Have you ever been in a situation such as the ones Staples describes, where you percieved someone (or someone percieved you) as threatening? How did you react? After reading Staples essay, did you think you would react the same way now?
I once percieved my mom's boyfriend as threatening. He's 6'4", light skined, and he likes to drink, occasionally get drunk. I saw him threatening at that point because he was dating my mother and I felt like he was going to put her in danger with all the drinking he does. When he's sober he's the best man in the world for my mom. When he drinks he gets into all these altercations which are uncontrollable. My reaction to all this was to mean-mug him everytime he came around, or I would just stay in my room and close the door until he left. After reading this essay I would still react the same exact way.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment