A couple weeks ago, I came home to find police at my neighbor's apartment. Going inside, I found out that evidently a woman screamed and the police came. The women who were with us then began to talk about it for the hour until Brian and I just left to visit our other neighbors (we wanted to have a good time, not blindly gossip). Later the girls came over and grilled our other neighbors. Through this they found out that Alison (the girl who screamed) had told her boyfriend that 'if he touched her one more time she'd call the cops'.
The girls took this as complete validation and justification of their suspicions and continued gossiping about the event for the next two hours. Finally, Brian and I piqued up saying to cut out the gossip, that we didn't know anything more than secondary and tertiary information and that we shouldn't go meddling in other people's business unless asked.
To this, Jaime responded that when a woman screams it's everyone's problem.
-Frankly, no. No it doesn't. As a male in this society, we've been conditioned to put our heads down and ignore this. FOR GOOD REASON. The courts of this society do not favor males. We need to be very careful how we handle ourselves. If I were there to hear the scream would I have gone over to investigate with one other person? Perhaps. Would I have done it alone? Probably not. But I wasn't there. Will I butt in on someone else's business over tertiary information? No.
The girls didn't seem to grasp this and kept on gossiping over those events, spying on the neighbors, and making assumptions. Fuck that. If you want your information so god-damn bad, ask them. Don't go around their backs and insult a guy who you don't know. You don't know the situation and you don't know jack shit other than the police showed up.
A couple weeks ago, I came home to find police at my neighbor's apartment. Going inside, I found out that evidently a woman screamed and the police came. The women who were with us then began to talk about it for the hour until Brian and I just left to visit our other neighbors (we wanted to have a good time, not blindly gossip). Later the girls came over and grilled our other neighbors. Through this they found out that Alison (the girl who screamed) had told her boyfriend that 'if he touched her one more time she'd call the cops'.
The girls took this as complete validation and justification of their suspicions and continued gossiping about the event for the next two hours. Finally, Brian and I piqued up saying to cut out the gossip, that we didn't know anything more than secondary and tertiary information and that we shouldn't go meddling in other people's business unless asked.
To this, Jaime responded that when a woman screams it's everyone's problem.
-Frankly, no. No it doesn't. As a male in this society, we've been conditioned to put our heads down and ignore this. FOR GOOD REASON. The courts of this society do not favor males. We need to be very careful how we handle ourselves. If I were there to hear the scream would I have gone over to investigate with one other person? Perhaps. Would I have done it alone? Probably not. But I wasn't there. Will I butt in on someone else's business over tertiary information? No.
The girls didn't seem to grasp this and kept on gossiping over those events, spying on the neighbors, and making assumptions. Fuck that. If you want your information so god-damn bad, ask them. Don't go around their backs and insult a guy who you don't know. You don't know the situation and you don't know jack shit other than the police showed up.
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