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In reply to the discussion: I refuse to apologize for being male [View all]seabeyond
(110,159 posts)after reading your post, all i want to do is give you a huge ass bear hug of love....
truly
and thank you. thank you for just posting, in the manner you did, so that i am able to better understand you and where you are coming from. honestly, i much prefer and tend to see the good in people, all people. the worst of the worst, shines in good. and i know every person i have a confrontation with, there is also the good of who they are.
i am just so damn impressed with this post, and walking past the hostility to understanding. that impressed.
if i get confrontational with you in the future, whack me up side the head and remind me, talking is a good thing with you. cause with talking comes learning and growth for both of us. that is what is of value.
we have to be able to have our differing opinions without creating the worst of who we are.
in rape, i had a totally opposite experience. it did not hit me. hold onto me. stay with me. and maybe in a way it is cause i am female, and the worst of horror is for a man to experience that helplessness where as women kinda lives it for a long long time in different ways. but, then i know women that are effected like you also, so i hate to minimize their experience. for me? it truly was not about me. i was able to put it behind. and it was not behind the bushes kinda experience.
thank you. i can put away garbage i gave you, and listen to your voice. what you say.
i appreciate it.
peace dude. you left a mark.