- Responding to a photo essay on domestic violence, commenters attacked everyone except the abuser
Wow. That's ridiculous. This is on par with "punishing scientists for falsely predicting disasters, such as earthquakes". My God. I read about that on a Reader's Digest, and there were actually people arguing for that. On a side note, I don't like when people say "the internet.. got mad; praised; fell in love with;" etc. The internet isn't to be personified. The internet is just a collection of knowledge, and a transportation of information, whether it's human readable information or not. It's a medium, not a the subject. It's the city, not the building. The highway system, and not the cars. Nonetheless,
"The only adult in the house during the assault who isn’t responsible for the violence is the man committing it." That's powerful. EDIT: OR WORSE YET, WHEN PEOPLE ADVOCATE PUNISHING SCIENTISTS FOR NOT PREDICTING EARTHQUAKES. AGH.
I read something about photographers that had taken some of the most famous photographs in recent history and how those photos had affected them. I'm on my phone at the moment, so I'll try to post it later, but there was a photographer who took a picture of a young girl trapped in a pit after some kind of a disaster and he was unable to get her out for some reason. Over time the guilt he felt ate away at him and if I remember correctly he ended up killing himself. Being a photojournalist for that kind of subject matter seems like a tough road. EDIT: I read that article a while ago and it seems I've mixed two things up. Oops! The photo of the girl, Omayra Sánchez by Frank Fournier was the photo I was thinking of and the photographer I was thinking of was Kevin Carter who did kill himself, but apparently due to unrelated depression. My bad!
Here is the photo essay this piece is based on.