FilmFestGuy
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- Joined
- Dec 13, 2009
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- Nashville, TN
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- Slightly Liberal
If you accept ffguy's non-victim mentality and i do. There is nothing out of the normal offensive about this.
I appreciate what you're saying, but to claim that I am the same as a NAMBLA member - that's a little over the line and I'm not an easily offended person. The things I would be posting in his private message box would make a drill sergeant blush if it weren't against the rules and my moral values. The best I can hope for is that Heavy Duty finds a way to actually understand people who have actually suffered at the hands of others instead of pretending that revenge fantasies work in real life.
Revenge plots and getting people back decades later make for entertaining movie plots. In real life, the justice is sadly never that poetic (thus the victim getting jailed for beating up his perp).
And look, I know now I should have said something when I was a kid. But the problem is 8 and 9-year-olds don't really have the perspective that young adults and full-grown adults do. I spent years running away from it. It took more than a decade to face up to it and then get past it and have the great life I have. There's nothing I can do about what happened almost 30 years ago, so why bother? Again, I hope to God that no other child has been harmed. Since my perp was younger, the odds of therapy working are actually stronger and as far as I know he's not been arrested for any later abuses nor has he shown up on any notification lists (believe me, I checked once when I went back to my hometown after he returned there).