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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
though prison-rape is obviously an awful thing, I just don't think that the fear of it is a great enough force to justify everyone's behaving the way they do.
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Ted Connover wrote
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing and remarked that he never saw anyone raped or knew of anyone raped in the prison. While I am certain that rapes do occur in prison, there now seems to be a perception (fueled by gangsta rap,
Oz, and women's prison movies like
Caged Heat) that everyone who goes to prison is sexually assaulted. I don't think that is correct, though I'm certain that I don't want the opportunity to have first-hand knowledge.
Having spent the past 25+ years in California, I hear most accents on television and in movies (instead of in person). I was surprised to hear a Linda Richman-like accent from a woman shopper when I worked at a department store one summer. I remember an interviewer at OCI had a strong accent that I couldn't place until about halfway through the interview, when I realized he sounded just like an uncle. I was distracted until I placed the accent.
On the soda/pop issue, it's soda if you're in California (maybe the far-Northern counties say "pop," the whole board knows I haven't been camping since the 80's, so I wouldn't know for sure.)
I liked all women with southern accents until I heard a woman with a deep, backwoods version. I still love the more cultured version. If all women in Charleston have that accent, then please send Bar Exam and law firm salary info to
jack_manfred@hotmail.com.
I also like most British/Scottish/Welsh/Irish accents for women. Cockney was even okay when Samantha Fox was speaking (yes, I know, but I was 14 when she was played on the radio, cut me some slack). In college there was a woman in my dorms who still had a British accent from her childhood. Fantastic. Years later I found she was the roommate of a friend of mine and learned that guys called the house just to hear her accent. She could have paid for college with a phone sex service, but she found the whole idea perverted.
If I could have any accent, I'd pick a Scottish one- nice rounded vowels and a lilt. Name me a woman Ewan MacGregor couldn't have if he wanted. (Granted he's good looking, but I suspect a blindfolded woman would be happy as well.)
