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Old Nov 26, 2009, 10:48 PM
imapatient imapatient is offline
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Originally Posted by deliquesce View Post
re: the common experience we have of being taken advantage of over a number of occassions, even by complete strangers. i am not easy with laying all the responsibility on the other person, because even if they are excellent at reading & exploiting my vulnerability, then surely it means that it is something about me that encourages their behaviour.
In another person you'd see this as blaming the victim. When a person is assaulted, does it mean that something about them encouraged the behavior of the one assaulting them?
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