Eat, Pray, Rape: White Girl Loots A Victim’s Horror
July 12, 2011 in Awful Things
“It’s called dissociation, and is a common and quite unsettling response to extreme trauma. She eventually curled into a ball and grew quiet, tears still pouring down her face. But I could sense only a disembodied version of myself hovering somewhere behind me and to my left, outside my window. ‘Who are those people?’ I could hear it asking. ‘What’s that awful thing going on inside that car?’”
These are the words of Mother Jones writer Mac McClelland, describing her experience riding in a car with a Haitian rape survivor when the car passed by the victim’s rapist, causing the victim to come unhinged.
But if Mac McClelland was indeed having an out-of-body experience, it wasn’t so out-of-body that she wasn’t able to liveblog it on Twitter, using the victim’s real name. Read the rest of this entry →
It does my black heart proud to bring you the latest edition of Conspiracy Corner. Here we shine the light of righteousness on those dark corners of the human psyche that are best left unexplored, but from which you are powerless to look away. It’s not unlike the proverbial car wreck, except here more people die – but never for the reasons they want you to think. Today we’ll discuss secret organizations, mind control programs, and some not-so-natural natural disasters.
