{"id":153310,"date":"2015-05-23T17:54:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T17:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/23\/elizabitchtaylor-i-learned-about-the-murder-of\/"},"modified":"2015-05-23T17:54:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T17:54:23","slug":"elizabitchtaylor-i-learned-about-the-murder-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/23\/elizabitchtaylor-i-learned-about-the-murder-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

elizabitchtaylor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I learned about the murder of Kitty Genovese<\/a>\u00a0in two separate psychology classes, at two separate universities. It was studied as an example of the \u201cbystander effect\u201d, which is a phenomenon that occurs when witnesses do not offer help to a victim when there are other people presen<\/a>t.<\/p>\n

I was told by my professors that Kitty Genovese was a 28-year-old unmarried woman who was attacked, raped, and brutally murdered on her way home from her shift as manager of a bar. I was told that numerous people witnessed the attack and her cries for help but didn\u2019t do anything because they\u00a0\u201cassumed someone else would\u201d. Nobody intervened until it was too late.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What I was not<\/i> told was that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian who lived more or less openly with her partner in the Upper West Side<\/a>\u00a0and managed a gay bar.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Now\u2026 is it likely that people overheard Kitty\u2019s cries for help and ignored them because they thought someone else would deal with it? Or, perhaps, did they ignore her because they knew she was a lesbian and just didn\u2019t care?<\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s not the case. Maybe it was just a random attack. Maybe her neighbours didn\u2019t know she was gay, or didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a huge chunk of information to leave out about her in a supposedly scientific study of events, since her sexuality made her much more vulnerable to violent crimes than the average person. And it\u2019s a dishonour to her memory.<\/p>\n

RIP Kitty Genovese. Society may only remember you for how you died, but I will remember you for who who were.<\/p>\n

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elizabitchtaylor: I learned about the murder of Kitty Genovese\u00a0in two separate psychology classes, at two separate universities. It was studied as an example of the \u201cbystander effect\u201d, which is a phenomenon that occurs when witnesses do not offer help to a victim when there are other people present. I was told by my professors that … <\/p>\n

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