Amanda Knox and Taylor Momsen: Sexual Abandon and Sexploitation

Amanda Knox and Taylor Momsen, Sexual Abandon and Sexploitation

For the record, I believe I’m just being more honest than most elders when I concede an appreciation of youthful beauty. An elderly uncle once admitted to the truism that when we stop looking, we’re dead. I also confess to appreciating and treasuring family, country, New York Yankee baseball, and pistachios.

That said, I still don’t know if Amanda Knox, the self-described “Foxy Knoxy” and reputed American “she-devil” who was convicted in Italy of murdering her roomie, British student Meredith Karcher, got a fair shake in her trial and if she merited her sentence of 26 years.

Far from looking like the sweet young thang of three years ago, Amanda is now a tad dazed and haggard and anything but serene but she still proclaims her innocence in that horrendous crime and contends, ”This is all an enormous mistake.”

For those not familiar with the sordid events of November 1st, 2007 in Perugia, Italy, see “Foxy Knoxy Re-Visited,” http://tiny.cc/en3tr

Of course, except for terrorists, most criminals say their convictions were all mistakes, or they were framed, or that the devil made them do it but, nevertheless, as in the case of pedophile teacher Debra Lafave who was sentenced to probation rather than to 30 years, also in 2007, when her American judge judged she was far too pretty to be confined to jail, it seems natural for people, especially males, to cut some slack for pretty females.

Even allowing that Lafave was spared prison for a crime of the flesh and Knox was convicted of murder, sexual assault, and obstruction of justice, there are certain similarities in the 2 cases, similarities predicated on young, female attractiveness, which in Debra’s instance bought her a free ride on probation, in Amanda’s instance resulted in a refusal by many to believe her guilt.

In her last court appearance, “Knox, 23, broke down several times as she addressed the court for almost twenty minutes in an emotional and quivering voice, as she stressed she had nothing to do with Meredith’s brutal murder. The American [note that British newspaper emphasis] also dismissed the prosecution’s view of her saying she was not the ‘dangerous, diabolical, jealous and uncaring’ person she had been described as at her original trial, telling the court: ‘That girl is not me.’ “

“Knox also expressed her sympathy towards Meredith’s heartbroken family and friends and said: “I am very sorry that Meredith is no longer here:” http://tiny.cc/zpclu

Whatever that girl was she and regardless of the final disposition in the matter of Foxy Knoxy, who was a wild 20 year old at the time of Karcher’s murder, her proven life of abandon and sexual promiscuity may have been contributing factors. In turn, her licentiousness, loosed when she became free of familial and national bonds in Perugia, may have had its roots in America’s teen role models and highly sexualized teen culture. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3031)