The NY Daily News recently posted the details about the alleged sexual assault of a women at a train station in Brooklyn. It is claimed that a shorter man fondled her before running away.
Sadly the NY Daily News didn't just report this story, they decided to lace it with heightism puns, because shorter people are hilarious!!
Some quotes
This little guy is going to be in big trouble when cops get their hands on him.
He's short geddit!! And he'll be in BIG trouble. Lolz!
A man described as being “extremely short in stature” grabbed an unsuspecting woman’s backside at a Brooklyn train station and then hightailed it out of there
He hightailed it. Because he's short. Geddit! LOOOOLLLLzZZ!
They also refer to the man as a
tiny creep
There is an element of mockery here which is really cruel. The women involved in this case has suffered a traumatic experience, no one reporting on it should mine it for silly jokes. The jokes may not be directed at her, but she is the one who suffers from them. Linking her suffering with a few cheap jokes cheapens her and implies that her assault is funny too.
I also wonder if this story would even have made the papers if it had not involved a shorter man and lacked, what in some people's eyes, is a comedy element. I'm told that assaults of this nature on public transport are, sadly, fairly common. I imagine in a such a big metropolis as New York they happen every day if not several times a day. Yet they don't seem to make the papers. Only this story with it's comedy shorter man has made the news.
I feel really sorry for this poor women.
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