Bite

Published on April 12, 2006 By mythgarr In Life

Saw something interisting today: two little girls are playing. As they were giggling, one girl put her index finger inside her friend, challenging her friend to bite it. The friend bite it, and the two girls are still giggling (one of them do a "giggle-while-biting" giggle, go figures!). A giggle changed into a cry once the biter bite harder, and still the biter girl giggle, thinking that her friend's cry was just an expression of momentary shock.
Her cry was continuing as I walked away after seeing that the biter still bite the crier despite her cry went louder and clearly showing signs of being in pain.
I don't know what happened next, but this event suddenly gave me a philosophical questions:

Are we like those little girls, playing some dangerous games till some of us cry, and some of us think it's just part of the game?

Innocent as they are, will one little girl brand her friend as tormentor forever?

Comments

bakerstreet

on Apr 12, 2006

I doubt you meant it that way, but I immediately thought about our current attitudes toward sex and victimization. On the one hand sex is a feminist staple and on the other it is fraught with the pitfalls of an activity where one person does something to another person guessing their overall tolerance of it.

I guess it comes down to communication. A cry isn't very informative but when we tell each other exactly what we think and feel there's little room for misunderstanding. The same could be said for politics or anything else I guess. In the end "To thine own self be true" is a good rule to live by. When you grant someone who wrongs you the benefit of the doubt enough, you're kind of party to it by not announcing your discontent.

mythgarr

on Apr 13, 2006

Bakerstreet,
we are talking in the same language here. Those are what come in my head when I first thought about those little girls.

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