In Australia, an 18 year old dancer, in a very seedy part of town, at 4 in the morning, was pulled from a stage where she’d been dancing and assaulted by a man in his early 20s:Police say the man approached the 18-year-old woman, Tamieka, about 4am on Sunday at the Area 61 nightclub in Fitzroy Street while she was dancing on a podium. Detective Senior Constable Scott Gladman says the man tried to talk to Tamieka, then pulled her from the podium and attacked her.
No one is saying for one moment that this attack was anything less than appalling and the young man should feel the full force of the law and yet …
Why would he have done it this way? Why not, say, sexually assault her? Why the type of attack a man usually reserves for another man? Did he know her? Was he a suitor or ex boyfriend? Had she broken up his next relationship? The glib headline ‘Coward attacks woman’ and the printing of only her side: ‘I did absolutely nothing wrong,’ doesn’t ring true to me.
Seems to me, a man physically assaulting a woman, with no sexual overtones, is rare and is usually associated with prior history or else something she said which snapped the self-control.
I would imagine too that she hurt his pride somehow in a huge way for him to do something like that. No excuse still, but would make sense. Your house of Lord`s looks very beautiful inside. Most likey,as here, the things that go on inside aren`t always so beautiful though LOL
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Very strange. Perhaps he's a religious nutter if there is no connection between him and the woman?
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like he is a vicious bully, women certainly need to be protected from the likes of him.
ReplyDeleteI don't know...a scantily clad (if at all) dancer isn't exactly sending a message of respect to the crowd.
ReplyDeleteWhen women present themselves as sexual objects, it can overlap with the media message some men see as the truth, and then the few crazy guys out there think they can do what ever they want, since they are just objects and not people.
However, James makes a good point about "only hearing her side of the story." There very well may be more to it...
Interesting post, really.
I'm sure she did say something that made his self-control snap (something did, clearly), but what of it? The law's there to protect us, including scantily-clad dancers and the chaps who go to watch them, from folks who can't control themselves, maybe after having had too much to drink, and start fights.
ReplyDeleteDoubtless it'll all come out in court, but I don't see 'She upset me' as much of a mitigation -- obviously she upset him, or he wouldn't have hit her and they wouldn't be in court.