Sexual abuse poster on the street

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Sexual abuse poster on the street

Postby Et in Arcadia ego » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:12 pm

This isn't quite what I'd consider RA, but it's pretty damn close. At my work, which is located in my city's downtown area, there is a multitude of homeless people that accumulate in the immediate vicinity of my workplace. Among them is a homeless woman, who despite my wife's constant protests, insists on remaining where she is every day and night camped out on a city bench on the corner of an intersection. She is always barefoot, and is there 20 hours a day doing nothing but trying to bum cigarettes from every person that walks by her. She is always barefoot.<br><br>And she's several months pregnant.<br><br>My wife tried to get her to go to a shelter, but she's refused, and given piss-poor excuses for not doing so despite the fact that we have a half-decent program for the homeless here.<br><br>Anyways, yesterday she decided to place a hand-made poster up next to the ATM a few feet away from where she sits. She showed it to my wife, and my wife immediately brought it to my attention. The poster outlines the dangers to women engaged in social drinking and how easily they can be exploited by date rape. What she wrote is pretty(and very unfortunately) pedestrian, stuff just about everyone knows, but she ccompanied her text with a drawing that really put the hook in both of us, and I felt I should share it here as a consequence. When you see it for yourself, you'll understand why I uploaded it and made this thread.<br><br>Here it is:<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=main/8/22416031698.jpg&s=f10"><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://f10.putfile.com/thumb/8/22416031698.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>
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Re: Sexual abuse poster on the street

Postby Attack Ships on Fire » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:02 pm

That's messed up.<br><br>Your wife is doing the right karma thing by trying to direct this woman to a shelter program. While she might not want the help, the truth of the matter is that she is the protector of a second life now and should be looking for support assistance for her soon-to-be child. Reminding this woman of that fact may not be enough to jar her towards common sense; she's smoking and living on the street, and both of those can be taken care of if the individual wants to change.<br><br>Regardless of the eventual outcome, kudos to your wife for being a decent human being. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Sexual abuse poster on the street

Postby Et in Arcadia ego » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:34 pm

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Regardless of the eventual outcome, kudos to your wife for being a decent human being.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>It's a shame that such an apparently appropriate act would earn merit in this society instead of being waved off as mere common sense. I'm royally disgusted with Western Culture. We here at RI bitch and moan about the PTP(and are right to do so), but for the most part, the average American sleepwalks through the perpetual exploitation of the rest of our Earth without even realizing even the poorest of us here live like kings and queens.<br><br>And yet an act as fundamental as trying to help a homeless person(even if she has no appetite to help herself) earns the accolade of a Good Deed of the Day..<br><br>It's very demoralizing for me. I don't mean anything by that towards you at all, btw, just a small rant against our society as a whole.<br><br>But that picture, man...She experienced something outside a 'normal' date rape. I want to ask her about it, but I don't feel like it's my place to do so at all, and would have no way of even measuring whether or not she was being truthful. Words are greasy and not to be trusted, but Art lets sleeping beasts pass through the veil.. <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>
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Postby Attack Ships on Fire » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:06 pm

Arcadia, I just wanted to comment on your response. I know you didn't mean any offense and none was taken when I read what you said, but I also wanted to add this follow-up.<br><br>When I wrote my original post I almost added saying that your wife is part of a large group of anonymous people that I see through the course of my daily life, but I decided that it sounded too feel good. Still, after I read your post I feel that you need to know that: it's not all bad, uncaring people out there, at least in the city that I live in. While walking down the street of my city I've seen people dressed in housemom clothing or business attaire engaging in conversation with homeless people. I know of dozens of local organizations that attract interest and donations that help homeless people, as well as battered wives, kids in trouble or people that are in crisis. I've also seen homeless people abuse the good will of strangers, but almost all of my experience with these sorts of individuals are with street kids that are doing the homeless thing to be cool or avant guard rather than out of necessity. During her last job, my wife saw an older Asian man beg every day for change on a street corner. One day she saw this same man being picked up by a newer model minivan, which probably means this guy isn't homeless and begging for change is his job.<br><br>My experiences have led me to believe in supporting the organizations that exist to address and support the homeless and not the individuals begging for spare change. Your wife did the right thing by suggesting to this woman that she can get some help from your local organizations, but ultimately it is up to the individual to seek the help. My common sense tells me that if you're pregnant and not getting help, you're an idiot, but as the old saying goes, you still can't force a horse to drink water if it doesn't want to.<br><br>I think that there is a tremendous amount of change happening with average citizens because of the freedom of information. 25-30 years ago people would automatically give spare change to someone without question; then sometime in the 80s people began to become jaded, but organizations started to increase awareness of how people can help. Today there are dozens of ways to help homeless people in my city, whether by donating clothes, money, supporting awareness or by taking part in conversations like this one. Every little bit helps, and I also believe that the same thing is happening with the movements towards raising the awareness of people towards world affairs, conspiracies and cover-ups.<br><br>Also, you don't hear about good news that much on the news because it doesn't grab the attention the same way that death, disease and fear does, but good news still happens when you're not watching or learning about it. If you're feeling helpless, try to spend some time finding out what good your local organizations are doing for the homeless because they have a daily, frontline view of the situation; all we see is a seemingly endless parade of people on street corners as we walk to work, so it can look hopeless. When you think about it, would you know about the world's current level of fear and uncertainty over terrorism if you didn't tune into the news? Of course not, but you don't see the daily effect of this escalation in fear if you live in North America and haven't walked into an airport in the last week. We're aware of all these things going on around us like terrorism, Bush being an idiot, financial meltdowns and so on because we're paying attention to the news placed in front of us; by the same token, if we investigated what's happening with charities around us locally, we might find something to feel good about. All those millions of dollars and untold hours of volunteering are coming from somewhere, aren't they?<br><br>Cheer up. It's not all bad. Yes, the problems of global warming, nukes, terrorists and corrupt politicians are still out there, but you need to stay mentally healthy too. It is not all bad, and the first step in combating the problems is recognizing they exist, then combating them. There are so many horrors that can happen to anyone that it's easy for a person paying attention to the world around them to want to withdraw from it all so it will go away, but it's not worth surrendering the fight for.<br><br>Your wife did a good, compassionate act and there's nothing wrong in saying "Thank you". Feel good about having a woman like that. Tell her some stranger on the internet thinks she rocks and deserves a pat on the back. And enjoy the day.<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Sexual abuse poster on the street

Postby pugzleyca3 » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:10 pm

She does have some artistic ability, creepy as it is. Note the the women in the pic, they are quite well drawn.<br><br>That monster reminds me of Chet when he was turned into a monster in the movie "Weird Science".<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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