Kentucky woman says man beat her for looking too masculine — as people stood by and watched

[KamaAina]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/kentucky-woman-says-man-beat-her-for-looking-too-masculine-as-people-stood-by-and-watched/

A Paintsville, Kentucky woman said that she was attacked and brutally beaten on Thursday for looking too masculine.

In a post on her Facebook timeline, Brittany Nicole Wallace wrote, “Today I was assaulted. A man assaulted me because I look like a ‘dike’! He told me that he would ‘beat me like the man I want to be.’ He said, ‘people like me make him hate the world.'”...

Wallace said she tried to fight back, but her attacker was bigger and stronger. Bystanders, she said, never even lifted a finger to help.

“The sad part is that no one would come help me either. Several people stood around and watched this happen to me. Again, I truly believe that if I had a more feminine appearance someone would have helped,” she wrote.

"Too masculine"?!

[PatrickforO]

1. Ah the forces of Christian hatred, bigotry and ignorance.

At work again.

If we let these horrible fucks take over, we're looking at another burning time.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

14. As a word of advice, you might reconsider linkng Christian or any religion to bigotry and ignorance

Admittedly, there are judgmental people, who claim to be Christians; but the same thing can be said about many religions.

[truebrit71]

40. So you think this inbred toothless cousin-fucker was a hindu?

That kind of hatred here in 'Murrka is typically linked to "christians"...

[Initech]

33. I'm beginning to hate these people more every single day.

I want absolutely nothing to do with them or their bigotry.

[mythology]

2. If true, her attacker should go to jail and I wouldn't mind the onlookers being outed

[2naSalit]

3. I know a woman

whose brother-in-law murdered her sister for having a life saving hysterectomy, said she wasn't a woman anymore. Same area as this. That's the hillbilly mentality for ya.

[YOHABLO]

4. It's very difficult for anyone LGTB to live in the hinterlands of the U.S.

Just cesspools of ignorance.

[KamaAina]

5. We don't even know if she is LGBT!

She was beaten up for looking "too masculine"!

[bjo59]

7. Right. Do women need to dress in "drag" to be safe?

Dress up in high heels, form fitting clothes, and makeup so they don't get beat up? And then, when raped, get blamed for "asking for it"? Misogyny (and racism and any kind of bigotry) is always shape shifting and contradictory so that any behavior (or look) you adopt just proves "it's your own fault."

[RKP5637]

27. I often view America as a country of hinterlands. All states have them,

places that are really cesspools of hatred and ignorance, and they are damn proud of it. Parts of America are just damn creepy, ignorant, hateful, mean and hostile. I used to have to drive through some areas like this. Gas up and eat on either side. Just plain weird and dangerous areas to many and all types of people.

[BlueMTexpat]

6. This is assault with intent

to commit grievous bodily harm, if not worse. I hope that she has filed a criminal complaint against this thug, who should not be on the streets.

As for those who stood by and watched, they are as bad as her attacker, IMO. Shame on them.

[procon]

9. I don't understand the apathy and the utter lack of compassion.

To sit around like sheep and do nothing whilst a crime is being committed right is front of them and another human being is being injured, indicates a breakdown in our society. That man was a coward and a bully, he singled out a young woman knowing she likely would not fight back.

Bullies can be stopped, they have such low self esteem that it doesn't take much to send them slinking away. I've done it myself, and once someone breaks out of the herd to speak out, others will follow, and bullies can't withstand any public criticism.

[Egnever]

12. Really hard to judge unless you were there.

Who knows how this started or if people even knew she was female when the fight was happening.

Much more info needed. Maybe the bystanders had no idea it was a man fighting a woman and not two men fighting. Generally when two guys fight it is quite common for people to just stand by and do nothing.

I am not saying that is the case all I am saying is unless you were there it seems pretty over the top to claim a failure to get involved is an indication of the breakdown of our society.

[procon]

15. Actually we do know how it began from the victim's own lips.

"Today I was assaulted. A man assaulted me because I look like a ‘dike’! He told me that he would ‘beat me like the man I want to be.’ He said, ‘people like me make him hate the world.'”

Can't get much clearer than that.

[Egnever]

18. There are two sides to every story..

Maybe it went down exactly as she said I don't know and neither do you.

Clear as mud.

[procon]

19. Right, the attacker always has a plausible excuse

for why his victim is laying in a hospital bed, and her statements are inadmissible. Got it. You should probably just stop now.

[Egnever]

20. Right and no one ever fakes anything on the Internet

Your gullibility is awe inspiring. You put that much faith in everything you read on the Internet or just the bad man stories?

[procon]

31. Well, the "Bad man" you were defending has been arrested and jailed.

There's no excuse for violence, none whatsoever. If there's any justice to be had, he will be charged with a hate crime.

A Paintsville police spokesperson told ATTN: that the assailant had been arrested and jailed following the incident. Wallace, the spokesperson said, was taken to a nearby medical center."

http://www.attn.com/stories/8337/kentucky-woman-attacked-for-not-looking-feminine-enough


Are you done now?

[Egnever]

35. Has no bearing whatsoever on people helping

Or it being an indication of the decline of our society. Keep trying.

[procon]

36. You defended the attacker, yeah?

The jerk you were making excuses for is in jail, and you're doubling down on the victim blaming. That's just wrong, and it is a prime example of the decline of our society.

[Egnever]

37. Try again. I was questioning the idea you put forth

That people not jumping in to stop a fight is somehow indicative of a collapse of our society.

That fact that you choose to see that as defending one of the people involved in the fight is your hang up not mine.

The thread is there for all to read and no where in it did I defend either of the participants.

Not surprising at all that you are trying to pretend I said something different.

[procon]

38. Hogwash.

You're tapdancing all over the place, whenever you run out of steam you just jump to a new tack. Read through all the different directions you've tried in the course of this one topic. I just don't know how to process the single minded determination it takes to repeatedly defend a violent man who hates LGBT people so much that he's willing to risk being charged with a hate crime.

[TipTok]

39. It does have that Tumblr feel to it...

Guess we will see...

[csziggy]

22. Are you saying it would have been OK if a man attacked another man?

Battery is battery whether it is man on man, man on woman, woman on man, or woman on woman.

Standing around and letting one person attack another is reprehensible. If the bystanders didn't want to intervene themselves, they could have at least called 911.

[Egnever]

23. Do you have reading comprehension skills

Or do you just insert what you want to think into everything you read.

I think what I said is pretty clear.

[csziggy]

26. "when two guys fight it is quite common for people to just stand by"

Those are your words. Your implication is that that is OK since you said nothing to indicate that it is not.

Perhaps your writing skills are not as clear as you think.

[Egnever]

28. LOL

Do you deny it? Is it common or not?

Has nothing to do with assault being ok. It has to do with it being an indication of a break down of our society.

And if it is an indication of a decline in society then I would be willing to bet that the incidents of people just watching have been going down and continue to do so.

[kentuck]

8. A hate crime...

should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[procon]

32. Here you go:

"A Paintsville police spokesperson told ATTN: that the assailant had been arrested and jailed following the incident. Wallace, the spokesperson said, was taken to a nearby medical center."


http://www.attn.com/stories/8337/kentucky-woman-attacked-for-not-looking-feminine-enough

[mcar]

10. A lovely woman

Her assaulter should get full punishment for his crime. What in the world are we coming to?

[KamaAina]

11. Agreed.

[TipTok]

13. I'd be interested in a followup by the police...

... And some confirmation that events took place as she describes them.

[struggle4progress]

16. Rawstory links to a deleted Facebook page

[cwydro]

17. We've seen a few of these turn out to be fake.

I'd rather wait until I see a story or police report, not a post on facebook.

[Vinca]

21. There is only one thing the bigots understand besides hate and that is money.

Find the people involved, have them prosecuted and sue them civilly for everything they've got.

[Turin_C3PO]

24. Whatever motherfucking coward did this

needs to serve hard time. He better not get slapped on the wrist.

[Initech]

34. Yes they should get slapped with hate crime charges on top of the original chargr.

[bobGandolf]

25. So, so, sorry this happened to you!

Brittany, I am disgusted this type of behavior occurred, and you got injured. When you have republican presidential primary candidates stirring up hate....this is the horrible outcome. We need to stop this now. Do not vote for Trump, and the rest.

[RKP5637]

29. I've never been a gun fan, but I really understand why some people want them for protection for

all sorts of reasons. There are a lot of sick people in this country roaming around. And, with all of the negativity in the world, they take this as signs that it's OK to beat on others for whatever sick thought/justification comes into their twist F'ed up minds. Conservative estimates are about 25% of the US needs mental health counseling for one reason or another. I do not view the US as a well country. In fact, I really wonder where the US is headed.

[Yo_Mama]

30. This seems to be a road rage incident; the bystanders called police

I am pretty sure this is it:
http://wklw.com/news/road-rage-incident-leads-to-arrest-at-paintsville-walmart

http://www.attn.com/stories/8337/kentucky-woman-attacked-for-not-looking-feminine-enough

The guy flipped into a rage and followed her after some parking lot jockeying or something like that, an altercation ensued, and it got violent.

The man is in jail, obviously.

The woman in the photo is to be pitied, but I don't think the attack happened because of the way she looked as she implies.