It would explain so much of Elle's defensiveness, and my ire towards people who just write her off as a bitch.
It's just, I have been physically assaulted in the past (fortunately, it was not sexual assault though I was really terrified of it at the time), and I know people who have suffered abuse and/or were assaulted or grew up marginalized* , and I wish I remember the article, but there was one which specifically talk about how often society further marginalize victims while condoning and accepting their predators - because the victims were acting crazy while the predators were normal.
But umm....if serial predators like Ted Bundy wasn't so normal, they wouldn't be so successful.
...and, are scars not the consequences of injury? ...and how fair is it that those that are scarred are shunned more than the ones who have cut them?
It's just, personal trigger button of mine I guess.
* I think fearing the authority figures doesn't make you a bad kid when said authority figures zoom in on you because they think you are a bad kid, I know this guy who was black when everyone else was white or asian, and teachers do this to him, I don't know if were conscious of it, but they do it, act like he's a scary black guy when he's like, a completely harmless weetabo (except black) straight out of megatokyo. He was at times a jerk in a dudebro sort of way, but I have never felt intimidated by him, his wrist fits between my fingers! He did this half scream once when he was surprised. Yet some authority figures zoom in on him as if he's ghetto, when he probably don't know where the ghettos are. I didn't know why he was so skittish about authority figures until I saw the vice principal doing it. Maybe he'll draw on his desk, but he's hardly the only one, and they didn't have to zoom in on him like he was dangerous.
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I totally count it as canon
Date: Dec. 21st, 2011 01:17 am (UTC)It's just, I have been physically assaulted in the past (fortunately, it was not sexual assault though I was really terrified of it at the time), and I know people who have suffered abuse and/or were assaulted or grew up marginalized* , and I wish I remember the article, but there was one which specifically talk about how often society further marginalize victims while condoning and accepting their predators - because the victims were acting crazy while the predators were normal.
But umm....if serial predators like Ted Bundy wasn't so normal, they wouldn't be so successful.
...and, are scars not the consequences of injury? ...and how fair is it that those that are scarred are shunned more than the ones who have cut them?
It's just, personal trigger button of mine I guess.
* I think fearing the authority figures doesn't make you a bad kid when said authority figures zoom in on you because they think you are a bad kid, I know this guy who was black when everyone else was white or asian, and teachers do this to him, I don't know if were conscious of it, but they do it, act like he's a scary black guy when he's like, a completely harmless weetabo (except black) straight out of megatokyo. He was at times a jerk in a dudebro sort of way, but I have never felt intimidated by him, his wrist fits between my fingers! He did this half scream once when he was surprised. Yet some authority figures zoom in on him as if he's ghetto, when he probably don't know where the ghettos are. I didn't know why he was so skittish about authority figures until I saw the vice principal doing it. Maybe he'll draw on his desk, but he's hardly the only one, and they didn't have to zoom in on him like he was dangerous.