I watched the videos again and I found myself actually impressed with their reactions.
Neither defaulted into victim consciousness. Usually you are shown the weeping would-be victim emotionally falling apart before the camera. We are supposed to empathize with her pain and hope she isn't too scarred by the trauma.
The next thing they usually show is us the angry father/brother male protective figure who is so consumed with rage that such a thing could happened to his family (as if they are somehow entitled to be immune from misfortune) that he puts on his vigilante gear and burns down half the neighborhood in search of the perpetrator.
These two are - as the the thread title described - irritated.
They aren't giving this idiot anymore power over their lives than is necessary to see that he doesn't attempt to hurt them again.
To me that is impressive.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Updated On: 7/31/10 at 03:09 PM