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[bubosquared]

.... Irish bloke across the aisle is singing Elvis. o_O Oh hey, now they're whistling Christmas songs, that's better!

Also, er, I bought some more smelly stuff off kaitoujeanne:

• Anne Bonny: A blend of Indonesian red patchouli, red sandalwood, and frankincense. Mmmm, pirates. Also, exotic!
• Fae: A brilliant, ethereal scent: white musk, bergamot, heliotrope, peach and oakmoss. Bit of a gamble, because I have a knee-jerk "Ew!" reaction to any musk scent, especially white musk, but Cleo liked it, so I'll give it a go.
• Lolita: Bright, sweet and youthful, but swelling with a poisonous sexuality. Glittering heliotrope, honeysuckle, orange blossom and lemon verbena. Oh, right, like I was't gonna end up trying this one just for the name. :D
• O (Because I can't wait for my CnS, no.)
• Florence: The pearl of the Italian Renaissance. Elegant iris, bright berries, gilded amber and velvety spices. (Gender neutral) Definitely a name-based decision again. Mmm, Italy.
• Honey Moon: can't find description on the site, since it's no longer in stock, but Deo liked it a lot, so I figured 'd better snatch it up while I had a chance.

Shaddup, I know.

Linkspam of Righteous WTFery: one, two.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Seriously, and you know, I can see on some level she should've refused to even start that shit, but she's a teenaged girl and he was her boss, and frankly, why are people not asking WTF HE was doing listening to some "cop" on the phone telling him to strip a teenaged girl naked.

[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

I think -- I think -- at the age I am now, I would be able to go "no, this is stupid, see how stupid you are being" and get myself out of such a situation, but I don't think at 16 I could have. I think I would have done almost the same as her -- worse, even, maybe, because at least she did think to say "take me to a police station". I -- really, just -- I have a lot of trouble with the whole thing, because the fiancee guy, what he did to her (by order of the guy on the phone) was sick, but by all reports, he's just normal. My brain says he should not be normal, because a normal person would have seen that the situation was so very, very wrong.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I think I would have caused more of a fuss, probably, but that's because my parents are/were exceptionally "Fight the power! Don't accept authority just because it's authority!" and really, I can't say that people who don't raise their kids that way are not as good as parents as mine, and their kids definitely don't "deserve" to be treated like thi.

And you know, I'd skimmed over the bit about her asking to be taken to the station--because that actually buts this in a different light still. Because you know, that would have been my first reaction, and we don't know exactly how scary or intimidating the guy was in reaction to that, so. Yeah, I suspect that I probably would actually have reacted the same.

As to the guy's normality ... it may be that the guy only seemed normal because he'd never had a chance to pull this shite with "official sanction"--or rather, with a conventient excuse. I ... I think I kinda have to believe, for the sake of my own sanity, that he knew the situation was fucked-up but went along with it because it provided him a convenient excuse once he got caught. I hope. Because I can't not believe that most people would refuse to go along with that crap. (I know, there's several cases known, but that's because most people would get that call and just hang up, because dude, obvious prank call much, so the cases where it didn't work were just never reported.)

[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

My parents were pretty good with the whole "don't let people do things to you you don't want them to," and I mean in terms of anything, but you know, teenagers are kind of messy in the head, or I was anyway. I'm still not sure I can say I would have been able to get out of that (of course, I am also very small. Like, absurdly small. This factors in to the way I react to potentially violent situations quite heavily -- if someone wants to hold me down, or toss me into a wall, or break my skinny twig-like arms, it's gonna happen.)

I really want to believe that about that guy as well -- I kind of hope that, but... I don't know. Coupled with my decreasing view of humanity as a whole (though not as individuals, generally) and the thing where the first thing he did when he got home -- before anyone even really knew what he'd done -- was ring up a friend and say that he'd felt he'd done something really wrong...

...

though honestly, even if he is a nice and good guy who just gave in to those dark urges within humanity, I still think he should be prosecuted as a rapist, or a... kidnapper? I don't know, something to do with robbing someone of their liberty and rights, because no matter what else, he did it and he shouldn't have. And if he was just a normal guy, possibly I never want to go outside my house again, ever. =_=