What happened to just walking away when you are turned down by someone??

By now you have heard about Mildred Beaubrun. She died today after being taking off of life support in Orlando, Florida.

If you don’t know about it, I will fill you in—any self-respecting person should be disgusted at what happened to this girl!

Mildred was a mere 18 years old and was just about to graduate high school. She and two friends went clubbing on May 19 and having left early in the morning, they stopped at a gas station to fill up their cars an grab some sodas. In pulls a Chevrolet HHR with three or four guys in it. The guys accost the girls, asking them for their numbers and flirting with them.

The girls obviously rebuff their advances and the Chevy followed their Nissan Maxim and started throwing things at the ladies car. I don’t know how it escalated to that point, but eventually those beasts of the field started shooting.

The bullet struck Mildred and for the next two weeks she loses part of her lung, has a bout with pneumonia and might have to live with paralyzing spinal damage! But she didn’t live! Did she??

Having been told that she was brain dead, her mother and aunt decided to have the tubes pulled and she was pronounced dead at one in the afternoon on yesterday.

The other girls in the car with her didn’t get good looks at the men even though two sketches have been released.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-teenshot0408jun04,0,3744827.story

This all leaves me scratching my head and looking up at the sky wondering what is wrong with people today??
It used to be that if a man saw you, liked what he saw and approached you—he would of course say hello, ask how you are doing and eventually ask for the digits (ugghh, that word is sooooo 90s). If you turned him down, whether nicely or with a nasty attitude, he just called you a stuck up b***** and bounced. And off he was to seek out another girl. He would ask for her number too (preferably in front of your face so you can feel some type of jealousy over a man you only knew for a few seconds and didn’t care for no way or no how.)

The point was, the dude got over it and moved on. Now it is to the point where they will shoot you? Are you freakin’ serious?? What did Mildred and her girls do or say that caused these dudes to react with gunshots? I don’t care if those girls talked about their mamas!

What kind of low self-esteem did these dudes have that they felt so rejected and played that shooting at those girls was the only course of action they could take?

This should make all women think. How many times have you been accosted by some guy and rebuffed him either with an eye roll or a fake smile and a ‘No, thank you’ or just ignored him? Did you think he would shoot you? Were you scared for your life when you denied him?

When guys catcall me and try to talk I just smile as sincerely as I can and say ‘No thanks’. I don’t catch attitudes (no matter how disrespectful some guys would get), I don’t look them up and down with disgust and wave them away dismissively. I just smile and keep walking. Why?

Because partly, there is no reason to be nasty, and mostly because I don’t know how that dude might react!!

Years ago while I was in high school, I was about to cross the street and standing next to me was one of the prettier girls in school. Some dude came up to her and started talking to her. She said in a polite but no-nonsense way that she had a boyfriend and left it at that. The dude immediately became belligerent right there on the street and called her all sorts of names. I watched the whole thing.

She wasn’t mean. She wasn’t rude and she wasn’t trying to embarrass him. She just stated a fact, but evidently this was an affront to his masculinity (I don’t recall if he had any friends around him) and I guess he felt as though he needed to defend himself.

I thought us women were the ones who felt some type of way when people of the opposite sex rejected us. We were the ones who dealt with low self-esteem. It had never occurred to me that guys feel the same way. While most just tend to their wounded ego and move on, idiot beastly creatures like the dudes in the Chevy rather just shoot to kill.

What happened to just walking away when you were turned down? Why did Mildred lose her life simply because she didn’t give away her phone number?

I just can’t fathom this.