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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on December 15, 2023, 11:37:06 AM

Title: If a woman can be raped in broad daylight on a train....
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 15, 2023, 11:37:06 AM
... there are tough questions for all of us

Good nuanced article by Gaby Hinsliff on what is a shocking case.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/15/raped-broad-daylight-train-crime-illusions
Title: Re: If a woman can be raped in broad daylight on a train....
Post by: jeremyp on December 15, 2023, 12:34:53 PM
... there are tough questions for all of us

Indeed. I have no idea how I would react if I was put into that situation. I'd like to think I would intervene, but I can't be sure I would.
Title: Re: If a woman can be raped in broad daylight on a train....
Post by: Nearly Sane on December 15, 2023, 12:46:38 PM
Indeed. I have no idea how I would react if I was put into that situation. I'd like to think I would intervene, but I can't be sure I would.
As a teenager I was haunted by the Kitty Genovese case https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

In the main this came from reading Harlan Ellison about it whose reaction was affected by the original article referred to in wiki.

 I think that it's dependent, as the Hinsliff article covers, on what anyone knows at the time and whether they are in a position to intervene in different manners. I've intervened in a couple of events, none as serious as this, but if I had a child with me at the time as the French witness did, I think that would definitepy have had an impact.