MeAndroo
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- 29 Jul 2004
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When someone is getting sexually harrased I am pretty sure someone will hear that, if they have headphones on or if they are sleeping.
I am sure that not everyone have heard it, but some must have heard something wasn't right.
According to the story, all that would have been audible is clothes rustling and a girl crying. Using what I hear alone, I'm not sure I would have gone out of my way to approach a strange couple with the female in tears.
I can't help but focus my attention on the paralyzing fear this woman must have been under to a) not scream initially, b) not scream when the train made a stop and personnel that obviously would not have been wearing headphones might have heard, and c) not try to make a break for it at a train stop. The threat of stalking/murder is clearly scary and she may not have been thinking clearly, but it seems that flight would be an almost automatic response once the train stopped. I'm obviously unable to truly empathize as an American male who's never been in a situation where my life was truly threatened, but it's tough to understand the thought process of the victim much more than that of the rapist, particularly with concern to her faith in the system and society around her to give her the aid she would need had she asked for it.