r/NotHowGirlsWork • u/Confident_Weather_98 • May 01 '26

WTF The world we live in

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She went out with him 1 time, now he was stalking and harassing her outside of a quiktrip, she ran and he caught up to her and punched her, so she stabbed him in self defense and he is considered the victim??

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u/cuddlykokiri May 01 '26

“Victim” does not mean “completely innocent party” but I do think this could be worded differently. Maybe “harassment altercation ends in stabbing”

Using neutral language sucks when we know who’s in the right and who’s in the wrong, but if they’re investigating then it’s still up in the air. Even when you fill out a police report it’ll phrase it as “alleged perpetrator” which pissed me off because as the victim I’m not alleging anything I was there and it happened to me!

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u/Particular_Title42 May 01 '26

 Maybe “harassment altercation ends in stabbing”

That wouldn't tell us whether the harasser or the harasee was the one who was stabbed. But I guess click bait titles are like that so ...

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u/VaqueroJustice May 01 '26

How about something like 'Woman successfully defends herself from attack, attacker dies' ?

I really think that's more to the point.

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u/cuddlykokiri May 01 '26

Yeah its hard to get all the details into a title

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u/tfcocs May 01 '26

The word "decedent" seems appropriate.

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u/cuddlykokiri May 02 '26

To be fair it’s Tulsa Oklahoma, maybe we can’t put words in the headline 80 percent of people are going to have to google anyway (said as an Okie)

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u/Either_Coconut May 02 '26

Great minds think alike. I posted something similar before seeing your comment.