No Place to Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons Story
2015
Action / Crime / Documentary
No Place to Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons Story
2015
Action / Crime / Documentary
Plot summary
When Rehtaeh Parsons was 15 years old, she went to a party that would define her remaining teenage years. She was sexually attacked and had no memory of it, until photographic evidence spread through social media. The resulting humiliation and bullying the Nova Scotia teen received led to her tragic suicide less than two years later. News of her death reverberated worldwide, a stunning demonstration of the power of images and social networks to amplify the extent of rape culture and effects of depression. Now, her parents and those who knew her reassemble the pieces of Parsons’s life in their courageous quest to make accountable the systems that failed to protect her. With the support of Anonymous, an online campaign and public pressure, they forced the Nova Scotian government and RCMP to address the case and bring the perpetrators to justice. Parsons’s story epitomizes the immense capacity of new tools in these nascent years of social networking.
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So sad these boys should be in jail
Oh the obscenity of our collective inaction...
.... until it's our nightmare? Is a sense of decency in 96-98% ? Of us able to sleep through the explosion of unimaginable suffering and sorrow at the hands of a fraction of humanity whose behavior we all agree is abhorrent unthinkable cruel - all that stuff too vulgar for words to contain- yet until it detonates in our lives, we fail to notice the avoidable needless tragedy our collective decency could end. Or at least begin to. This story demands we notice because there are more atrocities inside it than any one life should be forced to bear alone. And this story deserves better than a cowardly dance around its edges in scattered fingers of blame that by dividing in direction only weakens the impact on ALL (= any) who take part in what our united rage at the indecency fights fiercely together- and not only when it detonates in our backyard but before it happens to anyone again. Yes I'm American and this is a Canadian atrocity and laws differ. But decency doesn't. Whatever happens to you happens to me. That's my American idealism but I swear to God... technology advancements that bring unaddressed misery on its back are failures.






