Nov. 3rd, 2003 01:02 pm
Goretti girls get gory!
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muckefuckOh, one of the stories I read in the paper while keeping Nuphy company was this little gem. Now those sound like the kind of Catholic schoolgirls I went to school with! What makes the incident nigh-perfect is the dramatic irony implicit in the school's name.
Update: Just received an email from a friend who wanted me to know "from close by, it's not really a haw-haw news-of-the-weird type story." In my experience, that's usually the case; violence gets uglier with proximity and intimacy. Assault and battery is a crime, after all, and there's no justification for it in this instance, since there was no direct threat against the girls. Plus, the tone of the lead girl's father crowing about how his darling didn't need the police to get her revenge made me uneasy.
On the balance, I still think the idea of some guy getting his ass kicked by Catholic schoolgirls is haw-haw funny. What really makes it for me, however, is the name of the school. St. Maria Goretti was a victim of sexual assault. She knew her attacker and failed to inform anyone of his numerous advances; finally, he dragged her into the bedroom and, when she told him she'd rather die than submit, stabbed her to death. Immediately, she began saying she forgave him his crime. Thirty years later, after a miraculous vision, he repented. And that, boys and girls, is how to get canonised in this day and age. (She died in 1890.)
Clearly, the Goretti girls learned from her example--but I don't think it was the lesson the Church meant for them to take away.
Update: Just received an email from a friend who wanted me to know "from close by, it's not really a haw-haw news-of-the-weird type story." In my experience, that's usually the case; violence gets uglier with proximity and intimacy. Assault and battery is a crime, after all, and there's no justification for it in this instance, since there was no direct threat against the girls. Plus, the tone of the lead girl's father crowing about how his darling didn't need the police to get her revenge made me uneasy.
On the balance, I still think the idea of some guy getting his ass kicked by Catholic schoolgirls is haw-haw funny. What really makes it for me, however, is the name of the school. St. Maria Goretti was a victim of sexual assault. She knew her attacker and failed to inform anyone of his numerous advances; finally, he dragged her into the bedroom and, when she told him she'd rather die than submit, stabbed her to death. Immediately, she began saying she forgave him his crime. Thirty years later, after a miraculous vision, he repented. And that, boys and girls, is how to get canonised in this day and age. (She died in 1890.)
Clearly, the Goretti girls learned from her example--but I don't think it was the lesson the Church meant for them to take away.
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Da sie den Täter aber nicht überwältigten, um ihn der Justiz auszuliefern, sondern im weitesten Sinne foltern, sollten sie wegen Körperverletzung "ohne unmittelbare Notwehr" angeklagt werden. Aus den vermeintlichen Opfern wurden Täterinnen. Ich würde ihnen als Strafe einige Wochenenden Sozialdienst wünschen.
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This guy had been flashing groups of the girls for days for days. Surely they should have been able to, if not overpower him, chase him off and summon police. The story quoted someone as saying the flasher reached for a knife when attacked. I'm not sure I believe that -- flashers generally aren't violent.
This isn't exactly girrlpower.