(11-21-2020, 11:05 PM)RicoTx Wrote: Kids, just knock it off in here.

(11-21-2020, 11:46 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-21-2020, 10:40 PM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote: That’s okay, almost all of one of those users negatives are from you. He just has enough thumbs ups that it didn’t affect his numbers.

I know the story just as well as you.  Negative points just weren't 'done' until someone started giving them out, not you, not me, not those two.  And apparently they weren't talked about either.  Why would they be?  No one else was giving them, no one else was getting them.  Then I started a thread about it.  And even though I was the victim, not the instigator, I got blamed.  People still blame me.

I used to wonder why there are so many societies where people who report rape or sexual abuse are punished further.  Honor killings and stuff like that.  I don't wonder about that anymore.  When someone holds up a mirror, and you don't like what's in the mirror, the easiest thing to do is knock them down so they can't hold the mirror anymore.  If you have the social status to do it, that is what you'll do.  Changing your own self and how you interact with the other influential people in the society is harder.  I'm not equating the bullying I received here to rape, I'm just making a provocative example to illustrate the point.

I mean I'm all for turning over a new leaf and being more jovial and sharing alcoholic beverages, but if y'all keep bringing it up I'll keep telling you what it was and what it says about you.