Emmmrld
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Joined: 4/21/2005 From: Las Vegas, Nevada Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: ProtagonistLily Ahh, it must be so nice to be so evolved, M. I've had bad people crop up in my life after thinking they were ok, and I've learned much. However, I don't fool myself by thinking I am immune to letting in con artists or misjudging people at first glance. It happens, as it happened to the woman in Emrrld's story. I find it particularly alarming that we, mostly woman in this discussion, continue to blame the victim and feel that she should have known better. That, in and of itself, is the most troubling thing for me through this conversation. Of course it is your opinion, and you are entitled to it. I simply don't agree with you. And I'd still love to know how our resident omnitient figured this out. Lily Lily - Thank you for mentioning a very disturbing point, attacking the victim. I felt that posting about my friend, and why she thinks background checks are important, was pertinent to having an educated discussion on relationships, when they get serious, trust, interpersonal skills on knowing if someone is bad or good. I think that it's truelly a shame that women, in a lifestyle that is able to mask preditors of various types, immidiately jump to attack the victim. There are bad women out there as well doing bad things to men. I've seen to many times you share a story about a woman who didn't use a safe word and later ruins a dominants reputation - only to have people back the woman up on why it's ok to do that. Truely mind boggling to me how we humans justify each other's actions. I knew a woman who had not done a play reference, didn't have safe calls, etc. Went to a guy's home to play. Needless to say she ended up with a broken cheek bone, broken ribs, broken arm, and moved away becasue he began stalking her. After the urgence of several of us to post her story and his name to a mailing list she did. What happened after that was AMAZING. Five women were brave enough to come forward publically and tell their story of what he did to them. The went to the police and pressed charges. We see this in the 'vanilla' world all of the time. The victim gets attacked by others. So future victims live with the wrong doing rather than get help because of fear of being attacked. This thread wasn't about what a victim she was or how there were signs and she didn't see them. This was about a man, who had a past, who lied, who won her trust, whom she trusted with her life, who broke that trust, who lied about everything, and eventually committed the worst crime ever - molesting their child. There were NO tells that he had that in him. The vanilla world would blame it on kink - but we know that's not true. He was a good con man who did horrible things. Any way, thank you for your posting. It's a shame that women seem so quick to attack another woman who was a victim, rather than discuss what the red flags are. I've seen so many say "she knew, there are signs", yet not offer a single sign as an example. That's why I 've tried to share how he worked the finances. Yet not one other person has responded with their "expertise" on how to see a red flag, just that they are good at judging character. I'm sorry but you don't go through life with out being duped once. I think it's a shame at how many women are quick to judge, yet not so quick to share their knowledge and experience on relationship - be it casual or serious - and how to spot red flags. :) Thanks for playing! ~Em
< Message edited by Emmmrld -- 5/16/2005 10:35:29 PM >
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