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...apathy of the spectators. They were ordinary people. 'Don't get angry, Mister,' someone said, 'she's a whore'....The woman was obviously now going through a fit of hysterics. As they were taking her to the police station...she would sit down on the ground every five steps, scream and lift up her clothes, revealing her nakedness, to show the bruises. 'I'm a prostitute, is that why they have to whip me? It's the pimp's fault--I'll show...
America's working-class women have possibly the meanest street in the country to travel--and when they scream rape, almost no one will care. So they are learning a lesson which many more secure women have yet to learn--that we have not won ground until we are strong enough to hold that ground alone. And like the Vietnamese peasants fighting imperialism, they cannot give up the fight and go home--what they are fighting for is a home to go to. But working-class women are learning to fight well. In that reality there is hope...
...Scream Fire...
...suggestion in "Revolt Against Rape" [July 22] that women in danger should scream should be carried one step further. Instead of screaming "rape" or "help," they should scream "fire." Unfortunately, many people within earshot may hesitate to respond to the screams of some one in danger unless they feel that they personally share that danger...
When Willy kills himself at the end of the play, Linda gives out a piercing scream. In that scream there is a misplaced sense of horror--as if the tragedy resides in the fact of Willy's death (a fact we know to be impending from the very start), rather than in the nature of his life, in the horror of a man as he watches the utter wasteland of his life come crashing through his last remaining Maginot line of self-delusion. The crucial point here is that Willy is not just a broken-down salesman--he never...