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Something I Said-Society's Neglect Of Rape Victims Cowardly Condones The Crime
Society's Neglect Of Raped Women
Dwight Hobbes
Something I Said
Insight News archives A 26-year old woman, beaten and raped in a St. Paul apartment building hallway, basically was raped again – by a social condition so stifling, she was ashamed, still weeks later, and therefore had not confided in her mother that the attack took place. Where she comes from, in Somalia, she's not a person who was victimized, but an object that has been ruined. Fact is, it was conditioning at abetted the young lady's rape and assault to begin with. While she fought like hell to keep Rage Ibrahim, 25, off her, it's right there on the videotape, that several folk poked their heads out the door and either watched the attack or just went back inside. It started as early as 1.20am. St. Paul Police were not summoned to the scene until nearly 90 minutes later. And that wasn't in response to a rape call, it was someone reporting drunken behavior in the hallway. Video footage shows five to 10 people, men and women, looking out their doors or starting to walk down the hallway before retreating as the assault occurred. The victim knocked on a door at one point, begging anyone inside to call the cops. A man at that apartment told police he did not open the door or look out, but that he dialed 911. Hogwash: those calls are all recorded and archived and there's no record of his call. He's ready to lie about it, so he knows damned good and well what he did --- rather, what he didn't do – was wrong. Another piece of the footage shows one person poking her nose out into the hall probably three times. She can be nosey enough to watch, but not nosey enough to pick up the damn phone. And, then, there's footage of someone walking up, watching what's going on, then turning and putting up the hood of his sweatshirt as he blithely went about his business. This clearly, is not something that can be blamed on any country's culture and seems to be a universal thing. For instance, we still remember the 1964 death of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese – a white, New York City woman who was stabbed to death near her home in the Kew Gardens section of Queens, New York. While people stood around and looked on. Indeed, The circumstances of her murder and the apathy of her neighbors were reported two weeks later and prompted investigation into the so-called psychological phenomenon now known as the bystander effect or "Genovese syndrome." The Jodie Foster film The Accused, about a rape that took place in a bar, is all the more appalling in that patrons actually clapped and cheered while Foster's character was spread-eagled on a pinball machine and gang-raped. What truly turns the stomach, though, is that it was based very closely on an incident that happened a Boston pool hall. The objectification of females remains the most mystifying proof of man's inhumanity to woman. There is an experimental device in the works – you can look it up on the Internet and see if I'm lying. A small one that nestles in a woman's body. And clamps onto the tip of anything inserted therein, clamps onto it with sharp, tiny barbs. Mr. Umma-Get-Some-Whether-You-Give-It-Or-Not would catch a real bad experience. And women would be less dependent on cowards to come to their aid.
About the Author
Twin Cities Daily Planet articles archives at
www.tcdailyplanet.net/profiles/dwight-hobbes. Dwight Hobbes has written for ESSENCE, Reader's Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, Mpls/St. Paul, MN Law & Politics, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune and Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (where he contributes the commentary column Something I Said). He's spoken his mind over National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Blog Talk Radio's UNOBSTRUCTED and KMOJ in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Was regularly featured as guest commentator on NewsNight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Spectator (Minneapolis Television Network). His monthly column "Hobbes In The House" in MN Spokesman Recorder speaks to domestic abuse and rape. His plays are Shelter - produced at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues - produced by Mixed Blood Theatre, University of Southern Illinois in Point of Revue, selected for Bedlam Theatre's 10-Minute Play Festival and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can't Always Sometimes Never Tell - produced by Theater Center Philadelphia, Long Island University, reading at The Kennedy Center and published in the anthology CENTER STAGE, In the Midst - produced by Long Island University, starring Samuel E. Wright. Hobbes spoke on the panel "Farewell To August Wilson" at the Guthrie Theater, broadcast on Conversations With Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ). Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single "Atlanta Children" (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Island/NYC area, including The Other End, Kenny's Castaways and My Fathers Place. He fronted the Boston blues band Midlight. In Minneapolis, Hobbes opened for David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at Terminal Bar, sat in with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley at Sol Testimony's Soul Jam, The New Congress at Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille's Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops in at the occasional open mic around town. www.myspace.com/dwighthobbesmusic
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