things non knife people say .. a different take

[Myal]

I have some friends who are into alternative lifestyle in their private time . The kinda alternative that leaves rope marks ,bruises and welts .
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One of these girls was wearing a little less than usual because its dam hot here right now , and she was showing some marks on the backs of her thighs .

While she was fueling up her car , an elderly lady approached and asked VERY seriously , if she was ok . My friend said "yes thanks why ? "

Then she realised the older lady was looking at the marks . She goes all kinds of red and says "oh .. that was consensual , but thank you for caring . "

I asked her why she thanked the older lady , it seemed odd to me ,till my friend pointed out that her bruises could well have been from a beating not from "play" the old lady was full ready to put herself out to help her if it was the case , where a bunch of guys had been almost drooling over her and said nothing .

Domestic violence is a pretty big issue at times .

I was thinking about that and a kind of parallel in the knife community - the threads that pop up now and then about stupid things non knife people say , and yeah I had added my bit to those threads...

But now Im thinking , you know , with the number of glassings , king hits stabbings and shootings that are in the news .. ( when the news isnt bushfires or floods anyway ) maybe having these "sheeples" around to make a fuss isnt that bad .

They may be uneducated , maybe they take alarm at an innocent speed deployment of a ninja 900+ tacticool eviscorator to cut a thread on a pants leg or to open a box in the normal course of a shelf stackers work .. but they have the balls to speak up and draw attention .

Is there much difference between seeing bruises and asking / offering help to seeing a ( potential) weapon and saying something about it ?

I think its a welcome break from the norm where dilligaf isnt just a funny song but a way of life it seems

My heavy thought for the week , feel free to disect / discuss

 

[Comeuppance]

It depends on the words and tone chosen when they say something about the knife, and the situation.

Of course, such threads are hardly filled with objective accounts of what has occurred, so there's no easy way to judge a reaction fairly - or whether the reaction was misrepresented or not given proper context.