it's little details that really do the work of making a different world or culture seem real WE ARE TWINS!
Wasn't there an IRL case not so long ago where a girl was raped at a party or prom and people likewise just stood there and didn't do shit? Yeah, she was gang raped by, like, a dozen guys on the dance floor. The guys were apparently the jocks who ruled the school. And her classmates stood around and watched and didn't get help.
There was a really famous case in the 1920s in New York where a young woman was assaulted and murdered in the middle of the street in a really nice residential neighborhood. Her brutal murder started just before dusk and ended around ten p.m. She was raped, beaten, and stabbed about fifty-seven times then left to bleed out in the middle of the road.
The families in the neighborhood heard her screaming and pleading for help, both during her assault and while she was dying alone on the tarmac. They did nothing to help her or intervene. They did not even call the police. The crime was reported the next day when a service person (paperboy, milkman, something like that) stumbled over the dead woman's body still lying in the middle of the street.
When interrogated by the prosecutor, the murdered woman's friends and neighbors admitted that they heard her, they knew what was happening, and they turned on and turned up their radios to drown her out. When they were asked why no one called the police, they stopped talking.
Eventually, it came out that the woman was peripherally related to one of the largest mob bosses in NY at that time. Although she was well-respected in the neighborhood, well-liked by her neighbors, and had never had anything to do with her family's criminal business, no one wanted to get involved with something that might be a private message between mob bosses.
The point of these two cases is this: people don't want to get involved or stand up and do the things that they know to be right when they perceive the wrong-doers to be prominent members of their "society" - the high school social hierarchy in the first example and the mob in the second. It's still chilling and awful and screwed up, though.
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WE ARE TWINS!
Wasn't there an IRL case not so long ago where a girl was raped at a party or prom and people likewise just stood there and didn't do shit?
Yeah, she was gang raped by, like, a dozen guys on the dance floor. The guys were apparently the jocks who ruled the school. And her classmates stood around and watched and didn't get help.
There was a really famous case in the 1920s in New York where a young woman was assaulted and murdered in the middle of the street in a really nice residential neighborhood. Her brutal murder started just before dusk and ended around ten p.m. She was raped, beaten, and stabbed about fifty-seven times then left to bleed out in the middle of the road.
The families in the neighborhood heard her screaming and pleading for help, both during her assault and while she was dying alone on the tarmac. They did nothing to help her or intervene. They did not even call the police. The crime was reported the next day when a service person (paperboy, milkman, something like that) stumbled over the dead woman's body still lying in the middle of the street.
When interrogated by the prosecutor, the murdered woman's friends and neighbors admitted that they heard her, they knew what was happening, and they turned on and turned up their radios to drown her out. When they were asked why no one called the police, they stopped talking.
Eventually, it came out that the woman was peripherally related to one of the largest mob bosses in NY at that time. Although she was well-respected in the neighborhood, well-liked by her neighbors, and had never had anything to do with her family's criminal business, no one wanted to get involved with something that might be a private message between mob bosses.
The point of these two cases is this: people don't want to get involved or stand up and do the things that they know to be right when they perceive the wrong-doers to be prominent members of their "society" - the high school social hierarchy in the first example and the mob in the second. It's still chilling and awful and screwed up, though.