(Photo Taken by:Ashley Dyce)
This story reminds me of a time a cut my arm, no not on purpose but by accident. It was a Sunday after church and as I was leaving to go out the door, I went against the choir seats and there was a needling sticking out, and it scratched deep into my arm. But no one was around to witness it, so I just cleaned myself off and went home. The next week when I cam back to church, everyone was looking at me with a question mark on there faces like what happened to her. Some of my friends did ask me and I told them, but it still seemed like they didn’t believe me. Then some of the adults would ask me if I was "OK", were things going fine at home, or if I was depressed. And I first I did not see why they were asking me these things, but then I realized that they probably thought I was cutting myself because I was depressed or I had problems at home.
In society today if u girl is found with cuts on her arm it is assumed to has been self mutilating herself due to depression or trying to escape problems at home. No one ever thinks it could be from an accident or anything else. So like in the story A Beaut of a Shiner By: Jane Slaughter she says “ When a woman has a black eye it is assumed that her husband or lover is responsible.” everyone just assumes if a woman has a scare or bruise she has been beaten or purposely hurt herself. But if I guy has a black eye, there friends would assume he’s been in a fight and won, or been doing something athletic or dangerous, and that makes him more of a man. In the photo above I took a picture of my arm, were you can still see the mark to this day.
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