The Batlord

You were not attacked. You were jacked.

Men do just fine without them.

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ladyislingering

And how is trying to steal my purse NOT an attack on my safety, happiness, comfort and physical/personal space?

Don't be so dense. It's not attractive.

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Frownland

Attack suggests that some form of physical assault occurred, normally it isn't used when someone threatens intangible concepts. Stop being so dense.

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fiddler

Okay so it sounds like that you're feeling more violated - your personal security etc than actually ticked over the attempt to steal your purse. Have you considered self defense classes? Just curious, tis all.

Janszoon

I guess in the minds of extremely melodramatic people it's all the same thing. And 15 year olds should be killed over it, apparently.

Being reasonable = being dense. Got it.

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This might be the worst post I've ever seen on this site.

ladyislingering

I didn't have time to react. That idiot literally just WENT for it in a matter of seconds, as if he was planning it the entire time. In a more ideal situation it would have given me great pleasure to trip him, but no such luck.

I'm not "melodramatic". My safety and belongings were threatened and violated by some punk-ass kid whose mama needs to slap the shit out of him - or let someone else do it. Preferably the police. It was a terrifying, senseless encounter and I have no mercy or pity for whatever happens to that asshole child.

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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DwnWthVwls

I'm sure if men carried around purses all willy nilly people would do grab and runs on them too.. Men get pickpocketed, women get their giant ass bag of useless bullshit stolen. One happens to require more finesse than brute force.

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ladyislingering

That's true, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that if I carried a small handgun on my body, that altercation would have been over before that idiot even reached the crosswalk. While he did drop my purse after being intercepted by a kind passenger, I still wanted to string the kid up from a tree and beat him senseless.

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The Batlord

Your belongings were violated. All the other things are whiny bull****. You JUST said that it happened too quickly for you to be able to stop him, so logically speaking, he did not have the time to threaten you in any way, shape, or form. Quit playing the martyr and shrug it off like an adult.

Innocent my ass. You are vindictive and cruel to a Saturday morning cartoon villain level. Of the two of you, you are easily behaving the most reprehensible, and a good parental, five-across-the-eyes might be in order to get you to start thinking like a human being.

Oh, Jesus Christ. A.) Don't play the sexism card. It's bull****, and you're just using it as an excuse to avoid responsibility for showing complete disregard for human life... over a ****ing purse! B.) About the purse, if there's anything sex related here, it's that a man wouldn't have to deal with this, because for the most part we don't carry purses. Boom. Male supremacy.

And you would have been arrested and charged with murder over killing a purse snatcher. And you'd deserve it too.

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