Casteele
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Joined: 12/10/2011 From: Near Sacramento, California, USA Status: offline
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Regarding "Fake" and the last couple of posts.. Whenever someone tosses the word "fake" out there, I've recently begun to use a little more critical thinking. Is the context and reasons plainly obvious? If not, does the person give a valid and good reason for the claim? And here's where the critical thinking really plays a part.. The scenario: "John" calls "Jane" a fake. When asked why John thinks Jane is a fake, he states that she misled him by claiming that she was interested in meeting up for a casual fling/ONS, but when he took her up on the offer and asked her where and what time to meet up, she declined and stopped speaking to him. So, is Jane a fake? I am willing to bet that if this happened elsewhere without the suspicious mindset already present in a thread and question like this, a lot of people would sympathize with poor John at getting so obviously trolled by this fake hussy named Jane. But the truth is that we don't have enough information to know for certain. We lack any credible evidence, and honestly, only have John's account of what happened. But let's give John the benefit of the doubt and say he didn't just make it up to make Jane look bad, that he's giving an honest account of what happened. Now, can we say Jane is fake? No, we still cannot. We still only have John's one-sided perception of what really happened. We do not know the exact exchange of words, what was said, how it was said, and we do not know what went on in either John or Jane's minds. For all we know, John could have misinterpreted something Jane said because he really, really wanted to believe that he was going to get lucky tonight. So in his eyes, she's the fake because he made an expectation of her that may or may not have been reasonable and/or true. But it could also be simply that he's the one who misled himself, and once she realized this and what he was all about and wanted, she backed out before it got any worse. So let's say Jane came on and said that yes, she told him she was interested in a casual fling, but when it came down to actually following through and doing it, she realized she wasn't ready or didn't really want to, and tried to back out of it. Now, this time.. We still cannot call Jane a fake with absolute certainty :-P Not unless she's shown a pattern of doing this same thing. People make mistakes, they do stupid things, they can sometimes be immature and irresponsible, and they change their minds. One bit of advice I see quite often here is that the women here are human beings, and should be treated as such, etc etc. Truth is, just about every one here is, even the "fakes", misfits, socially inept, and yes, even those horrible people we see that come here and say "Me Dom, you slave, you get naked, me screw you, everyone happy" are still human beings behind the screen. Just some of the random thoughts I had while reading things. What you take from it or how you interpret it is up to you. (For myself, I am seeing just how ugly I can be when I do the same things, and hope I can learn to become a better person.)
< Message edited by Casteele -- 1/10/2012 11:46:18 PM >
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