"Also, in Felix's years of institutional incarceration, I fear his experience of sexual predation at the hands of other equally mad but less decent and restrained folk may have coloured his views somewhat."
Some messed up stuff happens in those facilities. I got in some deep trouble when I was 18 when I was in a temporary R Wing Facility. There was a catatonic girl who had been raped, she was just to be finishing high school, and going to some Ivy League school, stayed after one night for help on some school work. Got raped, sent to the loony bin because she went catatonic. Well, I was chatting with another young woman on a couch next to the one this young lady was placed on when a black guy who was there, for who knows what reason he was there decided to move next to this young lady and grope her.
The lady next to me just all of the sudden in mid conversation stiffened, hit me, and pointed to this man groping this poor girl. I lost my temper and went after him, jumping over furniture with the intent to do him incredible bodily harm. The staff didn't believe me, or the young lady who was chatting with me, despite the fact the catatonic girl was rocking violently with tears streaming down her face and moaning and sobbing. They acted like I was a monster, while the man taunted me from behind his barred bedroom door. I got transferred, and despite my requests to at least move the girl to the other side of the wing, they were ignored.
Anyhow, your friend probably appreciates the fact you actually didn't just agree blindly to what he was saying, deep down, somewhere. People tend to humor those who are different and locked up out of fear or pity. When lucid, those men and women who remember those people who humored them, tend to become resentful due to it.
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Some messed up stuff happens in those facilities. I got in some deep trouble when I was 18 when I was in a temporary R Wing Facility. There was a catatonic girl who had been raped, she was just to be finishing high school, and going to some Ivy League school, stayed after one night for help on some school work. Got raped, sent to the loony bin because she went catatonic. Well, I was chatting with another young woman on a couch next to the one this young lady was placed on when a black guy who was there, for who knows what reason he was there decided to move next to this young lady and grope her.
The lady next to me just all of the sudden in mid conversation stiffened, hit me, and pointed to this man groping this poor girl. I lost my temper and went after him, jumping over furniture with the intent to do him incredible bodily harm. The staff didn't believe me, or the young lady who was chatting with me, despite the fact the catatonic girl was rocking violently with tears streaming down her face and moaning and sobbing. They acted like I was a monster, while the man taunted me from behind his barred bedroom door. I got transferred, and despite my requests to at least move the girl to the other side of the wing, they were ignored.
Anyhow, your friend probably appreciates the fact you actually didn't just agree blindly to what he was saying, deep down, somewhere. People tend to humor those who are different and locked up out of fear or pity. When lucid, those men and women who remember those people who humored them, tend to become resentful due to it.