the dumbest thing QUOTES

1 " Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. " You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way. "

2 " I did the only thing I could. I said the dumbest thing any man has ever said to a woman, “Yeah, it’s just me and my trash can here,” as I patted its lid and started pushing it up the driveway. "

― Amanda Hamm , Meet Cute: 5 Romantic Short Stories

3 " Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... it's isn't just a miscarriage of justice; they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. That view is nonremorseful and not rehabilitative. It may also be true. It seems to me that we have here a convergence between the rapists's view of what he has done and the victim's perspective on what was done to her. That is, for both, their ordinary experiences of heterosexual intercourse and the act of rape have something in common. Now this gets us into immense trouble, because that's exactly how judges and juries see it who refuse to convict men accused of rape. A rape victim has to prove that it was not intercourse. She has to show that there was force and that she resisted, because if there was sex, consent is inferred. Finders of fact look for " more force than usual during the preliminaries" . Rape is defined by distinction from intercourse - not nonviolence, intercourse. They ask, does this event look more like fucking or like rape? But what is their standard for sex, and is this question asked from the women's point of view? The level of force is not adjudicated at her point of violation; it is adjudicated at the standard for the normal level of force. Who sets this standard? "

4 " Growing up is the dumbest thing I ever wanted to rush into. "

― Tanya Masse

5 " The directness of her question throws me. " I don't know. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities...to get together with someone. And we've both screwed up so many times" - my voice grows quiet - " that we've missed our chance." " Anna." Mer pauses. " That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard." " But—" " But what? You love him, and he loves you, and you live in the most romantic city in the world. "

6 " That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife. "

― K. Martin Beckner , Chips of Red Paint

7 " It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean. "