Richmond High
Oct. 30th, 2009 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drewkitty"Richmond High gang rape, lack of action from onlookers outrages community"
http://www.contracostatimes.com/richmond-school-homecoming-rape
I wrote a story for a college fiction class which described pretty much that. The venue was a party in a private home in a rich area, not out in public. The main character's dilemma was whether or not to call. The class instructor frostily informed me that such things did not happen and graded the essay a C-.
Idiot fool.
I am also thinking of the similar gang rape involving the DeAnza College baseball team last year in which no action is being taken. The victim in this case was rescued by female soccer players who interrupted the rape.
The sociologist in me is neither surprised nor dismayed. Thugs will gang-rape unless they are prevented or deterred. Once the crime has commenced, they will not stop until they are made to stop.
So the question for ordinary people is whether or not to make that call.
My quite possibly uncomfortable question for you is this:
Would you have?
http://www.contracostatimes.com/richmond-school-homecoming-rape
I wrote a story for a college fiction class which described pretty much that. The venue was a party in a private home in a rich area, not out in public. The main character's dilemma was whether or not to call. The class instructor frostily informed me that such things did not happen and graded the essay a C-.
Idiot fool.
I am also thinking of the similar gang rape involving the DeAnza College baseball team last year in which no action is being taken. The victim in this case was rescued by female soccer players who interrupted the rape.
The sociologist in me is neither surprised nor dismayed. Thugs will gang-rape unless they are prevented or deterred. Once the crime has commenced, they will not stop until they are made to stop.
So the question for ordinary people is whether or not to make that call.
My quite possibly uncomfortable question for you is this:
Would you have?
