I don’t want to go down the road of trigger warnings but the following is heavy, especially so early in the morning. I’ll put it under the fold so that those who want to avoid unpleasant stuff before breakfast can do so.
A transgender woman was found strung up on a pair of tights at a playground in a city in Russia. She had been assaulted and probably raped. The inhabitants of apartment buildings located next to the playground said they heard screams coming from it the evening before.
“If you heard the screams, why didn’t you do anything?” they were asked by the journalist who came to investigate.
“There’s always screaming on that playground,” the neighbors explained placidly. “Women always get raped there.”
The reason why “women always get raped there”, according to the neighbors, is that the electric bulb that is supposed to illuminate the playground burned out, leaving the place dark.
The inhabitants of the area have been waiting for the authorities to replace the light bulb for a couple years.
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It makes me think of Kitty Genovese or the so-called bystander effect rather than learned helplessness. In a nutshell, if people know there are other people witnessing the event, they are less likely to take any action. It is a social phenomenon, whereas learned helplessness is not. (Though I guess I’m just being pedantic…)
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The learned helplessness part refers to the light bulb that several hundred people aren’t managing to change as they wait for “authorities” to do that.
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