Lockit
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What does the average sex offender/child molester or domestic abuser look like? What do they sound like? Are they any different than anyone else? Is your gut right and has it been right every single person you have ever met? You men... have you ever been tossed around a room like a rag doll... held by the throat against a wall... followed, raped... basically vulnerable to size and intent? How many of you have personally run into a mass murder in the course of your daily life? Were they different? Women and children make more likely victims. Anyone that can be seen as weaker, can be. The incidence of handicapped or the ill being abused is much higher than average. It only takes one time of misjudgment, of the gut not working right and you too could be victim. Are we saying that a victim wouldn't have to be a victim if they only had a working gut? We are smarter than the average? Luckier? Stronger? What? What is it exactly that we are saying here? Meeting someone in person your risks go down? If your gut is that good... we need a Minority Report type system and you can be the one that protects the rest of us. What about those that are charming, sometimes very educated, no history of anything and the first time they go off, they murder someone and no one believes it? Could that be you? Could you be near the neighbor down the street that everyone thinks is fine, that likes to teach Sunday School, bring soup to the sick and then does something awful? There are mental illnesses where people seem wonderful, but they have no real feelings for others, but they are notorious for faking them. Would you believe the act or your gut protect you? Sometimes the gut isn't enough. Sometimes whether it be self delusion or distraction or someone getting around your radar, you meet a bad guy. If it is just you involved... okay... you missed something maybe... I will allow for that for a moment... but hey... what about your family? Willing to bring someone home to them? With the high rates of abuse, sexual assault and kidnapping etc? I trust my gut a lot, but my gut can be fooled or wrong. Not often granted... but... I can be wrong. My ex husband was a first time offender... no one believed it. So much so that they blamed me for whatever they thought happened. Too bad, next wife and kids in line. Every single day of my life is left with a reminder of that man. I am so over it... but sometimes, I do think back... three years of marriage... in the ministry... all we did... how he treated me so well and then one day he gets frustrated drinks and drugs and comes home ready for a fight because in over three years he had never done that. Turning point in his life. Same for me. All it took to curve my spine was one touch... or toss. The monster came out, no one believed, Lockit must have done something to him... she was the monster... but I guess now.. the new wife is too. Are you sure you would know? Really? (This was a fast reply!)
< Message edited by Lockit -- 3/23/2011 8:46:36 AM >
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No matter how old a woman gets, some men will think she was born yesterday! ROFL... I love this place!
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