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This is just speaking from personal experience, now.
Originally posted by
indiglo
It seems to me that someone in their life, be it friend or family (or a judge ) would make some effort to say "hey, that's not cool. Ladies don't like that and the ones that do you probably don't want".
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It seems to me that someone in their life, be it friend or family (or a judge ) would make some effort to say "hey, that's not cool. Ladies don't like that and the ones that do you probably don't want".
Someone (a friend, family member OR judge) may have said just that. But not all people care to behave in appropriate, socially acceptable ways.
You make a good point about serial killers and rapists sometimes being very charismatic and NOT setting off bells or alarms though. That only makes me think that we aren't calling ENOUGH men creepy! lol (Not really.) Part of life is knowing that we aren't clairvoyant wizards, and we can't know the outcome of every situation. All we can do is try to be aware and alert... like P'Gell said, we can't control other people's behavior. So we just do the best we can to stay alert and the rest is luck & happenstance I suppose. less
Someone (a friend, family member OR judge) may have said just that. But not all people care to behave in appropriate, socially acceptable ways.
You make a good point about serial killers and rapists sometimes being very charismatic and NOT setting off bells or alarms though. That only makes me think that we aren't calling ENOUGH men creepy! lol (Not really.) Part of life is knowing that we aren't clairvoyant wizards, and we can't know the outcome of every situation. All we can do is try to be aware and alert... like P'Gell said, we can't control other people's behavior. So we just do the best we can to stay alert and the rest is luck & happenstance I suppose. less
There were very few men in my life when I was a kid. The one man I trusted above and beyond all else, my mom divorced when I was in grade school. After that, there were two or three family friends that I trust pretty well. Two out of those three ended up being massive creeps. Just can't even begin to tell you the inappropriate things they had to say or did. One guy would drop off a pack of bubble gum and my favorite soft drink on the porch while I was at school. He was at least 24 years older than I was. I never told anyone, until the day he delivered a sixteen page letter to my house professing his love for me. I was sixteen years old. (The coincidence should be noted, as it was no coincidence at all.)
He seemed like such a nice guy. Did fatherly/brotherly things with me, taught me a lot about music from his generation and then some...it just never occurred to me that he would be a threat.
Never occurred to anyone else either.
So, yeah I think you're right that it boils down to luck and happenstance but I can't help but sometimes wonder what I could have done to be more prepared for that and how I could have handled the situation better before it escalated to that point. I had been alone, in the middle of the woods with this guy for overnight camping trips...
I think my parents did a good job of making me aware that there are evil and creepy people in this world, but they did a really shitty job of teaching me how to look for it and ignored the "how to handle it" part.