History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: supply. demand. 200 girls. demand. the disconnect. [View all]Flatulo
(5,005 posts)when there is a calamitous mass-rape incident on the other side of the world, I think I can explain it.
30,000 some-odd people are killed in car crashes every year in this country, but for the most part, they're just statistics, nameless and faceless.
But when a passenger jet goes down and 300+ lives are lost, everybody freaks out. Air travel is still, statistically, the very safest way to get about, and yet, we're all just so horrified when a plane crashes. This is because the death toll is all at once, and so terrible, that we're just in shock that this has happened. But we can picture 300 dead, and empathize. But 30,000? That's just a number.
It doesn't excuse the blind eye turned to the sex trade in our backyards, or even the tacit approval, but I think it does put it into perspective. These 200 children, we can picture their faces, eagerly going to school, learning, growing - all gone. But thousands of nameless, faceless victims - meh.