The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: victim

  • Wounded Fish Attract Sharks

    If you act like you’re wounded, you;re going to get attacked.

  • Let Someone Else Deal with It

    How do you walk past a bleeding man?

  • It’s Okay to Ask for Help

    If no one ever needed help, societies wouldn’t have been invented.

  • Seals Will Be Seals

    Trust me, you don’t want to be a penguin on Marion Island.

  • Tall Tale Tellers

    I’ve worked with several pathological liars in my lifetime. It’s a mental disorder that I struggle to understand, because there seems to be no emotional payoff. Do these people not realize that for the most part, everyone can see right through them? They’re certainly confronted enough. This causes them not to be trusted, and their…

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts

    I absolutely hate being told that I’m overreacting. Unless you’ve walked a mile in my shoes, you don’t even know what I’m reacting to, Buddy-Roo. You have no freakin’ idea. That’s why it’s so annoying to hear men downplay the whole #MeToo movement. “It was JUST a little slip of the hand. You can’t even…

  • Nails

    One of my rear tires was looking slightly flat. Again. It would never lose enough pressure to set off alarm bells in my mind, but it really was starting to annoy me. The gas station’s mechanic must have seen me muttering to myself at the air pump, and he came over to investigate. He offered…

  • One Slap at a Time

    I am convinced that the reason so many violent and/or abusive people in this world get away with their bad behavior is that we have a tendency to break things down into separate incidents. If you look at a wife beater’s conduct one slap at a time, for example, it should still be considered unacceptable,…

  • Drop Dead? Really?

    We all come with baggage if we’ve actually made an effort to live our lives. Mine includes staying in a 16 year relationship that made me, for the most part, really unhappy. Don’t get me wrong. He was a really good guy. And we did have our good times. That’s why I stayed so long. That…

  • “Look at me! I’m miserable!”

    I used to know someone who would never, ever smile in photographs. He said it was because he looked funny when he smiled, but he didn’t look any funnier than the rest of the world. If you looked at his vacation photos, you’d swear he always had a horrible time. But I think it was…