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"I went along because they were my friends," she said. "There was an implicit degree of cooperation in the whole thing. I felt like I was being hazed."
Like I said, weird, but nothing that makes me say "OH MY GOD!"
The clarification shows that she went along with it, so I don't it's such a big deal. It's not like they tied her up against her will, screaming the whole way. It looks like a "game" blown up out of proportion.
Friends dare friends to do stupid things all the time. See how long you can hold a hand up to a lighter, drive for a few seconds with eye closed, etc etc. In this case, they held some mock religious ceremony that some chick went along with, playacting. Is it weird? Sure, but who cares? People do weird stuff all the time. I think people that LARP (live action role playing) are weirdos, but they're probably perfectly fine people apart from that.
"I went along because they were my friends," she said. "There was an implicit degree of cooperation in the whole thing. I felt like I was being hazed."
Like I said, weird, but nothing that makes me say "OH MY GOD!"
The SCA is at least fun to watch.
stupid ≠ creepy
slightly nerdy, but not creepy.
Eh, it's slightly creepy, sure. I just don't think it's as big a deal as everyone made it out to be. So they did some weird stuff... big whoop? Given the clarification, what's the big deal, really?
It's not a big deal. But it is the topic of this thread.
Seems like to me that Rand had a really fun time in school. Today, who cares if he was/is a pothead?
Eh. I just think the significance is greatly lessened if the woman went along with it. *shrug*
From the tone of her interview, I never got the impression she was kidnapped or physically forced to do anything to begin with.
My impression was that she was bound and blindfolded by two mysterious (friendly?) strangers, then delivered to the banks of some local river or creek. Did I get that wrong?
Yes, but with her consent. Think it greatly changes the tone of the story. Seems to me like some goofy take on a "ritual". Akin to college hazing.
Likening it to hazing doesn't much diminish the creep factor for me, but to those who have already been hazed I guess it's no big deal. Vive la difference.
in the court of my opinion, even with her consenting to getting tied up and blindfolded, the notion that two stoned dudes took a tied up, blindfolded chick to a creek is creepy.
Probably the difference factor. Most people who join the military get hazed in some fashion or another, not to mention that military personnel tend to do attend alot of symbolic ceremonies. Maybe that explains my lack of creep-outed-ness.
I'm familiar with the derisive, bantering style of south Texas soccer coaches. So in a dim way maybe, I can relate.
But I wasn't bound to that by a contract: I chose to play every single time, so I put up with all the cheesy taunting. Eventually I did realize our coaches were getting us ready for the kind of things our opponents would say on the field (or the parents on the sideline) and otherwise, were driving us appropriately to our physical extremity in practice.
All the while testing our wits to amuse themselves.
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