# Fuck you, Tom Leykis, you insensitive scumbag! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tom-leykis-you-insensitive-scumbag/190418 "2003-07-23T17:19:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tom-leykis-you-insensitive-scumbag/190418/81 "2003-07-26T06:49:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*originally posted by \ ***1000Voices** > > Even if he survives this media battle, he may not survive the war, if those reports of his three suicide attempts within the past five years are true. I can’t verify that, but if I had the miserable fortune to be him, then suicide seems pleasant by comparison. Cite? A Google search turned up no reports of Leykis allegedly attempting suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tom-leykis-you-insensitive-scumbag/190418/82 "2003-07-26T12:54:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*Why is it Tom Leykis’ or anyone else’s fault that this woman is getting death threats? Did anyone who divulged her identity tell people to contact her and threaten her? > > My mother was mugged several years ago. She was badly injured and I don’t know to this day that she is fully psychologically recovered from that violation. Her name was in the paper in the police blotter. If my psychologically-traumatized mother had to be subjected to public naming for being a crime victim, where is the rational excuse for being pissed off that this woman’s name was divulged? > > And if the best answer you have to that question is “rape is different” then try again. \*\* The difference is that the guy who mugged your mom was not a celebrity. The focus was on her, as a victim; no one, except possibly his family and closest friends, was conditioned to believe in his innocence and accuse her of trying to bring him down. This story began with Bryant. “Kobe Bryant accused of rape by [somebody].” Not “Jane Doe raped by [somebody].” I understand, though I do not share, the inclination some have to think of Bryant as a victim in this case. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tom-leykis-you-insensitive-scumbag/190418/83 "2003-07-26T14:50:59Z")
> [@](#): > > OK, so she goes to his room because it’s her duty, and Kobe Bryant, a young man with everything going for him and a squeaky clean past, can’t control himself and rapes her thinking he’ll get away with this? I don’t buy it. ``` Lots of guys were perfectly certain they would get away with it, too, knowing that women seldom report, and that the conviction rate is minimal. ("Men on Rape", Tim Beneke.) It's not out of the realm of possibility that the guy just doesn't think he's a rapist. If he just believes his press, he's going to feel entitled to all sorts of things. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tom-leykis-you-insensitive-scumbag/190418/84 "2003-07-27T07:40:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nitroglycerine \* > \*\*Yes, I was wrong to say that. What I really should have said, was that I hope everyone who is ok with giving out the name of an alleged rape victim gets raped themselves. 'Specially Hannity. I hope HE gets gang ass raped AND bukake-ied by a bunch of communists. HA! > > Jon \*\* So…you’re a _fan_ of rape then? Or just violent rapists? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tom-leykis-you-insensitive-scumbag/190418.md?page=4)