It's as if she was trying to say "I'm female, therefore I have to have sympathy or empathy with the victims of abuse because I might be a potential victim as well, LOL".
Really, I want to slap and tell her to get a grip. If your friend is telling you something this important, sharing this bit of information to you is because she or he considers you special enough to know something so intimate.
It stung extra because it made me wonder if this is what my friends were actually thinking when I told them about my past. Then again, if they were anything like this I would probably not call them friends.
and i saw the documentary about it and wanted to cry.
one girl they interviewed said she had said awful things about this girl online and then said "well. I was very angry when I wrote it.....but if it's true what she said I think I'm gonna feel very awful."
Holy crap. It's like someone systematically took their smarts out and inserted jerkiness. wtf, just because you have a crush on someone doesn't mean you'll consent to sex -- in fact, her crush on him must have made the initial experience worse.
The only time I have not believed someone when they told me about their "abuse" was because I had seen the actual interaction the night before when she was drunk off of her ass and trying to shove her hand down the pants of a guy who was there with his girlfriend. She tried to lie to me, point blank, about the fact that she'd been "jumped" right after the girlfriend told her to stop.
Uh no. I was there the entire time, waiting on edge to make sure I wasn't going to have to jump in and rescue her sloppy ass and KEEP her from getting into a fight. I told her this, and was all of a sudden the worst person in the world and she stopped speaking to me after that. The make up'd bruises on her face were a nice touch too, but bruises shouldn't leave brown spots on my shirt when I hug you hello.
Yeah, that was about the point in my life when I decided I needed to seriously re-think the crowd of people I was hanging out with. It's been almost eight months and they've written me off because I'm not hip to their gossip/drama mongering and alliance changing and pushing people out of the group that I only dislike because they don't kiss my ass every five minutes.
Some of these people are in their late 30's, too. It's so fucking sad to see adults acting like this when I'm two decades younger and have made far better choices.
It's the "I'm female" part that ruined it for me. I know that I sometimes doubt my friends' stories of abuse, too, but I try to listen and comfort anyway. It makes me feel tons guilty and I try to keep it inside. But the "I'm female" part? wut?
This wasn't a slam against female gamers, btw. More like a slam of the ones who use it to separate themselves from GUUUURLS who only care about make-up and ponies.
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Really, I want to slap and tell her to get a grip. If your friend is telling you something this important, sharing this bit of information to you is because she or he considers you special enough to know something so intimate.
*sighs* This secret surely annoyed me.
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and i saw the documentary about it and wanted to cry.
one girl they interviewed said she had said awful things about this girl online and then said "well. I was very angry when I wrote it.....but if it's true what she said I think I'm gonna feel very awful."
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Uh no. I was there the entire time, waiting on edge to make sure I wasn't going to have to jump in and rescue her sloppy ass and KEEP her from getting into a fight. I told her this, and was all of a sudden the worst person in the world and she stopped speaking to me after that. The make up'd bruises on her face were a nice touch too, but bruises shouldn't leave brown spots on my shirt when I hug you hello.
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Some of these people are in their late 30's, too. It's so fucking sad to see adults acting like this when I'm two decades younger and have made far better choices.
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