I was going through the feeds on my RSS reader and was speechless after reading the comment quoted here.
“I wonder why the lady slept without locking her door at night? She was renting a room, so she should have been wise to lock the door.
Just curious about such a suspicious circumstance. She was like inviting trouble. No doubt the landlord should not have opened her door, but why she took such a risk to ruin a man and his family?”
It is not wrong to say that the lady was careless and that she had no threat awareness, but the above comment goes even further. It actually puts the blame on the victim for what has been done.
I won’t go further to give examples on just how absurdly wrong the above comment was. Alice has given several examples already. What the hell makes anyone think that for women who has no threat awareness or those who are simply being careless deserved what is coming for them?
Anyway, I would not not quite agree with Alice when she said ‘this exactly shows how the moral of the society has deteriorated’. But I can understand where she is coming from (even when I am no paragon of virtue), after I read the posts from Jean on my RSS reader, and went through some of the the comments and a link to Sammyboy’s forum in one of Jean’s post here.
All I want to say is, being a strong believer of retribution (or poetic justice), my opinion is that the only way people like these can be shown just how wrong they are, is to have some crime or wrong done (or some mishaps happening) to them as a result of their own carelessness. Then, some other person should come around and made a similarly insensitive remark.
I sincerely do hope they are made up of sterner stuff and won’t go about whining like a wimp at hust how insensitive those comments are when it happens to them.
A fine example of retribution (or poetic justice) would be having made prank calls, one gets a series of nuisance calls in return…