Is it to be torture-raped? Now let me ask what is for me the real question. Why, to convert the line from W. Why no womanly sympathy for another woman? Is it so hard for a woman who has not personally undergone this ordeal to picture herself as … maybe … vulnerable? You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Email Address:. In principle, there is no bar to men joining in, since how one defines women has a lot to do with what it means to be a man. I can be wrong as often as right, so specific advice will be avoided. What will be sought is light on how best to frame the situation of women, considered as a highly interesting problematic. What kind of hand have we been dealt, as women, and how can we best play it?
Skip to content. Vot does Voman vant? Share this: Twitter Facebook Pinterest Email. Like this: Like Loading She is the author of A Good Look at Evil, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, now available in an expanded, revised second edition and as an audiobook. Her next book, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, forthcoming and illustrated, provides multiple illustrations from her own life. She is married to Jerry L. Martin, also a philosopher. The "Gotterdaemmerung" came the next day.
One hundred Los Angeles police officers mounted an assault on a home at 54th Street, a place determined to be an SLA hideout. The event was captured on live television. Police ordered the home's occupants to "Come on out.
Hands up. The heavily armed SLA members succeeded in pinning down the police for a time. In the end, however, teargas grenades started a fire that consumed the house. Hearst responded by criticizing "the fascist pig media" for "painting a typically distorted picture" of her "beautiful sisters and brothers" killed in the assault. She said that "out of the ashes" of the fire she "was reborn"--and knew what she had to do next.
The arrest of Patty Hearst came over a year later, after authorities following the trail of SLA member Kathleen Soliah who had not long before organized a commemoration of the gun battle in a Berkeley park were led to Emily and William Harris and Hearst. Hearst was arrested on September 18, at her apartment in the outer Mission District of San Francisco. Patty Hearst's mother, Catherine, expressed confidence that her daughter would not face imprisonment: "I don't believe Patty's legal problems are that serious.
After all, she's primarily a kidnap victim. She never went off and did anything of her own free will. The trial of Patricia Hearst began on February 4, two years to the day after the kidnapping in the courtroom of U.
District Judge Oliver J. The kidnap victim, who had spent fifty-nine days blindfolded and living in a closet where she was subjected to verbal and sexual abuse, was charged with armed robbery of the Hibernia Bank. In the days following her arrest three months earlier, Hearst had maintained her allegiance to the SLA. By the time of the trial, however, she had changed her tune. She claimed she had been brainwashed and feared that had she tried to return to her parents, she would have been killed.
Her hair, dyed a brassy red when she was arrested, has been toned to a gentle chestnut and coiffed softly around her face. Her tight and revealing sweater and jeans have been replaced by tasteful slacks and jackets. She no longer lifts manacled wrists in black power salute and her eyes are, for the most part, downcast, as if she were sharing a secret with herself. The defense of Hearst was headed by F. Lee Bailey and his associate Albert Johnson. Bailey chose to adopt the strategy of attempting to prove that Hearst had been "brainwashed" and suffered from what has been variously called the "Stockholm Syndrome" or the "POW Survivor Syndrome.
Stockholm Syndrome sufferers are captives who, after a period of being utterly dependent upon the captors, become sympathetic to their captors' cause. Under Bailey's theory, Hearst was never a free agent or voluntary member of the SLA, up to and including the time of her arrest. The defense strategy of claiming brainwashing and duress, critics pointed out, had several problems.
First, the actions and statements of Hearst after the Hibernia robbery strongly suggested that she was acting freely and it was not necessary in the case, critics noted, to establish that Hearst remained brainwashed throughout the entire time up to her arrest--rather only that she was not a free agent at the time of the robbery.
Second, brainwashing was not recognized as a defense to bank robbery under federal law, and Judge Carter's instructions to jurors, telling them that Hearst had to have been acting out of an "immediate fear for her life" made acquittal on this theory difficult.
Third, the strategy seemed to fly in the face of facts. Judge Carter's ruling undercut the defense strategy by allowing the prosecution to introduce evidence of statements and events after the robbery to prove her state of mind at the time of the robbery. Thus the jury listened to Patty tell Americans on an audiotape, "'The idea of brainwashing is ridiculous. She also had to listen to embarrassing expert testimony about her vulnerability and endure a humiliating cross-examination about a wide range of topics, including her sex life.
The strategy, one commentator observed, "deprived Patty of the right to feel blameworthy and get on with her life. Why, then, did Bailey opt for the brainwashing theory? One reason is because that was the theory that Hearst's parents wanted him to use--and they were paying for his defense. Randolph and Catherine Hearst seemed unwilling to accept that their daughter would voluntarily choose to become an SLA member.
Another reason might have been Bailey's fear that arguing in this case that Hearst's voluntary conversion came after the Hibernia robbery would expose her to a future prosecution for her shooting outside Mel's Sporting Goods store a month after the bank robbery.
So when Davies told him she was pregnant, according to family lore, he put her on a steamship to Europe and followed later. They say she gave birth to a baby girl in a small Catholic hospital outside Paris. The year was sometime between and ; Lake never knew exactly.
Much of what happened afterward is a matter of debate. Lake is not here to tell her story, but she confided the following account to her grown children and a handful of close friends before she died:. At least on paper. It was co-written by Lake and his mother-in-law Marion Davies. Patricia played tennis there with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Errol Flynn spotted her, all of 17, at a beach party and was smitten. So was she.
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