Amulets of Protection
© Colleen Rae, 2011
The last two nights have been rugged with insomnia. I’ve had a lot of thoughts about our human tendency to blame the victims. I used to watch this in rape trials in the 60s and 70s. “If she hadn’t worn such a short skirt, she’d never have been raped.” I came to understand it was an “amulet” of sorts–a way to ward of bad things happening because oneself would never “invite” rape by wearing a mini (or whatever the person ‘did wrong’). Of course, this all ignored the fact that old ladies asleep in their bed have intruders rape them.
So here’s my question, “Why do people say it’s Japan’s ‘karma’ to have these bad things happen, but no one said that with the earthquake and deaths in Christchurch, New Zealand or the when 2/3s of Queensland, Australia was underwater or even when the tsunami hit in Indonesia killing a quarter of a million people?”
And why would dolphins not just target the horrible people who kill dolphins and other sea creatures? Why would they target a bunch of retirees who have now lost everything?
I could go on, but I’m sure you get my point.
I find all this very disturbing.
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