This is a tough one, especially when it comes to rumours and characterizations.
You can say something about someone that is not true or twised, it will be believed most of the time, or at least taken at face value.
And it can effect a person's status in a peer group or organization.
This is how the game is usually played:
Cream has something against KillarneyRose (KR) for whatever reason so starts making disparaging comments about KR or making some stuff up. First she tells her friends, after making them promise not to say anything to KR.
At first KR doesn't know anything is going on, but it spreads among circles of people and eventually gets back to her. But the people that tell her make her promise not to say THEY said anything lol.
The damage is on going because people that take Cream at her word are harshly judging KR, and those include people that aren't really Cream's friends, just people that have heard rumours.
The longer it goes on, the more people that won't like KR, most won't even know why.
And KR is now on the defensive with public opinion mostly against her. Sometimes she only finds out when its too late to do anythin but find a new group to belong to.
Sounds pretty elementary school but I have seen it in the Chapter House, School, and workplace all the time.
Has anyone else seen it? I have definitely seen it in small degrees on GC. GC being a microcosm.
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Originally posted by Munchkin03
Why can't the guys (or the offended parties for whom this is actually their business) sort it out themselves? I've had friends in all sorts of trouble--one domestic violence thing comes to mind--that you just have to sit back and let them live their own lives.
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