{"id":3806,"date":"2014-02-26T18:53:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T13:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2014-03-03T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T09:34:06","slug":"shocking-responses-to-attack-on-woman-wearing-google-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2014\/uncategorized\/shocking-responses-to-attack-on-woman-wearing-google-glass.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Responses to Attack on Woman Wearing Google Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like attacking people wearing Google Glass is the new &#8220;cool thing&#8221; to do. The excuses are familiar. The attackers were &#8220;provoked&#8221;, the girl wearing the glasses &#8220;had it coming&#8221;, why was she wearing them in a bar, blah blah blah. New circumstances, same old story. If you&#8217;re thinking to yourself that this sounds remarkably like people blaming rape victims for wearing &#8220;provocative clothing&#8221;, being out at night, getting drunk, or engaging in flirtatious behavior, you&#8217;re not alone. The two phenomena are the same.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Slocum was attacked in a San Fransisco bar for wearing Google Glasses. She was not breaking the law, she wasn&#8217;t recording anyone without their permission, and by all accounts was engaged in friendly chit chat with bar patrons. Seeing her, some goons (both men and women) assaulted and robbed her. This by itself is bad enough. But <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2014\/02\/25\/woman-wearing-google-says-she-was-attacked-in-san-francisco-bar\/\">reading the comments<\/a> on that page is a truly disturbing experience. To any reasonable person, this poor woman is a victim. Going about her business in a public place, she was assaulted for no fault of her own&#8230;but not according to those defending the attack on her. Here&#8217;s one sample comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only an idiot would run around wearing those things, especially at a bar, and not expect a negative reaction. Enough already.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;negative reaction&#8221; just came from the sky did it? A force of nature. It&#8217;s not as if specific people decided to assault her. Oh no, it&#8217;s like the weather. If you walk without looking, you only have yourself to blame if you fall into a pothole. Apparently the attackers lacked human agency and couldn&#8217;t restrain themselves. They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2014\/rights-and-freedoms\/he-lost-control-why-thats-a-bullshit-excuse.html\/\">&#8220;lost control&#8221;<\/a>. Same bullshit excuse all the time.<\/p>\n<p>If people have a problem with Google Glass, let them take corrective action by getting a bill passed through the appropriate legislative body. Let them vote and decide their issues based on it. But no, such a measure would never pass muster because people don&#8217;t have an expectation of privacy in a public place. But still, maybe this kind of ubiquitous surveillance potential argues for news laws. Fair enough. Make the case in court. Or shut up and suck it up.<\/p>\n<p>Attacking someone who&#8217;s not harming you is never ok. It does&#8217;t matter what your grievance is &#8211; if you use physical force, you immediately surrender all moral standing and are revealed to be the goon and thug you are deep inside. When that happens, you are wrong and the other person is a victim. End. Of. Story. Clearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2013\/rights-and-freedoms\/why-do-we-indians-blame-the-victim.html\/\">victim blaming<\/a> is not an &#8220;Indian&#8221; thing. The context is different sure, but underneath we&#8217;re all the same. While people from other countries might not blame the victim in some situations, it&#8217;s obvious that they smoothly stoop to these depths when it comes to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending those who attack people wearing Google Glass is very much like blaming a rape victim for her clothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25,23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-technology","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shocking Responses to Attack on Woman Wearing Google Glass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Defending those who attack people wearing Google Glass is very much like blaming a rape victim for her clothing.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2014\/uncategorized\/shocking-responses-to-attack-on-woman-wearing-google-glass.html\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shocking Responses to Attack on Woman Wearing Google Glass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Defending those who attack people wearing Google Glass is very much like blaming a rape victim for her clothing.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2014\/uncategorized\/shocking-responses-to-attack-on-woman-wearing-google-glass.html\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Expressions - 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