In addition to being disgusting, it just shows a basic lack of understanding as to how human beings tick.
One of the posters here who's the most vocal about calling the women "disgusting" etc. shared that they didn't report a rape that happened to them when they were younger...and it's like, Okay, you didn't report this same crime in East Nowhere, Nebraska, but you expect these women to take on one of the most powerful men in Hollywood??
So many of the posts about this case are from people who haven't even read the in depth articles about the attacks. They just react to what their fantasies of the happenings are...it's very strange.
In that article, Daryl Hannah says “I called all the powers that be and told them what had happened...and it didn’t matter. I think that it doesn’t matter if you’re a well-known actress, it doesn’t matter if you’re twenty or if you’re forty, it doesn’t matter if you report or if you don’t, because we are not believed. We are more than not believed—we are berated and criticized and blamed.”
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godewey (16472)
7 years ago
Many of the people who judge this obviously haven't had to deal with this issue in their life.
This is a good thing. Still not right to judge people on what they do or don't do.
Nobody knows what they would do in this situation unless it happened to them.
If this person who says it happened to them is telling the truth then they are a total hypocrite.
Telling other people what they should have done when they couldn't even do it themselves.
That might even be worse. Why is it so hard to show empathy?
Have we all become so numb to this that we don't see it?
Sometimes people really suck.
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Cookie.L.A. (2117)
7 years ago
I tend to classify people who are so unthinking as either unbalanced, or remarkably jeuvenile. So I have to remind myself not to reply to them in great depth. (It's like, "Okay, I don't have time to lead you through Human Psychology 101...and it's not going to make any impression on you, anyway.") They just need to grow up and get a better grasp on life .. or, maybe they simply never will. But it is weirdly disconcerting.
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Otter (24464)
7 years ago
People like that have either never been tested, and like to think they'd be super-brave, or they're total cowards and are basely insisting that everyone else is worse than they are.
Both groups are horribly thoughtless towards victims of crimes, if not actually cruel.
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