After reading this story called “what happens when violence knocks and politeness answers?”, it really made me think about what i would i do if i were to be in that same situation. First of all, I know that if i dont know who is at the door, i dont answer it…which can make a huge difference b/c you never know who is gonna be at the door these days…b/c there are some crazy and sick people in this world. Also, i think i would have handled the situation differently too. If for some reason, the guy did manage to come into my house, i deffinitely wouldn’t let him get away with what he was doing without a fight. I guess that’s just my way of showing respect for myself and my body. Im not just going to let some random guy rape me, and enjoy it, he’s going to be suffering just as much as me. I would do everything in my power to try to stop him from getting the pleasure that he is after.
The girl in this story was really starting to make me mad about 2 sentences into the story….I’m sorry but if some boy was jabbing me with a pencil every 5 seconds, ill be damned if he doesn’t get jabbed back. There’s no way i would let someone do that to me. It obviously screwed up her mind mentally, and really stayed with her for the rest of her life. Sometimes in life you just HAVE to be rude to some people or they won’t leave you alone. They’ll get that power over you that they’ve been craving for. I’m generally a nice person, but if someone makes me mad, they pretty much know it. I can’t stand to let someone walk all over me without having anything to say. Thats just human nature to me i guess, and i think thats how everyone should be. Don’t let other people get you down and ruin your day.
The fact that this woman in the story didn’t think that her own rapist deserved more than 35 years in jail is just crazy to me. I would be trying to put that man away for the rest of his life if something like that happened to me, i wouldn’t let them get away with it at all. Rape is a very serious thing and can really ruin someones life, i just dont understand how the woman in the story didnt see that at the time. I realize that it did effect her in life later on, but it only made her more afraid of the fact that something could happen to her instead of knowing that she did everything she could to do something about it and keep on living her life normally instead of in fear.
