Heroic Lesbians
A friend pointed me to this story entitled Heroic Lesbians; wherefore the silence, on a Luxembourg web site.
It describes how a married lesbian couple, got in their boat and rescued dozens of teenagers, who were swimming away from the guns of Anders Behring Breivik on the island of Utoya.
The article questions why the story has not been picked up by mainstream media.
My view is that it wasn’t because of their sexuality, as suggested in the story, but because the rescue was carried out by two women and that just doesn’t fit with those that run the average newspaper. One heroic woman is front page news, but two show up men in a bad light!
The Anonymous Widower 
No I think we’re way past those hangups. I think the terror of the actual event far eclipsed any interest in where and how the survivors were picked up. It’s such a complex event that all possible space were dedicated to the core news.
Comment by Hein du Plessis | August 15, 2011 |
There were dozens of boats out rescuing hundreds of people who swam from the island. Few, if any, of the rescuers have been the focus of media attention. Why should this couple be treated any differently?
Comment by Bruce McKibben | August 15, 2011 |