Date: 8 Jun 2009 12:42 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] flarenut
Weird good or weird bad?

When something bad happens to someone else, a lot of people have an almost reflexive response that involves finding things that differentiate them from the person to whom the bad thing happened, so that they can believe that the bad thing won't happen to them. Sometimes the perceived differentiating factors are rational, sometimes they're not, sometimes inbetween.

Depending on one's emotional makeup, it can be pretty difficult to go around thinking of half the population as potential threats, so there's a lot of ground to be gained in not doing so...

(Never been sexually assaulted, have feared it a few times, still have a generalized perception of other men as potentially threatening, probably from having been an undersize-for-grade smart kid.)
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