The Self-Fulfilled Prophecy





Recently, a local news article about an apartment maintenance superintendent's alleged sexual assault was posted and shared throughout the local community on Facebook.




The article itself is borderline fear mongering and overly detailed because it involves a man sexually assaulting boys.

The article itself isn't the only issue.

The amount of incredibly hate-filled and violent responses posted in the comment section are too many to count.

The comments below are unedited. Some comments include detailed descriptions of graphic violence, inhumane treatment, and torture.


***Trigger Warning***


- Headline should read " Local Child Predator Found Dead In Ditch". End of story.

- They need to take him out in the woods! Strip him, nail his nutsack to a stump & pour syrup around them& watch the ants come running!

- Somebody that does something like this there is no cure for them they are sick in the head might as well take him around back and shoot him between the eyes

- Yes I believe we should take him down to the court yard. Nail his nasty thing to a wooden porch. Bring everyone out too see then pour gasoline on the porch and hand him a knife.... then light the porch up. He wanted loose he would cut his own thing off...

- Why don't we just hang him?

- OMG he need to be put in prison so he can know what it feel like to be rape

- HANG HIM!!!!!

- He needs strung up in the middle of town and publicly humiliated then hung

- Crucify this sick POS, no hesitation

- Needs lead pumped in his guts

- Needs to be castrated

- I don't believe in the death penalty. It's too good for people who have commited these types of crimes. I hope he lives a very , very long life. In prison, with a bunch of men who love them some grade A quality man flesh. Make him to be the pathetic sick sob that he is, and they stretch his his a$$hole from Alabama to Russia and around again. Put some lemon and salt..rinse and repeat!!!! I hope he lives a long, miserable f!!!ing life! Death is too easy!

- What a sick ass human. I hope he gets castrated and life in prison as somebody's bitch

The person who started their comment with, "I don't believe in the death penalty.", has a profile photo prominently featuring their two Daughters.

Young children and teenagers use Facebook too, you know?

I understand anger as a response to the story, but I don't understand the double standard of openly speaking on how the alleged perpetrator should be punished, versus going completely silent on Robert Bentley and/or Roy Moore.




This is an example of how living openly gay is extremely difficult in The South. It's one of the main reasons I started this blog project.

The question is, do people living in Alabama understand how their sexually oppressive environment and rampant homophobia, foster acts of sexual violence?

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