Very disturbing image

[grinninfoole]

I heard a DJ on the radio this AM stumbling his way through a disavowal of most his normal schtick, i.e. sexual innuendo, because he'd seen a picture on the web of a group of men assaulting a woman during Mardi Gras in Seattle this year. I checked out the picture, and it is quite brutal. I do NOT recommend that you look at it if you think it might bother you in any way. But, I bring this up here because I don't think people talk about the way our culture has enshrined and sexualized violence by men against women. And because the picture won a national journalism award, despite heavy debate about whether it was ethical to give an award to such a picture and especially whether it was ethical to print it. And, finally, because the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which submitted the photo, apparently didn't publish it all.

Here is the link to the photo: http://www.nppa.org/bestofpj/ethics.htm

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What is the story?

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Proof? Hell, did you see the guy videotaping the whole thing?

I don't know what happened to the woman. The stories I found on the Post-Intelligencer's website ( http://www.seattle-pi.com ) didn't mention this particular incident, and this photo isn't one of the fifteen images of Mardi Gras violence on their site--some of which are equally graphic and disturbing, but which only depict men attacking other men.