
Kitty Genovese and “Bystander Apathy”
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The Importance of Being Your Wife or Girlfriend
In 1964, it wasn't considered really that problematic to be your wife or your girlfriend. A guy named Joseph Fink is the assistant super of the apartment building across from the building where kiddies was first attacked. He has the clearest view of anyone of the first attack and he sees the shine of the knife's blade. So like, this is not a story where no one was apathetic. This one guy and queen sucks. That's like a daily news headline. That's not a New York Times headline.
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