Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls

Why is only your current involvement in the board race related?

I'll bite.  From the original journal article in your other post:


The parts I bolded: I think age confounds this study in a significant way, in that younger women will parse a stranger's risk and their own personal responsibility differently than older women will.

The part I italicized: very troubling. And here I tread in treacherous waters: I think people are more likely to help and react decisively when they more closely identify with the victim. I believe we know that race creates a "like me-not like me" dichotomy in people's minds that slows or impedes thinking critically and rationally. I wonder how this would play out with the races reversed.


To this, I am annoyed. WHAT bystander education programs? No one talks about this, there doesn't seem to be a real drive to help women help each other navigate assault situations. Shit, we don't even treat victims well most of the time, let alone aspire to have a plan to help. I've helped and been helped in scary situations with potential attackers, but everyone was acting on instinct in the moment, not any training or education that was received.

Any time results of a study are prefaced with "as expected" I start doubting validity.

I noticed that too, but when you do studies, you are supposed to have a hypothesis and disprove or fail to disprove it. Their hypothesis was that they expected a race-based difference and the hypothesis was not disproven (you can't prove much in science, particularly social science, so the path is to disprove or not).

Thanks for suggesting checking your posting history, I just did. Eight of the last ten threads you started were race related.

I think if you look for something you are always going to find it.

of course you are.

I apologize for my snark. I spent the morning verbally sparring with a friend, all in good fun. I guess I had some residual cheekiness I needed to share. 

I only read the executive summary and the conclusion of the Georgetown Law/SPLC document, and the underlying question for me was do the bullet points of people's perceptions ring true? I'd say yes, they do. SPLC is talking about justice system outcomes, but I think there are far-reaching social repercussions of those perceptions that are huge.



Yes, agreed.

As a meta-comment, I don't get the snark in this thread at all. It's a distraction from the real issues presented, and I find it a little boring. Yes, I know, I am welcome to see myself out. Thanks, Olan, for trying to have a real conversation, I think you need more skin in the game if you want better discourse. Participate more.

Except that Annabella said "only", not mostly, so Olan's posting history does show that Annabella was wrong about that.