Talk:IParty With Victorious/@comment-3326491-20110612181458/@comment-3419321-20110612203029

What really frustrates me about this sort of thing is the people who think that if I express sympathy for a guy like Steven, it automatically means that I don't feel bad for the girl he hurt.

I'm not saying that anybody here is doing that, but if I say I feel sorry for Steven, it seems almost guaranteed that somebody would ask me, "What, so you don't feel sorry for Carly at all?"

Uh, did I say that? Did I say I don't feel sorry for Carly?

In fact, I feel A LOT more sympathy for Carly than I do for Steven. I'm not saying that what she did was wrong, or that Steven didn't deserve it. That's not the point.

To some people, it may seem contradictory, and they're free to think that if they wish ... but it's not contradictory to me. Just because I feel sympathy for Carly doesn't mean I can't feel bad for Steven, too. Just because I believe that he deserved what he got doesn't mean that I can't still feel sorry for him. It's not either / or.

That's how I see it.