Television has missed a rare opportunity to use the intensities of this shocking rape to develop a public debate about the limits of what is forbidden and allowed. Not to try to educate us, but to explain
Coverage of the rape case in Eilat
Israel is a conservative country, so sexual issues do not get a prominent place in television broadcasts. They must be exceptional and sensational in order to open editions. The gang rape in Eilat earned such treatment thanks to the number, 30 who was thrown into the air and put him on the blacklist of Ayia Napa and Kibbutz Shomrat. Israel is a conservative country that is shocked by a girl's tears, but it does nothing to change the culture prevalent here.
While everyone is condemning, Giovanni Russo hints at sex with dozens of women in a commercial, Static and Ben-El sing "The boys show cubes and the girls are as hot as cookies", and Channel 13 thought yesterday that this was a great timing to rebroadcast an article by Amnon Levy about Ofra Chest, which was published six months ago and undermines her right to be responsible for her body. And less than a week has passed since the drama "Manaich" suffered a feminist attack for using a false complaint as part of the series' plot.
There is an enabling culture here, and when a catastrophe occurs, the studios say exactly the same thing. Shocked, pitied, worried, contained, outraged, frightened and looking for culprits. Chen Lieberman, for example, blamed porn on News 13, and was not the only one. Kinneret Barashi voted in "The Morning World" for "parental bankruptcy", while Sarah BK connected on Channel 20 between rape and loss of modesty, unloading and sacred matters. Others blamed the education system or the courts, on smartphones and the Internet, and here 11 analyzed Sharon Wexler and Uri Levy, the "human evil."
practice banal sexual offenses - that cost the public discourse only in exceptional cases - prevents us overcome clichés and discussions used to understand that the issue is not just black or white, but cumbersome and complex.
but nobody Just like no one thought what the message was conveyed to viewers yesterday when Ari Shavit sat on Ayala Hasson's panel, with four women talking to him about "rape culture" and "when you say no, you mean no." Shavit curled up in the corner, silent and nodding in favor, And so the discussion passed without mentioning his case at all.
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Sexual violence has many layers. In the vast majority of cases, the victim has an early acquaintance with the attacker, so extracting sentences from young women in Eilat such as "I am afraid to walk in dark alleys" misses the explanatory message. These are not just drunk boys and forceful men - both men and women are hurting and hurting, and sectoral division is an unnecessary generalization.
Thus television missed a rare opportunity to use the intensities of this shocking rape to develop a public debate about the limits of what is forbidden and allowed. Not to try to educate us, but to explain. Reality is confusing, and it must be a discussion of the limits of consent, not of dry laws. After all, the dry law never got wet, not even from a girl's tear.
Coverage of the rape of the girl in Eilat, all channels