13 y.o. girl sexually assaulted in Rock Creek Park trail in Kensington earlier this evening (March9)
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Anonymous
Yeah? Which men? All men? Some men? Most men? A few men? Which men? Be specific. Generalization is for the soft-minded. Are you soft-minded? |
Anonymous
No one is blaming the girl and who knows who that man was so blaming Hispanics migrating to the US is also wrong. However this tells us as parents we need to walk our kids and be vigilant. This tells us, which many of us knew, those trails are not safe to go on alone - adult or child. |
Anonymous
| women and girls disappearing from the public space as soon is it gets dark, not daring walking on a trail alone in broad daylight, not daring walking home from the train station and taking an uber instead (then not feeling safe in an Uber either).... that is NOT the answer. Removing women cannot be the answer, it will only lead to more victim blaming and prove the male attackers right. |
Anonymous
What does that changed when you are followed by a man on a trail? Are we supposed to guess if he's one of good ones or bad ones? This violence is perpetrated exclusively by MEN. The "not all men" shit is irrelevant, it is very much a male issue. Women don't go around attacking and raping male joggers. |
Anonymous
You sound like you may have some irrational hatred of “ALL” men. Do you have a therapist? |
Anonymous
Yet we are asking "all women" to change change their habits and not do things they would otherwise do just so they don't become another statistic. It's only fair "all men" make a small effort to see how they can stop contributing to that culture or actively try to change it, even they are good guys. The same goes with race. Just because I'm a decent white person it doesn't mean I should turn a blind eye to racism in my community. |
Anonymous
Seek. Therapy. STAT. |
Anonymous
1. Perhaps mommies and daddies should teach their children they can’t have everything they want. 2. Teach your children the difference between the words “no” and “maybe”. Don’t confuse them by saying “no” when you really meant “sure”! |
Anonymous
I don't hate men. I live with one and am the mother to one. But I've been insulted, attacked, groped, followed, objectified and discriminated against by men many times in my life starting in childhood, like a lot of women out there (most women probably). I have feared for my safety countless times and learned from young age that men are a potential danger to us. That is not what I want for generations to come. It's time we stop treating gender-based violence as some type of fatality. The fact that you think what I am saying is irrational just shows that you have no clue. |
Anonymous
| So many of these posters are so gross. The poor girl wasn’t even in the park. The posting clearly states she was on the park access route in the K-P neighborhood. There are baseball diamonds right there on the edge of the park, so she may have been coming home from sports practice. So even if this teen was doing everything right—simply walking home in her own neighborhood at dusk (not wandering around in a park at night) she still was attacked. |
Anonymous
Well, there were those two Hart WOMEN who murdered their six adopted kids by driving off a cliff in California. That happens more than you would think. Should we ban all women from having/adopting kids? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/horrifying-true-story-hart-family-100000604.html |
Anonymous
What a f'd up kind of argument. I'm talking about a problem that affects all women. Your unwillingness to acknowledge reality makes you part of the problem. |
Anonymous
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This reminds me of when there was a spate of rapes in Israel in the 1970s and politicians recommended women have a curfew to keep them safe.
And Golda Meir, the PM said: "Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.” |
Anonymous
You know that most children don’t seem to understand the word “no”? Why is that? They’ve learned from home that they don’t need to obey the word “no”, and they don’t have to respect (obey) their parents. Where do you think that leads to? Hint: They won’t respect you or your body either. |
Anonymous
I’m going to amplify this post. I live very close. The girl was not in the park. She was on the access path which is basically in the neighborhood. It was just getting dark. It was a beautiful day. My kids were actually still out playing at the time in happened. My camera caught the suspect walking down the road maybe 10 minutes before the attack which suggests he got to the access point and waited for an opportunity. I hope the family doesn’t read some of the posts above. |