tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post1231673998503330918..comments2024-01-16T08:28:12.494-08:00Comments on I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE: This is not good for my Wa, but it needs to be saidaimaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-59012553797904378182013-10-18T14:20:51.651-07:002013-10-18T14:20:51.651-07:00Now, I'm not overlooking it and it doesn't...Now, I'm not overlooking it and it doesn't trump everything. In all of these cases there are some upstanders--in this case the police and most people outside the system who see the case fairly clearly--but in every case there are also bystanders and they are heavily influenced by cultural assumptions (in this case about sex and drinking and class) just as in related cases of male violence there are assumptions about justified and unjustified violence (fighting words, etc...). The AG may have stepped in because of the class and connections of the rapist--in fact I think there is no doubt that he did--but he could only do so using a language that his society understands which was a language of excusing the rape because of the girl's culpability. If she'd been merely murdered you wouldn't have seen that kind of language introduced. But its also the language which is adduced when important teens drink and drive and injure or kill someone. Every case can be distinguished from every other case in some way but anthropology and sociology are not the stories of individual cases: its always about the aggregate. . I'm lumping this case in with dozens of others which fit the same broad model, I'm just using it as one example. aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-37226885962530801402013-10-18T14:12:00.253-07:002013-10-18T14:12:00.253-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.com