SeattleCrime.com: Police Investigating Gay Bashing on Capitol Hill

This is not crime. Especially because they brought it on themselves by hitting on two ostensibly straight guys.

PancakeMouse: true, there's no crime here, but calling someone "hey cutie" is hardly grounds for the type of response they received. Don't blame the victims.

If a guy walking by two girls said "hey cutie" to the two girls walking by and the girls responding "fuck you f-----" would it have made this report?

In before the victim blaming.

Violence is NEVER okay.

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I think something that everyone agrees on here is that no one deserves to get bloodied and beat up for this...its wrong, illegal and stupid. That being said, I think that most everyone here can say they would not say "hey cutie" to someone unwarranted at 2:15 AM on a city street...its not an appropriate place to pick someone up (Dan might disagree with me), its not a safe thing to say to someone who you do not know esp. of the opp sex--it may be interpreted as threatening to many.

Its an insular zone we live in up here on the hill, we think everyone here is of like mind and a tolerant lifestyle--so not true..its certainly not St. Mark's Place, opening your mouth in a inappropriate way/time is not a smart thing to do--and being drunk is no excuse.

I hope the perps get what's coming to them..with this type of behavior I am sure its only a matter of time.

When you attack someone, that is a crime. How the criminal felt about the words is irrelevant: It's fucking Capitol Hill for fuck's sake. If I don't want to be offended by an idiot's comments, I probably shouldn't go to the Republican National Convention. When you come into MY community, you need to abide by MY community's standards. If you are a homophobe, racist, sexist, or generic asshole, you are not welcome. If you defend homophobic attacks and blame the victim, you are an asshole. If you insist on attacking people because you are insecure in your own sexuality, then you are a criminal. Of course, so long as Obama insists that lgbt people are not equal under the law, the federal government gives its approval to these crimes of violence.

This reminds me of a CHS post a while back in response to women being catcalled by construction workers on the hill. http://blog.capitolhillseattle.com/2009/09/09/constructions-

It's interesting to shift the genders on some of the comments and see how they read.

"Compliments" and solicitations from strangers on the street are often creepy and threatening, especially at night. It's time we stamp out the practice of catcalling in our culture. But to be clear, physical violence is not an appropriate response to a verbal assault. I suspect they wouldn't have attacked a woman that had said the same thing even if they were skeeved out by her "compliment". Sounds like bias to me.