Beaten up, but not beaten down

[dglenn]

Well, it finally happened. I got physically bashed.

I wandered out to try to figure out which direction the thumpy

Comments

[thespian]

fuck. I'm so glad you're ok. There are times when eye for an eye seems cryingly right to me; especially when it's my friends.

I have a nice bounce flash I can get out of storage for you, and I think a non-bounce. I haven't used them in years, so I need to see if I can find them, but they're standard SLR base (both about 10 years old). Will you be at Baitcon? If not I can suspects courier it to you.

[realinterrobang]

Holy crispy crap... I think you should also get checked out, just to make sure you're ok. Pain under the shoulder blade could in fact be internal injuries of some sort.

I think I'll be calling Andrea tomorrow, to see about checking up on you. In the meantime, ice, rest, and Perrine.

[redaxe]

*hug* I'm glad you're at least somewhat functional. If there's anything I can do, please tell me.

May they rot impaled on pungee sticks. And that's the nicest thing I can think of for them.

Go get prepared; learn martial arts and/or get armed. And if you need to, kick some coccyx.

May you never ever need to.

[bardling]

Having been pointed here by another filker - I'm very sorry to hear this happened to you, I'm sorry to hear that things like this happen at all, to anyone and are apparently thought of as "ok" by those attackers & people like them/they interact with.

I second the "get yourself checked out properly" advice to make sure you've not got unnoticed-as-yet internal injuries.

I'm concerned this has you thinking about going armed, as I don't believe that will solve anything. I'm relieved your attackers at least did not have/use knives or guns.
But the problem is the attitude that it's ok to beat up someone considered "weird". It is not. It should never be, even if all society agrees on what is "weird". You should never have had to even THINK about whether it's better to go armed.

*sighs* I'm sorry this happened to you & wish you well for recovery both internal and external.

Hugs

[unix_vicky]

I'm so sorry that happened to you. So far, I've been lucky, but I'm not conceited enough to think it's anything more than luck. Close calls, yes, but no actual violence. I also don't have a lot of confidence in the police doing the right thing, even down here in DC where they have a Gay specialty sqaud (I forget the correct name for it).