thursday, april 4th
it isn't a wonder
disclaimer: this picture is incredibly upsetting.
my apologies to those of you who saw this picture without this warning. it isn't my intention to upset or offend anyone.
this photograph won the 2001 nppa best of photojournalism contest. the photograph shows a woman being attacked by a huge group of people in seattle.
that moment in time has been frozen, so the crowd becomes individual faces, laughing. and that is what upsets me most about the picture. the happiness of the faces surrounding the girl being attacked.
i want to shake them all and make them stop and i can't. but i guess i can wave the picture in the face of anyone who dares to ask me why i'ma feminist.
and people wonder why i feel sick being a girl, being me. they do. and it's no wonder, it really isn't.
the photographer, mike urban of the seattle post-intelligencer, who took the picture i posted in yesterday's diaryland is quoted as saying this:
"i saw this woman who in typical mardi gras fashion was asked to raise her top. when she refused, they [the men around her] began to reach at her and tear her clothes… it happened so fast that the sea of people cleared and the woman just disappeared. there was no time for me to do anything."
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