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In reply to the discussion: Selling dryer Buyer says he can get it out if I help Fuck it I pick up a side Then I see look on his [View all]mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)93. When my kids were small
I watched a very informative show. People that prey on kids/women are often referred to as monsters. When a well dressed male approaches them with whatever excuse they give to get the victim close enough to grab and abduct they don't run or walk away. That is what they rely on to victimize.
From that day forward I vowed I would teach my kids that "bad people" do not look like the villains they see on TV. They look like everyday normal people.
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Selling dryer Buyer says he can get it out if I help Fuck it I pick up a side Then I see look on his [View all]
jodymarie aimee
Oct 2018
OP
It is advice I do myself. But that's fine. I have been accussed of "victimizing" the OP, which is
still_one
Oct 2018
#43
Thanks cwydro. I need a break from here, and everything else going on right now anyway
still_one
Oct 2018
#52
You have a perfect right to take whatever risks the real world puts in your path
Joe Chi Minh
Oct 2018
#161
This is my last post here, and I am gone. I was giving advice that I give for myself, but instead
still_one
Oct 2018
#50
You did nothing at all to bring this on yourself. We're in a new normal and you ...
marble falls
Oct 2018
#5
The difference is it went from patriarchal (not good but reparable) to depredation ...
marble falls
Oct 2018
#25
I agree. Just like hearing about missing kids. We know instantly a child missing 1000 miles away.
7962
Oct 2018
#96
No, it's always been this bad, women are talking about it a lot more than they used to. nt
raccoon
Oct 2018
#87
You all know this post and it's story are NOT something that happened to the DUer who posted it.
Liberal In Texas
Oct 2018
#68
Um no, his comments amounted to victim blaming. Kinda like how you attempted to smear the OP.
SunSeeker
Oct 2018
#172
What a terrible feeling, that moment where you realize the danger you're in.
TeapotInATempest
Oct 2018
#22
I am glad you did not have a worse outcome. That being said, it was a sexual assault.
58Sunliner
Oct 2018
#24
I totally understand the sizing up, doing the figuring in your head, holding your breath
BlancheSplanchnik
Oct 2018
#28
Your story terrifies me and I am a man with a wife and 2 daughters and 2 sons. I told the story
Pepsidog
Oct 2018
#33
What did your husband do/say when you looked out the window and said it was the guy?
cwydro
Oct 2018
#37
I'm glad you didn't get physically hurt and I'm sorry for the psychological trauma you went through.
iscooterliberally
Oct 2018
#38
Precautions men & women take to avoid being the victim of a violent crime is similar
Kaleva
Oct 2018
#42
Your post implied women and men are equally the victims of violent crime. They're not.
SunSeeker
Oct 2018
#67
Because that's what I do. Why would you want me to lie and say something different?
Kaleva
Oct 2018
#85
You said this to the OP "Thank you for sharing your harrowing ecperience with that perv."
Kaleva
Oct 2018
#117
I'm not going to complain about the OP as the name of the author is in the very 1st line!
Kaleva
Oct 2018
#127
Very true. But she's not responded to any of the questions or expressions of concern.
cwydro
Oct 2018
#133
I've known the OP for a couple of years and I don't think she meant for us to make this mistake.
Kaleva
Oct 2018
#135
Why so hostile to this poster? I asked him questions to, but you seem to have a problem with his
cwydro
Oct 2018
#122
You are all over this thread shitting on the OP with "lol's" - suggesting it is suspect.
SunSeeker
Oct 2018
#136
That doesn't make the OP's content, or the thread discussion, any less valid.
SunSeeker
Oct 2018
#150
The OP is not required to engage. Do you have a problem with the OP content?
SunSeeker
Oct 2018
#134
Every DUer is anonymous. So what? We "correspond" to lots of folks not here.
SunSeeker
Oct 2018
#132
I don't see any post in that thread saying something like "I'm so sorry to hear you have cancer!"
Kaleva
Oct 2018
#138
What are you talking about? It's always been this way. It's just that now women
raccoon
Oct 2018
#99
yes, and the women I have known most always have talked about it. But now that it is more mainstream
logosoco
Oct 2018
#113
My big wish when reading your story was that you were ahead of him on the stairs so you could have
Maraya1969
Oct 2018
#92
I have been single most of my adult life, so I have workmen in the house often.
Honeycombe8
Oct 2018
#141
Why haven't you explained to Honeycombe8 how dangerous it is for there to be a gun in the house?
Kaleva
Oct 2018
#162
I just really have never thought about what we women do, daily, to try and stay safe
meadowlark5
Oct 2018
#142
Yes, as a man I didn't realize this until I thought about it later as an adult...
jimlup
Oct 2018
#154
Assuming you were getting rid of the old dryer because you replaced it with a new one
cstanleytech
Oct 2018
#174