August 19, 2013 - As stated above, many of the upcoming comics will deal with storylines regarding rape. I'm going to try my best to make note of any comics specifically in the archive (and I possibly should go back and amend some pages to include trigger warnings), but in the interest of finding a compromise that is both sensitive to survivors of rape and not spoiling future storylines, I've decided to put up a trigger warning at the top of the main page as well as place this paragraph at the top of the blog with considerable lead time before the comics depicting such situations are posted.
I talked somewhat Friday about the idea of vigilante justice touching on the inadequacy of how domestic violence laws protect potential victims. Thursday night a tragic incident transpired wherein a man not held on domestic violence charges the Tuesday prior was not held on domestic violence charges despite a highly questionable history and ended up murdering his girlfriend that Thursday. The case hasn't been getting much national attention but is fairly prominent in the Boston area as the murderer is the son of local celebrity and long time Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy. There are several witnesses to this incident with two people who unsuccessfully tried to rescue Ms. Martel so the question isn't a matter of what took place, but what could have been done to stop it. Did Jared Remy's father play a significant role in keeping him out of prison despite his history or are their larger institutional problems that may have caused his case to have been incorrectly evaluated? The biggest tragedy of all this is my fear that it could disuade victims of domestic violence from coming forward out of fear it may only may make their situation worse. Unfortunately I don't have answers to this but I think trying to encourage a discussion of these ideas is important and may bring about significant change. In the meantime there's a link to the Domestic Abuse Hotline on the sidebar to deal with specific instances of abuse I would just like to see more institutional changes to prevent such incidents on a larger scale.
-D
I talked somewhat Friday about the idea of vigilante justice touching on the inadequacy of how domestic violence laws protect potential victims. Thursday night a tragic incident transpired wherein a man not held on domestic violence charges the Tuesday prior was not held on domestic violence charges despite a highly questionable history and ended up murdering his girlfriend that Thursday. The case hasn't been getting much national attention but is fairly prominent in the Boston area as the murderer is the son of local celebrity and long time Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy. There are several witnesses to this incident with two people who unsuccessfully tried to rescue Ms. Martel so the question isn't a matter of what took place, but what could have been done to stop it. Did Jared Remy's father play a significant role in keeping him out of prison despite his history or are their larger institutional problems that may have caused his case to have been incorrectly evaluated? The biggest tragedy of all this is my fear that it could disuade victims of domestic violence from coming forward out of fear it may only may make their situation worse. Unfortunately I don't have answers to this but I think trying to encourage a discussion of these ideas is important and may bring about significant change. In the meantime there's a link to the Domestic Abuse Hotline on the sidebar to deal with specific instances of abuse I would just like to see more institutional changes to prevent such incidents on a larger scale.
-D
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