Dear Crotch Bomber:

[captainsblog]

Next time, just put my brain on the plane and set it on fire, because I guarantee you that after this story, it most certainly will explode.

Our top story this morning, from the local paper right here in beautiful, blue-state Buffalo New York:

A Buffalo woman was stabbed in her right eye after she and two friends were attacked by two gay-bashing women outside a downtown club following a New Year's Eve celebration.

[The victim] said she and two friends were minding their own business as they walked out of Roxy's, a lesbian nightclub, at about 2 a.m. Friday to head home when two women, in the company of four men, shouted gay slurs at them and then attacked them. [She] does not have vision in her eye, and it is not known whether she will regain it. She has seven stitches in her right eyelid and eye, along with several stitches in her right cheek and her left arm.

That saddens me. Sickens, even. Still, want to try to hit the trifecta and add mind-exploding anger? Let's read the first two comments to be posted on the article, shall we?

I have met [the now half-blind victim] several times and I cant help but think that she may instigated the incident. The fact she was stabbed and may have permanent vision problems is regrettable. But her smart a$$ nature and constant arrogant attitude surely played a role. If you yell anti-gay slurs at her she isnt the type to sit there and take it, there is no doubt in my mind she yelled back and poured gas on the fire.

Yeah, "she asked for it" always comforts rape victims, too. But wait, there's more:

First, let's hope these two women are caught and punished for their acts, you don't go around punching people. However one of the ladies asked "how somebody brings themselves to attack another person." Maybe it's the constant gay demonstrations, claiming gay rights, making a mockery of marriage etc. that led these people to hostility. Obviously these ladies had some built up anger and took the wrong way of dealing with it.

Silly me. I thought "Medieval Times" was a restaurant outside Toronto. I had no idea I got stuck in a TARDIS overnight and was transplanted back to them.

I'm going back to bed and hoping this is another of my really weird nightmares.

Comments

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

*depressed sigh* There are days when I wonder if humanity deserves to survive. This would be one of those days. (This also makes me even more determined to get a rainbow flag tattooed on my arm, if only to show that not all straight people are like this).

[whyaduck.livejournal.com]

That's the wonder/horror of newspaper web sites. It used to take time to write a letter to the editor, and of those only certain few ones were published. Now with on-line commenting, (almost) anything goes.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Actually, it may be an evil, underhanded but very clever way to get intelligent people to pay real money to subscribe to the print edition:

No comments there.

[platypus]

Something about news story comment threads brings out the absolute dregs of humanity.

[glenmarshall.livejournal.com]

THAT deserves letters to the editor from all over the country. What paper was this in?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

The only one we've got- here's (http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/913251.html)the story link, complete with three hours' worth of fine new "push her homosexual agenda" comments.

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

never fails to amaze me.