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Originally Posted by ladyislingering
I just happen to have very strong feelings about being treated like a human being worthy of being respected well enough for worthless thugs to realize that they shouldn't be trying to steal **** from innocent young ladies who have never done one goddamn thing to them.
Just because you, a man, have the privilege of being able to do as you please without even the slightest worry that some asshole's gonna try to mess with you just because they think they can get away with it or that they're entitled to whatever you have that they want, doesn't mean you have any sensible reason to dismiss my reaction to what happened to me. Take a seat.
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I agree. You should be treated like a human. So should the kid who tried to steal your purse. I really don't think it's appropriate in almost any context to spell out the various ways you wish you could kill somebody, especially somebody who is basically a child, but if it were a reaction to actual trauma I'd get it. Here, somebody tried to steal your purse and then he dropped it within like thirty seconds, and instead of taking your purse and going about your day (maybe after notifying the police), you were like "I WANT HIM DEAD"
I'm dismissing your reaction not because nobody has ever tried to mess with me (by the way, I don't understand why you don't think people think they can get away with stealing stuff from me or assaulting me or whatever - I'm a 15-year-old who walks with a slight but noticeable limp, I'm slightly shorter than average and I'm seriously underweight. I'd be a very easy target), but because I don't think that having such a callous attitude toward other people's lives ought to be acceptable, nor do I think that casually using ableist slurs because you don't like somebody ought to be acceptable.
If you don't see valuing the lives of humans as "sensible" (yes, even humans who tried to steal somebody's purse once when they were kids), then I don't think we have anything else to talk about.