Post by: AngelOfThyNight on October 21, 2021, 09:53:12 AM
The story of a woman raped on a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transport Authority (SEPTA) train in Philadelphia while onlookers reportedly recorded video with their cellphones but did not intervene or call 911 is mind-bogglingly horrific. It suggests not only a total disregard for women's safety and wellbeing, but social disintegration; a disturbing impulse to filter terrible events through the lens of entertainment and shock value, and the disturbing ability to dehumanize suffering by mediating it through a screen.
Source: A woman is raped and onlookers record it: the story beyond the outrage (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/t7bJz0thdyQ/index.html)