your name is Polanski, and then it's consensual...
Excusable even...
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