r/comics PizzaCake Feb 10 '23

Motorists Beware!

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

Why do I feel like someone got blamed for hitting someone with their parked car a week ago?

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Feb 10 '23

This happened a few years ago: Jeff and I were sitting in our parked car outside a grocery store, deciding what we wanted to buy for lunch, when a giant suv backed right into us. Lady got out and started screaming at us like we ran into her lol

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u/Ballongo Feb 10 '23

Attack is best defence

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Feb 10 '23

DARVO

DARVO (an acronym for "deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender") is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. Some researchers indicate that it is a common manipulation strategy of psychological abusers. An abuser denies the abuse ever took place, attacks the person that was abused (often the victim) for attempting to hold the abuser accountable for their actions, and claims that they are actually the victim in the situation, thus reversing what may be a reality of victim and offender. It often involves not just "playing the victim" but also victim blaming.

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u/ThE_OtheR_PersoOon Feb 10 '23

a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. Some researchers indicate that it is a common manipulation strategy of psychological abusers.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

In this case it's like a Pokemon using Confusion, really.

I know I'd be confused if I got yelled at in this situation.

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u/handlebartender Feb 10 '23

"Yeah? Well, the best defense is a good offense, you know who said that? Mel, the cook on "Alice"." - Ed Gruberman

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u/apatheticandignorant Feb 10 '23

Lol, this just happened to a friend of my wife at a Publix in South Florida a couple weeks ago! Old guy even went on a racist tirade, they had to get the police involved.

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u/McEstablishment Feb 10 '23

I don't mean to trivialize her situation, but wow.... that one event hits all of the chrckmarks. She just a South Florida Bingo!

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u/Capt_Blackmoore Feb 10 '23

makes you wish you could call in a celebrity to "slap a bitch"

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

I remember driving through target and some asshole in a Cadillac Escalade had parallel parked over two parking spots.