Stupid News Headline

I’m surprised they didn’t fit an ‘allegedly’ in there to minimize the offence that little bit more.

This kind of framing is going to become more and more common from now on. Any instance where a victim fights back will be turned around to make the perp seem not so bad.

This is typical of the newspapers owned by a shadowy cabal

My question, had it been my daughter: why didn’t you have the sharp scissors?

According to the Teen Vogue website, the young woman was charged with aggravated assault.

Is this sexual “assault” or sexual “harassment” in the civilian side? I’m not asking to be a dick, I’m asking because in my career field this is specifically sexual harassment of no contact was made with the breast, buttocks, genitalia, inner thigh, or anus.

MAGA will look at this and automatically come to the conclusion that stabbing is worse than lifting someones dress. Therefore the guy that got stabbed is the victim in their eyes.

All the people saying it was worded fine and things similar probably think Russians and child “touchers” are just misrepresented as well.

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/teen-stabbed-with-scissors-after-pulling-students-dress-up-at-memphis-school-police-say/article_797268a9-3bdc-5f17-9425-52b694456528.html

The article says they were both charged. That’s bullshit. She was defending herself.

Sounds like someone didn’t like the Finding Out stage of their Fucking Around. Hope those scissors were dull and covered in cayenne pepper.

I hope 2025 is The Year of Consequences. It’s time to stop putting up with people’s bullshit.

I mean they’re just laying out the events that occurred, it states the sexual harassment that he did then states that he was stabbed with scissors for it.

I guess they could’ve put in brackets (this is sexual assault) after the description of the sexual assault they included in the headline, but it would be redundant as they’ve already described what happened, and they’d also be legally required to put “alleged” there since he hasn’t yet been convicted and then we’d be using that as evidence of sexism and victim blaming in media, even though this is established law that that media has to do in all cases

(unless you guys want the sexual assaulter to get a pay day by suing news outlets reporting on it and becoming rich). Same logic here as all the guys who cry every time a woman teacher “sleeps with 15 year old student”
“Imagine the headlines if this was a male teacher, they would be calling it rape, the media is so biased in favour of women” – this is what the top commenters sound like

TLDR: if the media did what you guys want it to do that would result in rapists getting easy lawsuits and becoming wealthy. If you attack media that reports on these events using neutral language which they are legally required to do, then the only result of this will be sexual assaulters not getting reported on and getting away without social consequences for their actions

Also hot take: but I witnessed dozen of boys getting “pantsed” (having their pants and often underwear hauled down when they aren’t expecting it) when I was in school by both boys and girls. The people doing these actions were shitty kids who’ve hopefully learned better by now, but I’m not sure it would’ve been a good thing if those dozen or so boys and girls were stabbed or put on a list for the rest of their lives.

I think that part of the reason some men don’t take stuff like this seriously and become shitty red pillers is that stuff like this happens to boys on a daily basis and isn’t taken seriously or even resulting in the abuser being suspended, let alone facing criminal charges or media attention, so then they see this and they think it’s a massive overreaction instead of realizing that it isn’t, and it’s just an underreaction when it happens to boys/them.

Not super relevant to this specific thread but I think it’s an issue that should be addressed. Boys being sexually assaulted is incredibly common and not taken seriously whatsoever which results in these people growing up and not taking it seriously when it happens to women. The left should be supporting these victims instead of laughing at them or calling them redpill liars and making them feel like they will only be accepted by the right. Not only is it the morally correct thing to do, but it would result in better election outcomes, and it would result in men having healthier views on sexual assault.

When you do polling on men who’ve been victims of sexual assault from women, you often get insanely low numbers like “3% of men have been sexually assaulted by a woman throughout their lifetimes”. But that’s because it’s so normalized that they don’t view these things a sexual assault for themselves or for others. When you use neutral language to survey them without labelling it as sexual assault, you get a more accurate representation and results that look closer to this:

[A sample of 1124 heterosexual British men completed an online survey consisting of a modified CDC National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, and measures of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and conformity to masculine norms. In the present sample, 71% of men experienced some form of sexual victimization by a woman at least once during their lifetime](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02717-0)

When we look at why so many older men are shitty and don’t take incidents like this seriously, think about it from the lens that it’s something that has happened to roughly 3 quarters of them by women, and they were taught that it’s normal, and they’re still labelled pieces of shit/liars/redpillers when they bring it up to this day, or told that it’s only other men doing it to men. (All of this is not to say women don’t have it worse when it comes to sexual assault/harassment, they certainly do, there’s just a major disparity in how these instances are treated by family/friends, the media, and society in general)

Still managed to not use pronouns

The scissors one is more descriptive.

They are rightful both being charged

Chasing him down with scissors isn’t self defense you absolute ignorant fools. I don’t condone what the boy did but words matter. 

To be fair, the headline is much more objective and less sensationalist than the answer.

Proportionality is a thing, that’s why it’s a headline. If she had just decked him and given him a black eye, there wouldn’t be an article
(Bring on the downvotes)

Thats not assault and self defense is only a valid repsonse if it happens while the attack is happening you can’t just go back to your stuff and then stab a person with a scissors thats not self defense anymore but of course americans love violence so they defend this.

The original headline is more descriptive of what went on though. I actually think the original headline is better.