Chris Cuomo viciously bullied Amanda Knox and called it journalism. [View all]

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But she bore the attacks with enormous grace and self-composure.

It’s not just the tabloids in Italy and England that call open season on women’s sex lives. In his CNN interview, Chris Cuomo was particularly nasty. Can you imagine him speaking this way to a man who had sex in Italy? Because Amanda dared to have a sex life, she must be an evil person – the kind who might murder a roommate she’d known for 3 weeks. (Though there wasn’t a single speck of forensic evidence putting Amanda in the murder room. With her witchly powers, she must have figured out some way to magically clean her invisible DNA and fingerprints while only leaving those of Rudy Guede.)


http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/08/1983541/cnn-anchor-bullies-amanda-knox/


“As Knox became more agitated and appeared to be on the verge of tears, Cuomo continued to insist that someone must have told the prosecution that Knox had a secret kinky sex life, even asserting, ‘you’re a freak!’ Finally, she burst out:

“‘They didn’t get it from me, and they didn’t get it from witnesses. It literally came from the prosecution. And this is what I’ve been up against this entire time. This fact that the prosecution was projecting onto what happened their own theories about young women and women who are…I was sexually active. I was not sexually deviant.’

“Cuomo’s attempt to use suggestions of sexual deviance to bully Knox follows in a long tradition of public entitlement to scrutinize and judge female sexuality. The recent string of highly publicized sexual assaults has exposed how the media weaves narratives in which “drunk party girls” get what they deserve. Meanwhile, comprehensive sex education is stifled in many conservative states lest children become too comfortable with their sexuality.”