We’re focusing on the actions of the snoopers because those actions are being defended in this thread. We’re not focusing on the cheating spouse, because nobody in this thread is saying that cheating is okay.
Seems incredible to me that the cheating wife has not been outed yet. Surely that’s only a matter a time. People will be dying to know whether he dumped her over the incident.
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I’d keep a copy of Penn Jillette’s letter from Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends, where the writer mentions that he just got out of prison, that he was in prison for killing somebody for shoulder-surfing him, and that he has no regrets and would do it again.
I know this is weird, but I can despise more than one activity at a time. I don’t think I’m actually a freak of nature… at least for that.
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That’s not the topic of this thread. Of course cheating is wrong. The more interesting conversation is the morality of what the snoopers did.
Even with perfect eyesight, the notion that they innocently and accidentally read the messages without making a special effort to snoop is ludicrous.
When the snooping escalates to taking pictures… well, let’s see if that cell phone camera can do a colonoscopy.
Agreed. I’ve been to that stadium many times and I have a pretty good mental picture of how far the seats/rows are apart. There is no way anyone just "happened " to read the phone of the person in front of them. I have 20/10 vision and at about the distance I think the rows are apart, I really have to concentrate to read my iPhone screen. Unless cheating lady had her font size turned way up, no way was this just a “casual” look at her screen.
“Some” people in this thread have basically implied that there is “no way to avoid reading other peoples phones/laptops, etc.” Bullshit. It’s obvious the two little twerps worked really hard to do it.
And, just to reiterate, no, I’m not defending what the woman was doing, “cheating be wrong, ya’ll”, but the discussion here is on the snooping, not the cheating.
Hopefully she is fired from her job. She’s obviously untrustworthy and a bad person.
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You don’t know that there is infidelity.
Heh. I think that’s a fine idea. Please subscribe me to your newsletter, How to Screw with Nosy Nellies. Does it give weekly updates?
Oh my God, woman! What are you, super human? There’s no way anyone can expect mere mortals to attain such lofty heights. There must be witchery involved.
Eyes of newt ain’t cheap. We’ll just leave it at that.
More importantly, you don’t know how these people have organized their relationship.
Maybe the husband knows but has decided to pretend he doesn’t. Maybe that’s the charade that’s going to get them through this phase of their lives.
Maybe there will be a blow up. Maybe the infidelity will fade away. But whatever happens, it’s the business of those people.
If some third party forces an overt recognition of what’s going on then that can take away certain options, such as forgetting about it and pretending it didn’t happen.
Maybe they’re not even married. Maybe she’s out on a first date with him and got a flirty text from the other guy that she’s been on a few dates with.
(and maybe she called him “Nancy” so when it pops up other dates don’t get jealous and other women/friends don’t ask questions, maybe she does that with all the guys she goes out with).
I know, long shot, but I’m surprised no one’s considered that he might not be her husband. The girls made that assumption, based on the text and the name Nancy and the internet ran with it.
It may be a perfectly innocent date and a perfectly innocent (if racy) text. But, hey, let’s make them internet stars for a few weeks. Maybe they’ll get on Tosh.0.
No, it implies that there’s overwhelming consensus that cheating is an utterly shitty thing to do. If responses were focused on that angle, the thread would go like this:
Poster 1: I think cheating is bad.
Poster 2: Hey, I agree! Cheating is terrible!
Poster 3: I disapprove of cheating.
Poster 4: You know what I think? I think cheating is bad.
Repeat ad infinitum, for a really, really boring thread.
People discussing the snooping and internet slut-shaming are implying that there’s, you know, actually something to discuss there.
It’s a really interesting mental process, and one that I see more than I’d like - ‘People are saying that the snoopers/shamers did something wrong, therefore those people are saying that the [ probably ] cheating woman did nothing wrong!’ Is there a name for this?
DING DING DING DING, we have a winner in the “what motivates kids nowadays” contest. If this were done to do Mr. Braves Fan a solid, we’d have never heard about it. Someone wanted their fake internet points, retweets, likes, or whatever, so made sure to let everyone how they stuck it to someone who meets today’s definition of morally reprehensible.
I’m actually kind of surprised that we haven’t heard any thing from the couple in this story. I seriously wonder if they’re lawyering up to sue the girls for invasion of privacy or intentional infliction of emotional distress or something like that.
Or maybe they really don’t want people in their personal business.