He was my first serious boyfriend, back when I was 15 (he was also 15, FTR). I was madly in love with him, we broke up, and i ended up getting with his brother. I moved to Boston, havent thought abut him in years. I did a google search on him this morning out of extreme boredom, and came up with this from last year. I always knew he was going to end up in jail…
Yeah, I’m also having a hard time imagining how on earth finding out your ex went to jail for screwing 13-year-olds could be the slightest bit amusing.
Perhaps the OP is not seeing the honest to gosh big picture here, and is simply taking a small amount of satisfaction at the person in question’s misfortune. I am guessing that it has more to do with the guy in jail part, and nothing to do with the 13 year olds getting screwed part.
Maybe, just maybe, the ex in question was a complete jerk to her and she still bears some emotional scars. It could be that the guy landing in jail gives the OP a feeling of the balancing of things.
Or I don’t know, perhaps the OP is having a stress reaction. Laughing so as not to cry.
OTOH, it is possible that the OP simply delights in the molestation of young girls, in which case the emerging pile on is justified.
I vote for the gentle approach where we suggest that the OP think of the poor girls involved, and perhaps ask if there is more information that might make a giggling reaction more palatable. Of course knee-jerk judgmental posts work as well. :rolleyes:
Yeah, I’d probably be giggling, too. Boyfriend from four years ago treated me like dirt, probably cheated on me, maybe even called me a few names and now the son of a bitch is in jail. YAY! Nevermind that the lives of CHILDREN are ruined, their happiness and joy and ability to grow and function normally compromised. Nevermind that these girls will probably have to spend a good part of their CHILDHOOD in therapy where they’ll have to recount things that 13 year old girls shouldn’t even know about. Nevermind that this guy took advantage of these children, preying on their age, emotions, insecurities. Nevermind the “emotional scars” these THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRLS will have to live with. Nevermind all that, because this asshole hurt MY feelings when he was MY boyfriend when I was fifteen and he broke up with me and made ME feel bad!!! And now he’s in jail. HOORAY!!!
Binary, how could we go on without your incredible wisdom?
I had the same initial reaction that many did . Giggling???
But, tho I haven’t had any real dealings with the OP, I also don’t recall any negatives about her either, which would suggest that she intended the way this sounds.
therefore, I was going to give her the benefit of the doubt, that she’d posted the story, and didn’t really think about the entire deal.
Yes, it’s absolutely awful what the victims went through.
Yes, if guilty, he sure should go to prison for a very long time.
I’m also fairly confident that the OP isn’t really giggling about the victims, but rather that visceral thing that we sometimes feel when something bad (going to jail) happens to some one we feel deserved it.
Unless some one can link me to other posts where Pammipoo demonstrates that she’s a callous bitch, I’m willing to think it was that visceral thing, and that she’s not really giggling about kids being molested.
OK, can we keep the unpleasantness to a minimum in MPSIMS, and if you’re not happy with the choice of words in the OP, may I suggest another forum for expressing your displeasure?
It is funny. It’s like “I always new the guy was nuts, and this proves it.”
-Yea, young girls being “convinced” into sex with an older guy isn’t a happy occasion, but the guy did get caught and even if he hadn’t, it’s just not the most horrible thing going on in the world today- people in some places are cutting each other up alive with machetes on a regular basis and leaving the pieces in the street. … If you’re going to fret about something you can’t change and aren’t responsible for, at least pick something that’s universally distasteful.
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I’m leaning that way, too. Leaning so far, I’m 'bout to tip over. So, Pammipoo, tell us, tell us, tell us true? What believe you?
And just to head this thing off, if any of you wanna flame Poo, please do it in the Pit. But were I you, I’d hold off until we have an explanation from her. The most likely explanation here is that of a poorly worded post made in haste.
Perhaps, wring, if this “man” had been jailed for blowing off his own genitals in a freak meth lab accident, it’d be funny. Maybe if he’d been jailed for trying to pick up an undercover cop dressed as a prostitute, it’d be funny. But would you laugh if some asshole ex-boyfriend of yours was picked up on manslaughter charges after killing a family of four in a drunk driving accident? I’d really like to hope not, regardless of how much of an asshole he was to you.
It’s tragic. Pammipoo might feel some kind of “justice” because he’s in jail. But he wouldn’t be in jail if those little girls had been victimized and there is NOTHING funny about that.
Gee SilverFire I thought I already answered that. No, I don’t think it’s funny. But I’m willing to believe, absent any other evidence of being a callous jerk, that she posted w/o thinking it all the way through. And, as UB suggested, I’m also willing to wait to hear from her (tho’ her posting above seems to me to be an indication that she didn’t think it through).
My defense:
Like Binary said, I didnt post the whole story. This was a sleazy, slimy guy whom I somehow fell in deep for. I was a good lil girl…for whatever reason, I got hooked on him and refused to see him for who he really was. All my friends told me he was bad news, that he was creepy. I persisted that he was amazing. He broke up with me. I was really bummed for awhile, got over it eventually. Spent the next 3 years joking with friends that it didnt matter, because he was slime, and was going to end up in jail anyways. Pretty much forgot about him, until this morning
It’s funny to me, because of my twisted history with him. I’m not especially thrilled for the little kids he was having sex with, I’m not a sick pervert. I do wish he were jailed for other circumstances…robbing a sperm bank or something highly entertaining. But, I take what I can get, and an ex who can only get little girls is better than nothing.
I’m not laughing at the poor girls…I’m laughing at the situation he got himself into. Poorly worded, yes. Am I a bad person? Hopefully not.
I’m dropping out of this thread now. Letting it die is probably the best way. If a mod wants to close this, feel free.