Jezebel
I was all set to write a really uplifting post on why men use war as an opportunity to rape women when I came across a story of an Australian guy who did not have any sort of backdrop of dehumanization or trauma or anything like that to blame; he's just fully, comprehensively, independently jawdroppingly evil. His name is Graeme Reeves. He was an OB-GYN. One of his patients wanted to have a small pre-cancerous lesion on her labia removed. As she slipped into unconsciousness from the anesthesia, he leaned in and whispered:
"I'm going to take your clitoris too."Huh? I know it's pointless to ask, but why???? Well, Graeme Reeves was not your garden variety Law & Order psychopath; he is a murderer who left dozens of women permanently injured. He removed their organs for no reason, he ignored the cancer growing inside a woman's cervix for no reason, and way back before any of this, in 1996 he withheld antibiotics from a dying mother against the pleas of nurses so that she eventually died for NO. REASON. How the fuck did this happen? Was none of this considered to be a crime?
Well, uh, no. Graeme Reeves does not appear to be in jail. And although he is clearly a sick sick sick sick sick sicko, hundreds of colleagues managed not to see or notice anything about this behavior or reputation or files or employment history that warranted a second look. What is that about? The "patriarchy" as one blogger ventured? Or a collective case of "I must have imagined that"? Can you even regain composure long enough to ask?
Look Away Now, For The Love Of God [The F Word]
Medical Rape Culture and collegiality [Hoyden About Town]
Who Watches The Doctors? [NineMSN]
Dr. Graeme Reeves [Australian Parliament Website]
Comments
DEAR AUSTRALIA:
FIX THIS.
OK, WTF? Too horrible.
LET'S CUT OFF HIS LITTLE WEINER AND BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM!!
OUTBACK JUSTICE, BITCHES.
OMFG, AUSTRALIA. You have broken the thin ice assholes.
barf.
Um, I think I'd rather read your other uplifting post.
I want to waterboard this person.
I'm a little scared to read those articles. Just when you think nothing about humanity can surprise you anymore, another crazy pops up who's even crazier than the last.
Holy Shit, Australia! Seriously, did no one report him? Or, when people reported him, did no one do anything? This is some fucked up shit. I need to do further research because I cannot wrap my mind around it based solely on this post...
After reading the post about the poor Aboriginal girl last week, and now this, I'm starting to wonder wtf is going on in Australia! Of course, if it was here, Bush would make this guy head of the FDA.
After she kicked Dr. Reeves in the head repeatedly, and as he was slipping into unconciousness, BAngieB leaned in whispered: "I'm going to take your penis and balls, too."
I'm crying. Literally. And I'm terrified.
What the FUCK is going on in Australia?
I wondered how the other post on rape could be considered uplifting...then I read this and suddenly I understood.
Words fail me about this guy.
I am too demoralized by the ethics of the government of our own country to be shocked by this.
I was able to be sickened by this though. go figure.
@chelotoyou: Jinx! I owe you a coke!
WTF is up with Australia? And why the fuck do people let their families go to this man? Why the hell aren't these nurses and victims screaming for justice from every rooftop? What the fuck is wrong with the bastard?
OK, I'm back, and wow, that IS majorly fucked up. How the hell did he get hired again after the first time? Do they not do background checks in Australia? I don't get it.
At this point, I think I would be cool with being a walking barbie doll and having my junk removed, cause it seriously ain't worth it.
@Trashtastic: If ever there would be a justification for vigilantism, this guy is it.
@BAngieB: I think maybe his prostate too. That would be good. Take that out with a spoon.
So they'll disbar him, or whatever the equivalent is for doctors, but they won't f-ing ARREST HIM? Seriously, how is this even possible?
@TruculentandUnreliable: I'd make that mofo's onion bloom....
Wait, he took out her clitoris? Just...cuz? He basically murdered and deformed these women just...cuz??
WTF, Australia, give me 30 hours and I'll come over there and deal with this problem. I'll murder and deform him just...cuz.
Maybe his colleagues were afraid of him and that's why they didn't report him? Ughhh, I just shivered reading this. I may need to switch back to a lady gyno, even if she does have to be booked six months in advance.
It's nice to see the medical community in Australia policing itself. But then, I suspect the same thing happens here in the United States.
What depresses me so much about this story is how many victims this guy has been able to get away with killing/mutilating before anyone spoke up about it.
And what's up with the nurses who watched him refuse antibiotics to that women and did nothing about it? What finally got this guy and his malpractices in the public eye?
Aaaaaaaaaaaand reason 8,394 that I lurrrrrve my female gyno. That is all.
@LuxLisbon: Check local universities. Most people going into the field these days are women, I go to a great office that's staffed by gyn residents, final-year students, and professors. Pretty much everyone is a woman.
i'm still not comprehending. all of this is on file. documented. known. can be used to prove his guilt. and he's still butchering women?
nope, sorry. still don't understand.
@TeenageGangDeb: Seriously! What were the other people in the OR doing at the time? I assume they went into the surgery thinking it was a lesion remove, not a clitorectomy, for fuck's sake - why in God's name didn't any of THEM speak up? I almost think it's even more sickening, more sickening than the actual crimes, that the people who were in a position to try to stop him DID NOTHING. They should be punished too.
Hopefully now that this story is out in the open, someone will accidentallyonpurpose murder this person. At the very least he won't hurt any more women.
I vote for genital removal and trial by ordeal for this sad, pathetic limp dick fucker.
@BAngieB: BAngieB is totes my new superhero.
@kellyhelene: Duly noted, that sounds like the kind of place I would like to go to. I have to believe that a woman would never ever do any of this to another woman.
WHAT?? This is the most horrifying thing I've ever read. No thanks, lunch. I didn't want you anyway.
@peliroja: Word. Female gynos 4EVA! The ONE male gyno I went to got his liscence revoked not long after I went to him, and he had all kinds of crazy lawsuits/criminal charges pending against him. When I read stories like this it just reminds me, "That could have been me."
Creeeeeepy!
So like, I never ever EVER want to go to Australia. Between their disregard of indigenous people and this sick fuck, DO NOT WANT.
Wow. There's really no punishment bad enough for him. If he even gets any punishment, that is.
Uh, and, yeah, I prefer female gynos.
@peliroja: @BiscuitDoughJones: I always say that going to a male gyno is like going to an eye doctor without eyes.
@badmutha: Ooooh, I just got a nasty, yet satisfying image.
Yes, female ob/gyns for sure. Which is not to say that there aren't some great male ob/gyns--it's just that because of shit like this, I don't trust many men near my personal area.
He should be skinned alive.
Ugh. That is all.
As a med student(not in OB/GYN though), this just makes me seethe with fury. I can almost see the steam coming out of my ears.
This is why I have a very nice, petite female Gyno.
i can't believe somebody over in australia hasn't yet taken down this sadist. y'know, money discretely changing hands, a late-night kidnapping to an abandoned warehouse where the good doctor finds himself... fill in the blanks.
@BAngieB: Ha! Excellent analogy.
@Ignorethesefourwords: I can't even get past my anger with this motherfucker to THINK about how this happened in the medical community in the first place and how he's getting away with it. Retch.
@BAngieB: Ok, to play devil's advocate I have a male gyno who is the best doctor I've ever been to EVER. Far better than any female doctor I've visited hands down. Sorry, it had to be said...they're not all crazy sociopaths.
Like most things, this reminds me of an episode of The Golden Girls. In this case, the one where Rose is fondled by her dentist who says, "wowie wow wow" just as she's going under.
This, of course, is 1000x worse.
@ForeverBlueGirl: To be fair, the good ole U.S. of A. has its own share of sick fucks and a disregard of its indigenous people as well. Perhaps we ought not call the kettle black.
@Alohamaid: I was so not saying that there is anything wrong with male gynos...it just doesn't make sense to me.
Ugh, I love how in the link to parliament, the dude is all, "These pe