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Sorry Benito, I agree with rl. Men need to protect woman and not put them purposely in bad situations.

I had to set up a trade show booth today that took a bit of physical labor with several trips across the hall to the car for carts full f stuff. My co-worker is 6 months pregnant. She wanted to come help but I told her that I wouldn’t let her.

The Bible describes women as the weaker vessel. That’s not an insult, but a reality. We should treat women with respect and not expect them to be one of the guys.

I’m sure rlmorel would appreciate your apology.

My attitude towards this has nothing to do with patronization, it has to do with a recognition of unadulterated reality.

I don’t know anything about this woman. I don’t know if she was subject to that liberal arrogance that imbues members of the media with a sense of invincibility not far removed from the “Don’t you know who I am” mentality, or if she had the equally stupid useful idiot impression that she would not be harmed because the people on the other side of the camera somehow “knew” that she sympathized with whatever cause liberals come down on the same side of. I don’t know any of that.

I do not hold her responsible for the actions of others.

But in an area of the world where people, male or female, are PREDICTABLY abducted and horribly murdered, she should not have been where she was, and not far behind that is the sentiment that a westerner, particularly an American and doubly a woman, should not have been where she was.

A westerner or American male might well have been beaten to death by that crowd. But it is unlikely he would have been sodomized or otherwise sexually molested, though it isn’t outside the proclivities of these beasts to do even that.

But the violent sexual assault on this woman is no reason to make her a hero because she was a victim of it. She should have seen that kind of assault was highly predictable. If she deserves blame of any kind, if is for the lack of judgement on the part of her and her employer, and the hubris (as another poster apply put it) that the spectacle of the camera and her status as a western media personality was going to render her immune and somehow protect her.