Conversation

Had the opportunity to tell a woman her actions contributed to her consequences.

Here’s the story:

She won’t place any blame (i.e. call for change) on her 16-year-old daughter who ran away with a high school employee–because it the daughter has been “raped” (statutory rape–ran away with her “love”). I agree that the daughter was manipulated by the employee, just as it can be seen that daughter was malleable for the manipulation. (Gee, maybe we should face that.)

This woman then tries this line, thinking a good person wouldn’t say the same of her own experience to her face: “So you think I should hold some responsibility for when I was fourteen and the man who raped me (she slept with) came back a second time and offered GIFTS and I accepted them?!?”

“Yes.”

They are unwilling to process that bad decisions contribute to bad situations. Instead, they just want to blame the presence of bad actors (so long as using social media accepted/available categories).