@I:
She does sound destructive Silance. Why is it, do you think, that your friends didn't pick up on a Warning signal of their own? (That always makes me curious.)
This was at college. And I went to Morehouse, a Historically Black College, which was a private school for black men.
Yes, Spelman (private school for black women) was across the street and so was Clark (men & women) and while we could all take classes at each other's schools,
for all the men at Morehouse there was a definite feeling of, well, cabin fever.
I grew up in a startlingly diverse middle class community, so for me the shock wasn't as bad,
but for a lot of my friends at Morehouse, it was very strange and new to be surrounded by so many educated, well-spoken, geeky, nerdy people of color.
Nurtured there was this sense of "help your brothers, help your sisters" kinship that not everybody had experienced on that scale before. Combine that with a college atmosphere and you had a lot of folks looking for "the one."
Spelman was generally agreed to be "a bust." The Rockefellers fund Spelman handsomely, and a lot of the girls there were – well, princesses with sky high standards.
If I have to give Morehouse's campus a mood, I'd say it had the sort of "playing the harmonica in lockup" camaraderie of commiserating men.
Drop a tiny super cute brown scene chick in plunging hot pink tanktops & electric blue fishnets into the mix and you've got trouble.
Make her a bubbly, quirky, cosplayer, gamer, comic-nerd art student with glasses and a husky voice, and you've got blood in the water.
Which is a really appropriate metaphor, considering the bloodbath that followed in her wake.
@Monkey:
Funny how that always had the opposite effect on me, instead of drawing me in the first hint of that sort of thing drove me away faster than light.
And no offense to your friends but I always disrespected the guys who would wag their tales so readily for that shit in the first place. More than the girl even, it's like how can you be this dumb or self-disrespecting to go into that?
I was playing WoW at the time, and had seen already the kind of unbridled carnage that a self-tiled "gamer girl" can wreak upon a group of lonely geeks (my guild went through several of them), so my guard was way up.
My female friends had in no uncertain terms said: "YOU STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM HER." But even if they hadn't, she was just too sly to trust. Unfortunately for us: my friends were too stupid to care.
All things considered we only lost two of us so we made out better than her last group.
