I was feeling extra tired Saturday evening so I decided to stay in that night. I gave in to the urge to retrieve some food and then settled onto the couch to see what I could find on TV (despite the fact that I never find anything interesting on TV).

For some reason I stopped on some channel long enough to see a young man (I’m thinking early 20′s) force a young girl (guessing around 15) into the woods off the side of the road. She was screaming and he was trying to shut her up while telling her he’d kill her if she caused too much trouble. He threw her to the ground, got on top of her, and the camera cut to a new scene. He was walking out of the woods saying “she shouldn’t have been walking down the road by herself”.

Reminds me of a conversation some friends of mine were having on another blog.

Turns out it was some sort of “Unsolved Mysteries” type documentary and I just didn’t feel like watching it.

I flipped a few more channels and stopped at TNT where John Travolta was getting into a car. I like movies. I decided to stick around and see if I liked this one.

John and some lady drove to Westpoint Military Academy and spoke with a man tending some plants in a greenhouse. He recounted the story of an event that happened 7 years earlier in which a female soldier, who was doing much better than most of the men, was raped by a group of fellow soldiers during a massive night-time training exercise.

I don’t know why, but I watched the rest of the movie (which turned out to be The General’s Daughter). I was so confused by what had happened and why the people had done the things they had done. After the movie was over it started right back up again and I decided to watch the beginning to see what I had missed. I wanted it to make a little bit more sense.

Well, it made a little bit more sense. Not the rape, of course not the rape, but what people did in response to the rape. It’s an ugly world out there.

Two different shows on the same night. I didn’t feel very good when I went to bed after that.

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