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Meet girl. Flirt with girl. Go home with girl. Some weeks and much happiness later, for one reason or another end up with the following conversation: "You wer
by mst 17y ago
Meet girl. Flirt with girl. Go home with girl.
Some weeks and much happiness later, for one reason or another end up with the following conversation:
"You were abused, weren't you?"
"Is it really that obvious?"
"No."
... or at least it doesn't seem to be to most people. But after a while of talking to enough people and really listening to them, it becomes easier and easier to spot.
I'm enough of an optimist to still put faith in individual humans but humanity as a whole? Goddamn we suck.
- tome 17y agoI'm not quite sure what you're saying. Is it that you're finding it easier to identify which girls you're in relationships with have been abused?
- sjf 17y agoIf you believe the figures for rape and abuse of women, you could say this to any woman and be right a large percentage of the time.
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- petercooper 17y agoOne of the figures that always floored me was regarding sexual abuse of children generally. I can't remember it now, but it was in the 1 in 10 to 1 in 20 zone. When you extrapolate that to the number of people you know, it's a tad depressing.
- mst 17y agoThe figures get counted all sorts of interesting ways though, which significantly reduces their impact on me, at least (except as a very good set of examples of how statistics can be made to say anything you like). My personal experiences, on the other hand, suggest percentages which seem rather more realistic but still scare the shit out of me.