Clip: Peep Show (2x01)
To me Stalking is serious and intimidating for the victim as they gradually feel that their life isn’t their own anymore as the stalker becomes increasing obsessive over the victim’s whereabouts and mentally thinks they have the right to about the victim’s personal things and whereabouts.
In the clip shown there was a not so serious form of stalking as one of the character was invading the privacy of a colleague just so he can find out information about her in order to gain an advantage in ‘getting it together’ with her, as a whole it was funny but when you look at it seems rather drastic and ‘pathetic’ as many people would rather just actually talk to the person naturally.
The actions of the character in the clip brought up in the discussion the first question of when does a concerned interest in someone’s activities become stalking? I think it becomes stalking when the victim feels nervous when doing something normal in their everyday lives such as walking down their road; it also becomes serious when the stalker goes to extreme lengths of finding out personal information such as passwords to the victims log ins this is when it becomes increasingly terrifying for the victim when the stalker obsession turns into knowing every little detail of the persons lives.
Another question of Are some kinds of observance allowable and appropriate and which ones aren’t? There are many things that we do in our own lives such as watching children but in recent times our fear over paedophiles has risen as there has been a cases in the news finding people guilty over child abuse and one shocking case/story that comes to mind is the case that includes TWO WOMEN and One Man, no wonder we are ever increasingly seeing things in normal life and changing them over our fears about paedophiles rising over stories in the news especially the one that involved the two women as that story alone changed our viewpoints and made us even suspicious over women and not just men, there is an example that was in the news last year involving parents being banned from playing with their own children over fears that they are not ‘checked’ by the police: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223528/Parents-banned-supervising-children-playgrounds--case-paedophiles.html is this an example of being too careful when playing with our own children? Another article in the news involves something of the same kind of alerting about parents is how a school bans parents from watching a kid’s sports day with the reason of ‘keeping out paedophiles’: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/07/04/fool-sports-day-115875-21493522 I think this is one example that our fears are simply going too far so much that a much loved day for the children playing a day of sports is ruined by the possibility that their parents can’t be there to cheer them on with camcorder recording the ‘special’ day.
The actions in real life that aren’t so acceptable is the constant watching of other people and the hacking into a person’s emails and logins that I’ve already mentioned because it’s a sign of unwanted attention as the victim fears that their life is no longer theirs; it become even more terrifying when the victim is thinks that it will go as far as his/her death, this viewpoint into stalking came into news when a story of a women was shot in a cold blooded killing by her ex which turned into her stalker and then he turned the gun on himself: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article566373.ece it shocked the nation when the story came to light it also was later when an investigation into the killing found out that the police/authorities had failed to protect the victim: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/19/ukcrime.ukguns .
This is one example that one persons obsession can turn deadly and turn tragic.
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