http://abbyjean.disqus.com/enSun, 11 Oct 2009 13:31:21 -0000http://abbyjean.tumblr.com/post/207965629#comment-19853526<p>i understand the feeling. i'm sorry. :(</p>passingplacesSun, 11 Oct 2009 13:31:21 -0000http://abbyjean.tumblr.com/post/207965629#comment-19622008<p>The asshole who did this is small and cowardly but was emboldened by forces larger and more powerful than him or herself. A couple of weeks ago, M. Leblanc wrote about <a href="http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2009/09/trigger-warning.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2009/09/trigger-warning.html">a similarly disturbing and enraging experience in the subway in Chicago</a>. (The post is called "Trigger Warning" and might not be appropriate for survivors of sexual violence.) I have not directly experienced something like this recently, but just also learned about a similar incident Southwest Mississippi, an area especially notorious for racial murders and other violence against African Americans. It hits close to home for me, however, because I am doing historical research and journalism about the murders and violence in the area and know families of the victims.</p><p>I cannot tell if there is a sudden increase in these occurrences or if their effects and meanings are compounded by the right's reclaiming of some of its most overt racist rhetoric.</p>BenThu, 08 Oct 2009 21:26:53 -0000