ApolloBalboa
Was King of the Board for a Day
I remember in high school that they had a assembly for all the girls, in which some woman's right's group representative or something among those lines came and talked to everyone there. I later asked one of my friends that was a girl how it had been, and she said it was somewhat enlightening. She told me that the main point in a girl defending herself is the word "no", which to me makes a lot of sense. No one can make you (technically) do anything you want to when you say "no", but it seems that Erin Moore either didn't or wouldn't, when that may have helped her some in whatever situation she might have found herself in. If you find yourself in with the wrong type of crowd or situation, whose responsibility is it to either extricate yourself completely or find a way to make the best of it? Yours, and yours alone, nobody is going do it for you.
I can sympathize with everything that she says that she dealt with, but as many people have noted before me, I detect a distinct lack of responsibility on her part. Nobody forced you to take those drugs, to stay with an abusive partner, to continue working even though you were pregnant, you were ultimately the one who decided to undertake each and every one of those actions, even if it seemed otherwise. The sooner you can admit your part in those, the sooner you can come to terms with yourself.
I feel like some people forget the difference between coercion and absolute force sometimes. This seems like a case in point.
I can sympathize with everything that she says that she dealt with, but as many people have noted before me, I detect a distinct lack of responsibility on her part. Nobody forced you to take those drugs, to stay with an abusive partner, to continue working even though you were pregnant, you were ultimately the one who decided to undertake each and every one of those actions, even if it seemed otherwise. The sooner you can admit your part in those, the sooner you can come to terms with yourself.
I feel like some people forget the difference between coercion and absolute force sometimes. This seems like a case in point.