[1687] in Depressing_Thoughts
rape
sethg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sethg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Nov 16 22:30:30 1990
Last night, AWS sponsored "One in Four," a video about MIT students who
have been raped. The show, and the discussion after it, were intense.
Depressingly intense.
A number of the women in the audience had been raped, and mid-way
through the discussion, some of them started talking about their
experience. I had my own experience to talk about--I was molested by
a babysitter when I was about seven years old--but I kept my mouth shut.
My experience wasn't as traumatic as theirs, I thought. I don't want to
impose my problems on everyone else, I thought. (I cried a lot when I
was in grammar school. One of the schoolyard bullies told a teacher
that I just did it to get attention.) The discussion has moved on to
other topics, I thought.
After the discussion was over, I mentioned my experience to Sasha Wood,
one of the producers of "One In Four." She said she would love to hear
more about it, and I said I would send her e-mail. And she went home to
pika, and I went home to my apartment. And I felt very alone.
P.S.: Today I came across a copy of Tuesday's _Globe._ An article on
page 17 says:
Ten months after Leonard Forte was found guilty of sexual assault on a
[12-year-old] minor, [Vermont] District Court Judge Theodore Mandeville
Jr. ordered a new trial. In his ruling, Mandeville, 62, wrote that the
prosecutor, Theresa St. Helaire, a deputy state's attorney, was so
emotionally involved in the case that she had prejudiced the jury.
What a country.
