The puppy blender posted this link in his "a pack not a herd" category. I see this similarly as part of the "let's roll" philosophy. Catholic school girls have learned, as have airline passengers, that acting collectively they are more powerful than a traditional enemy.
That wasn't vigilantism. They didn't go home and plot their revenge with tar or feathers. They pursued an attacker—in the moment, as it happened. We SHOULD be doing that--if we paid any attention to our duties as citizens, that is. They were angry (as they had every right to be) when they caught him. Their adrenaline was rushing and they expended some of it in the right place.
Good.
These kinds of stories make me less cynical and worry less about our prospects of becoming a whiney, bemoaning class of uber-pacifists cowering in fear at the Barbarians at the gates.
Think of it as the manga backlash-- after so many years of the "schoolgirl fetish" as developed in Japan and exported to the US through comics, apparently the schoolgirls have HAD ENOUGH.
That's one way of looking at it Durbin. It may also be a sign of change now that people are going to use the "schoolgirl" thing as more of a fantasy for rough play instead!
The puppy blender posted this link in his "a pack not a herd" category. I see this similarly as part of the "let's roll" philosophy. Catholic school girls have learned, as have airline passengers, that acting collectively they are more powerful than a traditional enemy.
Not that I'm a big fan of vigilantism, but I have to say this story warmed the cockles of my heart.
That wasn't vigilantism. They didn't go home and plot their revenge with tar or feathers. They pursued an attacker—in the moment, as it happened. We SHOULD be doing that--if we paid any attention to our duties as citizens, that is. They were angry (as they had every right to be) when they caught him. Their adrenaline was rushing and they expended some of it in the right place.
Good.
These kinds of stories make me less cynical and worry less about our prospects of becoming a whiney, bemoaning class of uber-pacifists cowering in fear at the Barbarians at the gates.
I just love it.
I have to ask myself which is worse: to be run down by a mob of angry girls, or to be ignored by every female on the planet? We report, you decide.
Think of it as the manga backlash-- after so many years of the "schoolgirl fetish" as developed in Japan and exported to the US through comics, apparently the schoolgirls have HAD ENOUGH.
Heh. :)
-a former Catholic schoolgirl.
That's one way of looking at it Durbin. It may also be a sign of change now that people are going to use the "schoolgirl" thing as more of a fantasy for rough play instead!