"The rape -- and the troubling indifference by student witnesses -- are the product of long-simmering immorality, indulgence and insensitivity."
Dear friends,
The issue of violence against women continues with no mention of the pandemic level of both physical and mental health ills, in both our society and the world at large, that allow this form of violence, the world's most serious problem, to proliferate.
Meanwhile, with all of the talk about violence, it is not uncommon to hear a young girl say, "I like my man with a little thug in him." Is that mentality not a violent one? Of course, that type of nonsense comes from the so-called "hip-hop" music genre (which should not be confused with "rap").
About what is all of this really? For example, one person was quoted as saying, ""We live in a world where too many people try to do whatever they can get away with". But there's something much more pernicious going on here. It is: Because the "market" controls what and how people get whatever it is that they either need or want, then all economic/social relations are based upon power and greed, especially sexual. Greed, of course, is "short-sighted", in as much as greedy people are only concerned with "now" - not the future.
Moreover, there is no sense of "community" anywhere in this country. And so, "economic" violence can be seen when we have a government that spends most of its assets on "bailouts" for big banks and big companies, while millions of citizens go without opportinoties for work, housing, or health care.
In any case, on the link below, one of North America's premier journalists, Sandy Banks of the Los Angeles Times, helps us keep things in perspective, regarding how we analyze horrific incidents like gang rape.
Cheers!.
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-banks7-2009nov07,0,427613.column
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