And the hits keep on coming
in the case of the young woman who was raped in Richmond...
Richmond High gang rape, lack of action from onlookers outrages community
The victim left the dance by herself about 9:30 p.m. to get a ride home, Greco said. She walked up 23rd Street toward Emeric, intending to phone her father for her ride.
But before she did, a classmate called to her from behind a cyclone fence separating a campus courtyard from the street. He hopped the fence, and together they returned to the shadowy, hidden spot, where a group of people were drinking and hanging out.
The victim drank a large amount of brandy quickly, police say, and was soon incapacitated. While semiconscious, she was raped. As many as seven people assaulted her as she lay on a bench, while others jeered, beat her, robbed her and took photos with their cell phones. Police say they don't know how many people watched during the course of the attack, but some reports have said as many 20.
At this point have few words other than incoherent rage. I do not understand that mind of a person who would do this to another human being and perhaps that is a good thing. Like a lot of people out there, a part of me is bloodthirsty upon reading this story and I fully understand people's calls for all manner of horrid punishments for the rapists and onlookers. I feel that but I am also capable of listening to the better part of myself that knows that violence only begets more violence and we cannot change anything by spilling more blood.
That said, the next person who attempts to tell me that a women who got drunk is a stupid victim for thinking that someone would not savagely attack her, beat her, rape her, film it and take pictures in front of an audience had better not be surprised when I call them out for being a rotten human being. No one deserves to be raped and beaten for the entertainment of other men (and possibly women. I don't care if that person is a sex worker who had 100 customers today, a crack addict, a welfare mom, a trans woman, a gay woman. No one deserves that and if you believe that then you need to get the fuck out of my journal right now because I will not associate with morally bankrupt people like you. If you can read this story and your only response is "Oh well she shouldn't have drunk anything or hung out with those guys" then you fail at humanity and I don't want to know you.
Everyone who reads this, especially if you claim to love any women,young or old, should be outraged because you know what? This could have been any one of us. Her only mistake was she trusted those people and wanted to be liked and who among us hasn't felt that way at some point in our lives?
I am seriously, seriously disturbed by this incident, especially when it is added to the mountain of ugliness and bullshit already out there about why women deserve to be abused and mistreated. This is why I'm a feminist and why I fight, just in case you had any doubts about that.
Richmond High gang rape, lack of action from onlookers outrages community
The victim left the dance by herself about 9:30 p.m. to get a ride home, Greco said. She walked up 23rd Street toward Emeric, intending to phone her father for her ride.
But before she did, a classmate called to her from behind a cyclone fence separating a campus courtyard from the street. He hopped the fence, and together they returned to the shadowy, hidden spot, where a group of people were drinking and hanging out.
The victim drank a large amount of brandy quickly, police say, and was soon incapacitated. While semiconscious, she was raped. As many as seven people assaulted her as she lay on a bench, while others jeered, beat her, robbed her and took photos with their cell phones. Police say they don't know how many people watched during the course of the attack, but some reports have said as many 20.
At this point have few words other than incoherent rage. I do not understand that mind of a person who would do this to another human being and perhaps that is a good thing. Like a lot of people out there, a part of me is bloodthirsty upon reading this story and I fully understand people's calls for all manner of horrid punishments for the rapists and onlookers. I feel that but I am also capable of listening to the better part of myself that knows that violence only begets more violence and we cannot change anything by spilling more blood.
That said, the next person who attempts to tell me that a women who got drunk is a stupid victim for thinking that someone would not savagely attack her, beat her, rape her, film it and take pictures in front of an audience had better not be surprised when I call them out for being a rotten human being. No one deserves to be raped and beaten for the entertainment of other men (and possibly women. I don't care if that person is a sex worker who had 100 customers today, a crack addict, a welfare mom, a trans woman, a gay woman. No one deserves that and if you believe that then you need to get the fuck out of my journal right now because I will not associate with morally bankrupt people like you. If you can read this story and your only response is "Oh well she shouldn't have drunk anything or hung out with those guys" then you fail at humanity and I don't want to know you.
Everyone who reads this, especially if you claim to love any women,young or old, should be outraged because you know what? This could have been any one of us. Her only mistake was she trusted those people and wanted to be liked and who among us hasn't felt that way at some point in our lives?
I am seriously, seriously disturbed by this incident, especially when it is added to the mountain of ugliness and bullshit already out there about why women deserve to be abused and mistreated. This is why I'm a feminist and why I fight, just in case you had any doubts about that.