This is a perfect example of Prison Planet spin versus actual story. Look at the difference in the top piece posted by Pissy, which is essentially a badly written editorial, and the factual wire story that Breukelen Advocaat posted.

This confirms for me what I already knew anyway--that Prison Planet's writers are completely whacked. Anyone who would attribute that sort of comment by Putin to the arrogance of world leaders and corruption of power is totally unaware of many men's general uninformed attitudes about rape and/or sexual assault. Prison Planet's Paul Joseph Watson is either the most detached blogger who ever touched a keyboard. Or else he had already decided to put a conspiratorial power spin on that story before he considered, even briefly, men's general attitudes about crimes and allegations of this sort.

Stand in a room sometime with a group of men. Ideally macho types. Longshoremen. Maybe football players. Teenaged boys. Blue collar types. White collar types. Or even world leaders. Then introduce the topic of rape and/or sexual assault of women, giving no crime details. Just introduce the topic itself. I guarantee you you can watch the joshing, laughing, snickering and joking that goes on between a number of those men afterwards for many minutes. I've personally witnessed this sort of exchange on four occasions. Once with high school students. Once with my son and some of his college pals, several of whom were frat types. Once with male spouses and partners at the women's shelter/crisis center where I've volunteered for many years. And once in a large room full of white collar male sales execs at a fortune 100 technology company. The more compassionate and tender-hearted guys won't join in the fun, generally, and are uncomfortable with that sort of joshing. But many more will laugh. At least until a woman makes her presence known or steps in and give them a quick (and blisteringly articulate) attitude adjustment.

Men, and plenty of women, too, make the mistake of thinking that rape or sexual assault is about sex, which is why they misguidedly laugh and joke amongst themselves. The subject is naughty and uneasy-making. But in truth while those crimes involve sexual acts, they're actually about violence, anger and domination against the most frequent, more physically vulnerable victims, who are women. Far too few people get this even now.

Putin's comments were not attributable to the corruption of power or arrogance of world leaders. They were directly attributable to the general misunderstanding by men about the true nature of sexual crimes against women. This is arrogance and misunderstanding that's found at every level of society, not just in the corridors of world power.

Only Prison Planet could misinterpret the facts of this story in such a power-paranoiac fashion.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . Putin Rape "Joke" Betrays Arrogance Of Power Putin Rape "Joke" Betrays Arrogance Of Power Elixir of power poisons world leaders to believe they are above moral law Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 20 2006 A comment that was not meant to be heard and has since been subject to an intense spin effort betrays the true arrogance of so-called "world leaders" and their apologist media mouthpieces. Vladimir Putin's adulation for Israeli President Moshe Katsav's alleged rape of ten women goes right to the root of the nature of Rating: 5