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Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
and while you're kickin' it and having a good time together, all of a sudden you think "what if this guy is a rapist?"

this happens to me all the fuckin time. i try to push the thought out of my brain because it's hard to keep thinking it and still have a good conversation, even just a pleasant one i guess, but i mean, i just met this guy. he seems cool and i could see us being pals, heck, even the type of pals who go on vacations with each others' families (not big ones like visiting australia but like a little camping trip maybe etc.) but back in college i learned about things called statistics that basically says some people are just gonna be rapists, no ifs ands or buts, so how can you just assume that everyone YOU make friends with isn't one of those people? what if as soon as we friend each other on facebook so we can get together later in the week and jam and we bid each other a good night and leave the bar, he goes to the alley behind the supermarket and just starts raping? and then next time i see him he's just banging away on a djembe drum talking about how we really found a good groove but really he's just thinking about raping again. how can i ever be sure? can we ever really know anybody? it's heady poo poo but i think it's stuff we gotta consider sometimes.


what stuff sometimes makes you nervous or uncomfortable when you're meeting new people? only serious replies please because i think we need a place to discuss this stuff because it's real stuff, man.

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Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Lawrence Gilchrist posted:

yo op I met someone that, when she brought new people over, she would come up with some excuse to take their picture with her laptop so if they turned out to be an ax murderer the image would be in the aether. she was really cool and effortless about it and i admired it as such

clever girl

I.C. posted:

OP, are you scared you might rape someone?

no, just that a seemingly chill dude will turn out to be a raper of others. like i guess he could be a murderer too but rape seems more hosed up to me psychologically that murder i guess. like i found out someone i knew did a murder i'd be like "huh that's hosed up" but if i found out they did rapes i'd be like "drat that's hosed up" and there's a big difference between the two reactions. even worse i guess is stuff with kids but i think my mind won't even let me consider poo poo that dark because it's trying to save itself from that awful yucky feeling it would bring up, like the ones you get when you read go back and aatrek posts about that little girl from kick-rear end

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Blue Train posted:

gatekeeper let's get drunk I "promise" I "won't" rape you

see, this is actually a good example. you're the dude who asked me to paint eric dorner, mumia abu jamal, and ice-t standing on the mountain of dead cops with the "bring back lf" banner, right? that alone fits most of my criteria of "dude i'd probably get along with" but who knows what terrible things you've done

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
no worries bud, i think its good to have honest frank discussions about our thoughts and fears sometimes

I.C. posted:

You think rape is worse than murder?

i didn't say worse, just spookier. its like a murder where the corpse is still alive and has to remember it afterwards

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

I.C. posted:

I mean…some people just show you what they want you to see.

like there was a show called dexter that i found really spooky because this guy seemed like this super nice handsome cool dude who was a pretty good guy but no, it turns out he was just pretending so no one knew he murdered. he never raped though. the audience always rooted for him because he was a cool murderer but i bet if he raped people wouldn't have been so cool with him

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
he's always frowning :(


i guess whats scary isn't that anyone is capable of being a monster, it's just scary to think that you became buddies with one. your buddies should be far out, they shouldn't be monsters

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Noblesse Obliged posted:

I think the same thing while browsing the post your picture thread in pyf.

it's a head trip, right? the whole idea of talking to people over the internet is far loving out to me anyway, but when you notice one goon who has a good name and a cool av (like maybe a reference to a cool thing not a lot of people know about) and they post primo posts about good stuff that you like, sometimes you just gotta wonder: is this goon a rapist?

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
poo poo, man, if you think abut it you could even be related to a rapist. people find out that their dads or uncles etc. were rapists or murderers all the time. can you imagine that? you're like 30 and all of a sudden you find out that your beloved father hosed all of your friends when you were 11 and has now moved on to your son's friends, or has been renting a storage container that he's used as a "murder studio" for his "blood art" since before you were born? and you only ever find out if they've been caught. if they never get caught, they just keep on raping and you never know it every time you give them a hug or tell them you love them.

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
your dad could have a secret rape-bridge at this very moment, like a bridge on a star trek but just for rape

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
in a figurative snap of the fingers anyone could become a rapist :spooky:

how does the universe pick who rapes? i'm afraid that it's like a werewolf bite and then on full moons i'll be overwhelming compelled to rape, no way to stop me

Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

please don't get bitten by reddit

reddit is probably the rape-werewolf, imo

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Gatekeeper
Aug 3, 2003

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
wow even though the control tower really chewed out maverick for flying that joke by waaay too low, it still went over my head :(

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