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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
But something tells me Kathy Sage thinks people in Houston are qualitatively different from people in NYC and LA, such that those were the cities she chose to distinguish from Melvern, Kansas instead of, say, the geographically nearest metropolis.
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Atticus, please take the stick out of your butt and let this go. Whatever makes you think you can read her mind and know that she is thinking qualitatively rather than quantitatively?
I'm from a small town in the heartland and interpreted her comment as something completely different. I think it was about security, not superiority. Living in a small town gives one a sense (sometimes false) of security because of the numbers. Everybody knows everyone's business and you think you would know if one of your neighbors is heading off the rails. So you assume that any danger would come from a stranger and a stranger is going to stick out because you know everyone else. From that perspective, you think a woman carving up someone to take her baby
should happen in a big city where people can't possibly know everyone rather than it being a woman you've seen in Piggly Wiggly every week.
Why pick on NYC? Not only is it the poster child of big cities, but check the TV schedule: three varieties of Law & Order and CSI:NY and that's just network. LA is the biggest city on the other coast and has had its share of crime news.
My translation is that this shattered her sense of complete security of believing that bad things should happen only in big big cities where the danger of the unknown is all around you, not in small towns where you are surrounded by people you [think] you know.
Maybe Atticus is right and she thinks people in NYC and LA are worse than in Kansas. But maybe he isn't.
