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TheWeeDonkey · 02/08/2021 20:12
I saw both of these storys yesterday. So bloody sad. Its no age. The girl in Birmingham was from Eritrea, having worked with a woman who was a refugee from there it just really broke my heart that this girl fled such a scary regime only to meet such a terrible fate it what should have been a safe place.
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EmbarrassingAdmissions · 05/08/2021 20:52
@GNCQ
RIP to them, and to the other 4 females likely to have been killed by a man known to them by now ...
Yes.
I was at a talk by Joe Keohane about his book, The Power of Strangers (probably similar to any of the talks/interview currently on YouTube) and one of his arguments for women who are apprehensive of talking to strangers was that most women are killed by people they already know so have at it when talking to strangers.
I didn't find that comforting. I also couldn't believe that he hadn't taken into account:
– what counts as known (look at date rape - and the way it counts as someone you 'know' if you met them an hour previously or just remotely);
– the fact that women are already risk-managing and perhaps wariness of strangers is protective for us.
He was also inappropriately blithe about what actual harm harassment was beyond being a light irritation (I'm paraphrasing and my annoyance may make me a little unfair here).
I'm horrified by the deaths of these young women. (And, as for the little boy, I wish that I had a faith so that I could wish that he is now in a place where he knows nothing but all encompassing love.)
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