Would you date OJ?
Last night, as our usual group met for trivia, a television behind us was airing the Larry King Show. The topic was the newest emergence of an OJ Simpson revelation how he would have killed his ex-wife had he done it.
At which point one of the "team members" asked, "Do you think OJ dates?"
The sad thing is, he probably does. And you have to wonder — who are these women? OJ is a known and admitted wife-beater who lives under a black cloud of suspicion that he killed the ex-wife he spent years beating.
I don't know if I am being choosy, but I don't think I would really try to land OJ. He doesn't seem like much of a catch. I could never date anyone who famously, or even anonymously, beat another woman. I'm all for giving second chances, but there has got to be a line drawn at some point.
A few years back, OJ made the news when his girlfriend at the time accused him of battery — long story short, he isn't going to change. And neither will most men, unless they commit to intense therapy.
How would you handle the situation if you found out your current boyfriend or a guy you were about to date had a previous history of being abusive? Would you take your chances, or would you exit the realtionship immediately?
At which point one of the "team members" asked, "Do you think OJ dates?"
The sad thing is, he probably does. And you have to wonder — who are these women? OJ is a known and admitted wife-beater who lives under a black cloud of suspicion that he killed the ex-wife he spent years beating.
I don't know if I am being choosy, but I don't think I would really try to land OJ. He doesn't seem like much of a catch. I could never date anyone who famously, or even anonymously, beat another woman. I'm all for giving second chances, but there has got to be a line drawn at some point.
A few years back, OJ made the news when his girlfriend at the time accused him of battery — long story short, he isn't going to change. And neither will most men, unless they commit to intense therapy.
How would you handle the situation if you found out your current boyfriend or a guy you were about to date had a previous history of being abusive? Would you take your chances, or would you exit the realtionship immediately?
posted by Anonymous at 1:55 PM
2 Comments:
If I found out that a guy I was dating had been abusive in the past, I would be out of the relationship so fast! Most of the time, abusers repeat their behaviors and I do not want to be on the receiving end if there is even a slight chance of that.
I would exit as fast as possible!
My friend in college was seeing this guy when he told her he had some things in his past, and she should look him up in the student newspaper's archives. Turns out, he was arrested once for threatening a girl with a bat. See, she was standing in the parking space he wanted, and he didn't want to just hit her because it would damage his car. So, to defend it, he went after her with a bat.
After reading that, my friend stopped seeing him. I think that was a good move on her part.
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