This is how we do it in the OC, bitch.
Are you fucking kidding me? Are. You fucking. KIDDING ME???
I have to believe that there is more to this story. More like, say, a fucking TAPE RECORDING OF THE TRAFFIC STOP wherein the jury CLEARLY HEARD Lucy GIVE HER PERMISSION for David Park to use her like a gym sock on the floor of a fourteen-year old boy’s bedroom in exchange for avoiding arrest. Because I cannot, for the sake of my faith in humanity, believe that the “she’s a stripper, so she was asking for it” is considered a valid argument anywhere in this country, let alone anywhere in this century.
I’m veering wildly here between bafflement and rage. I thought it was well-fucking-established by this point that, regardless of a woman’s profession, marital status, or sexual history-hell, even her sexual history with the other party-it is never, never okay to use physical force or intimidation to initiate sexual contact. There’s a word for that-it’s called “assault.” It’s PRETTY GODDAMN CUT-AND-DRIED. At least, unless she lives in Orange County and happens to work in the sex industry, in which case it’s called “bitch had it coming,” also fondly referred to as “the Jack the Ripper precedent.” What the fuck. By that logic, doctors should be required to dispense free medical advice on demand, which, given the state of the healthcare industry, they’re clearly not. And I’m not even going to touch on the disturbing pattern of behavior that preceded the incident in question, except to say that that’s some scary shit right there, and I hope to God that without law enforcement resources at his disposal, Park doesn’t have the opportunity to escalate. At least the police department and the district attorney’s office had the ethical and legal wherewithal to react appropriately (by stripping Park of his badge and prosecuting him, respectively)-I don’t even want to speculate on what rock they found the morally bankrupt jurors under. As for the odious defense attorney, well, check it out. Not that this fellow doesn’t have the right to feel protective of his daughter, but hello double standard. Gosh, doesn’t he understand that by being photographed in shorts, his teenage daughter was practically begging to be ogled by creepy old men on the Internet? Yeah. Shudder.
Just…fuck you, Orange County. I’m sure the vast majority of your police officers are upstanding civil servants, but I can’t help hoping that you get exactly the kind of protection under the law that you deserve for letting David Park get off, in both senses of the word. And then I hope you fall into the ocean; I sure won’t miss you.
And since I’m already on a tear, I acknowledge that parenting is not exactly a paint-by-numbers proposition, but I’m-a tell you right now, if I’m David Park’s “gray-haired mother,” I’m not weeping with “relief.” I’m weeping with the weight of the realization that I have completely and utterly failed to raise a son who is capable of treating women like anything more than glorified blow-up dolls. That, to my mind, is a far more worthwhile use of saline.
I have to believe that there is more to this story. More like, say, a fucking TAPE RECORDING OF THE TRAFFIC STOP wherein the jury CLEARLY HEARD Lucy GIVE HER PERMISSION for David Park to use her like a gym sock on the floor of a fourteen-year old boy’s bedroom in exchange for avoiding arrest. Because I cannot, for the sake of my faith in humanity, believe that the “she’s a stripper, so she was asking for it” is considered a valid argument anywhere in this country, let alone anywhere in this century.
I’m veering wildly here between bafflement and rage. I thought it was well-fucking-established by this point that, regardless of a woman’s profession, marital status, or sexual history-hell, even her sexual history with the other party-it is never, never okay to use physical force or intimidation to initiate sexual contact. There’s a word for that-it’s called “assault.” It’s PRETTY GODDAMN CUT-AND-DRIED. At least, unless she lives in Orange County and happens to work in the sex industry, in which case it’s called “bitch had it coming,” also fondly referred to as “the Jack the Ripper precedent.” What the fuck. By that logic, doctors should be required to dispense free medical advice on demand, which, given the state of the healthcare industry, they’re clearly not. And I’m not even going to touch on the disturbing pattern of behavior that preceded the incident in question, except to say that that’s some scary shit right there, and I hope to God that without law enforcement resources at his disposal, Park doesn’t have the opportunity to escalate. At least the police department and the district attorney’s office had the ethical and legal wherewithal to react appropriately (by stripping Park of his badge and prosecuting him, respectively)-I don’t even want to speculate on what rock they found the morally bankrupt jurors under. As for the odious defense attorney, well, check it out. Not that this fellow doesn’t have the right to feel protective of his daughter, but hello double standard. Gosh, doesn’t he understand that by being photographed in shorts, his teenage daughter was practically begging to be ogled by creepy old men on the Internet? Yeah. Shudder.
Just…fuck you, Orange County. I’m sure the vast majority of your police officers are upstanding civil servants, but I can’t help hoping that you get exactly the kind of protection under the law that you deserve for letting David Park get off, in both senses of the word. And then I hope you fall into the ocean; I sure won’t miss you.
And since I’m already on a tear, I acknowledge that parenting is not exactly a paint-by-numbers proposition, but I’m-a tell you right now, if I’m David Park’s “gray-haired mother,” I’m not weeping with “relief.” I’m weeping with the weight of the realization that I have completely and utterly failed to raise a son who is capable of treating women like anything more than glorified blow-up dolls. That, to my mind, is a far more worthwhile use of saline.