"..I mean, precognition is essentially pattern recognition along with a probability algorithm, we all do it every time we cross a road.."
Tuesday 27 August 2019
Wednesday 7 August 2019
This is sad, and random but on my mind today.
When I was a kid I was sexually assaulted, this is known, no worries, my life has moved on time ago. It gave me an insight. I was 15 when I first went through court. I tried to talk to some friends my age (of an economic class above mine mostly), they baulked of course & I could've realised they would but didn't at the time. It let me know how much I had grown, perspective widened, and I realise as I reflect on it now.. my first insights into most things criminal started long before that with sexual assults on others. Where I lived the rates of stranger assaults were average, being a young girl/woman who sometimes walked to school we would be informed of danger areas and when was more of a risk to be out alone day or night, for these months at a time (about 8 or 9 when we started getting regular warnings, school, tv, friends' mums, neighbours etc). Winter there were always fewer but if reports came in you had to take them more seriously, summer rapists were laissez-faire(!) (That's sarcasm brackets, just in case it's unknown). At some point I started marking in my mind patterns of progression and threat levels for myself. By the time I was 15 and fucked up enough to walk at night alone in my trench coat wherever the wind took me I was pretty good at it, carried a knife (& lessons on use) anyway, I'm not an idiot. Is it unusual that this was my inital insight into crime? From what I know of other Brit' women.. nope, not at all.
#metoo
When I was a kid I was sexually assaulted, this is known, no worries, my life has moved on time ago. It gave me an insight. I was 15 when I first went through court. I tried to talk to some friends my age (of an economic class above mine mostly), they baulked of course & I could've realised they would but didn't at the time. It let me know how much I had grown, perspective widened, and I realise as I reflect on it now.. my first insights into most things criminal started long before that with sexual assults on others. Where I lived the rates of stranger assaults were average, being a young girl/woman who sometimes walked to school we would be informed of danger areas and when was more of a risk to be out alone day or night, for these months at a time (about 8 or 9 when we started getting regular warnings, school, tv, friends' mums, neighbours etc). Winter there were always fewer but if reports came in you had to take them more seriously, summer rapists were laissez-faire(!) (That's sarcasm brackets, just in case it's unknown). At some point I started marking in my mind patterns of progression and threat levels for myself. By the time I was 15 and fucked up enough to walk at night alone in my trench coat wherever the wind took me I was pretty good at it, carried a knife (& lessons on use) anyway, I'm not an idiot. Is it unusual that this was my inital insight into crime? From what I know of other Brit' women.. nope, not at all.
#metoo
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