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eredienLucinda Rosenfeld, you are nominated for winner of the world's worst advice columnist.
You know, I feel kind of sorry for Lucinda if this is her understanding of friendship; I feel even sorrier for her friends (if she has any left after they read her column). The only friends I have who wouldn't come help me if I called them from the hospital at 4 am are ones that live hundreds of miles away, and those would probably send cards and cookies.
What kind of person has the mindset that it's ok to reject a friend because their hospitalization inconveniences you? The 4 am phone call is an opportunity to show friendship, not a reason to reject it! Also, nice default assumption that the woman is lying and/or did something to deserve it.
You know, I feel kind of sorry for Lucinda if this is her understanding of friendship; I feel even sorrier for her friends (if she has any left after they read her column). The only friends I have who wouldn't come help me if I called them from the hospital at 4 am are ones that live hundreds of miles away, and those would probably send cards and cookies.
What kind of person has the mindset that it's ok to reject a friend because their hospitalization inconveniences you? The 4 am phone call is an opportunity to show friendship, not a reason to reject it! Also, nice default assumption that the woman is lying and/or did something to deserve it.
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16/10/09 12:14 (UTC)Mmmm...do you mean the way in which the first thought many folks have with rape is "blame the victim," such that it takes a while for any other thought to filter through their head?
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20/10/09 17:39 (UTC)Did you catch the part where she also kinda implied that part of being a young woman is getting date-rape-drugged?
from the first link:
But only nuns make it out of youth without a few ambulance rides.