[ SECRET POST #2652 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2652 ⌋

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Comments

[elialshadowpine]

Unfortunately, I have to agree with the other folks. The reaction I got was that she was upset that she might have to face consequences and she felt that was unfair. There was also a thread recently where she posted an update (sometime in the past week or two, I think) where she said that she was upset because people at work were avoiding her and walking on eggshells around her which... um. Is kinda to be expected when you do something to that degree?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, do you have a link to that?

[elialshadowpine]

I don't, sorry. :( It was in the GC sometime within the last 2-3wks as far as I know. It was, I believe, posted either at the end of the thread, or at the end of the day, and so it didn't really get much attention. I only saw it because I normally don't get around to checking F!S until about 10pm or later PST.

[diet_poison]

Hm, I did not see that thread so I can't say much on it.

I guess I just got a really different vibe from the entire thread. It reminded me a little bit of when I had my car crash and those few horrible moments where I was afraid I'd seriously hurt someone (fortunately I didn't, both of us walked away from the wreck). That said, it is the internet and voices are very hard to read so I guess we don't really know.

Now that I think about it I probably would have reacted at least a little bit differently. My overriding emotion would have been fear that I'd hurt someone, not fear that I'd be in jail, though that would still certainly be there. Being in jail would suck, but it wouldn't undo the damage done. But we really don't know what she was thinking.

[elialshadowpine]

It wasn't so much the original post as it was the various follow-ups, for me. On the first post, I was willing to look at it, sort of like you describe, as still being stuck in the moment because it was so recent, but the responses over a longer period (and especially the recent one, I wish I had saved that, I didn't realize it was posted so late that most people hadn't seen it) were what bothered me the most. Especially during one of the early but not original posts where it had been a few days and she continued to justify her actions as reasonable. That's where I lost sympathy and looked at the earlier posts in a different light.

Same here. I can't fathom my first response being to throw my cup of coffee. Hell, I've never even splashed someone in the face with water. I just, how the hell is this an instinctive response? I guess that is one of my things with it, because it's an action I can't even see being my first go-to. I can't say I've ever known anyone who that would be true for, either.

And yeah, especially in the following threads, there was a major feeling (to me) of not caring about the other guy. I think she outright said that he was sexually harassing her, he deserved to be blinded. Other people said it but she was definitely saying it too. I mean, it might've been completely unintentional on his part but even if it wasn't HOW IS THAT DESERVING OF HAVING YOUR SIGHT TAKEN AWAY? She continued to show no sympathy for him at all but plenty of worry about if she'd end up in jail. No remorse, no worry for him, none of that. That just had me in WTF-land.

[diet_poison]

I think she outright said that he was sexually harassing her, he deserved to be blinded. There were some (possibly, hopefully, trolly) anons, or maybe just one anon, who did say that. They were off their rocker. I don't remember OP saying that, but for all we know maybe it was all the same person, IDK...

I'm coming to the conclusion that I missed a lot of context and info by not seeing the other follow-up threads. I just saw the ones on the first and second day.

[elialshadowpine]

Yeah I'm pretty sure there were days 3 and maybe 4. I remember it being a multiple day thing. And if you didn't see all of it, I can see where you'd get a very different impression, really. If I hadn't, I'd probably feel much the same way; it was the later stuff that really colored it.

[diet_poison]

Was it the days immediately following the first two threads? I could go look it up.

[elialshadowpine]

I... think so? I'm not 100% sure. My memory is pretty shit after a medication that caused permanent cognitive damage, so I'm hesitant to say "for sure", but it was definitely fairly soon after the original topics.

[diet_poison]

Checked the GC comments for the three days after the follow-up post; found nothing.

Too bad. I guess the reality is I don't have all the information this time.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it may have been radfem!anon who was all over that thread, stanning for coffee!anon and saying that the guy deserved to be blinded, and anyway losing ~only one eye was NBD; but I've also wondered more than once if it was coffee!anon herself.

[diet_poison]

It really could go any way, but my guess would be that coffee!anon was coffee!anon and coffee!anon!stan was a straight-up troll.

[(Anonymous)]

But the difference between you and her is that your first thought was "Oh my God, what if I hurt someone." And while we don't know what was going through her mind at the time, never once in that thread did she express the slightest sense of guilt for her actions or concern for the person that she harmed; it was never "Oh my God, what have I done"--from beginning to end it was "what's going to happen to MEEEEEE! this is so unfair to me."