Comment Re:Finally got to me. (Score 1) 319
"Anyone have their familiy not get it or actually turn on you for telling them the truth? "
Yes.
I've been discussing the with my wife for the past week; we don't see eye to eye either. I printed out the two previous Jon Katz posts to help explain how so many of us feel, and like yours, my wife made it through the first of 14 pages and left it alone.
She explains that she was teased during her school years but never felt the need to kill and I tried to relate the stories of what my friends and I went through day after day - the physical torture, whole classrooms joining in with chants of "Give me a D-E-F-E-C-T", being pelted with rocks (the list goes on and on), and when we finally had enough and tried to stand up for ourselves we were told that we were wrong, that we needed to forgive and forget.
I think I may have been able to at least explain my point of view, but I doubt she, or others like her who never had to survive it, could ever truly understand.
Yes.
I've been discussing the with my wife for the past week; we don't see eye to eye either. I printed out the two previous Jon Katz posts to help explain how so many of us feel, and like yours, my wife made it through the first of 14 pages and left it alone.
She explains that she was teased during her school years but never felt the need to kill and I tried to relate the stories of what my friends and I went through day after day - the physical torture, whole classrooms joining in with chants of "Give me a D-E-F-E-C-T", being pelted with rocks (the list goes on and on), and when we finally had enough and tried to stand up for ourselves we were told that we were wrong, that we needed to forgive and forget.
I think I may have been able to at least explain my point of view, but I doubt she, or others like her who never had to survive it, could ever truly understand.
