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Re: [milesenoell] Unhappy rednecks - what would you have done?:
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happiegrrrl
Aug 16, 2013, 2:32 PM
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milesenoell wrote: happiegrrrl wrote: I don't do well with someone attempting to intimidate me... That is clear from your stories. Not only is responding in kind deplorable and dangerous, it sounds like you actually started both confrontations.
No...
In the first, I accommodated the other person by moving to one side of the sidewalk. I said, to my dog Teddy, "Let's move over..." and it was said in a voice of politeness.
The man responded by stepping directly into our path and moved into a position nearly nose to nose with me.
I in no way instigated that confrontation, unless being a woman or worse a woman with a little dog, existing, is cause for an angry person to feel affronted.
The second one - yes, I unintentionally began that confrontation. Perhaps I could have ignored it. After all, what's it to me if some lady is being harassed by a man.
I'd rather be "deplorable" for standing up to both those people than allow them to intimidate me or another. And if I end up dead because I pointed out a person's disgusting behavior, I would say it was a better way to die than the myriad of ways people go these days.
Your way may be to duck and cover, or of employing non-violent communication or some other way. Mine is to point out the obvious when a person is too blind to see their self. I can live with this aspect of my personality, and as the saying goes..."What someone else thinks of me is none of my business."
(This post was edited by happiegrrrl on Aug 16, 2013, 2:33 PM)
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