Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why it Matters
By Vanessa Veselka

So yes. One might argue that perhaps so few narratives exist because positive transformative experiences are rare. In other words, that for women hitchhikers, rape and death are pretty much all that is out there and, given time, they are what each woman will meet statistically. Setting aside death (which, statistically, we will all meet), it is fair to say that any woman who hitchhikes long enough might very well get raped. But it is also true that every guy who works on a crab boat might fall overboard or lose a finger, and that every chef will probably get badly burned. Over enough time, every guy on the street will probably get beaten up, soldiers in active combat duty will be shot at, and every racecar driver will crash—yet we view these statistical likelihoods differently.

Очень интересное эссе о невидимости убиваемых на дорогах и у дорог женщин, мифологии, власти нарратива, разнице в вопросах "Как?" и "Почему?", об источниках agency (аргх, ну нет русского аналога этого слова!).

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