I don’t know what the careful response might be. It bears some thinking about. Humiliation in front of his friends can be horrible. A comedian once made a joke against someone who spoke out from the audience and he committed suicide. And there was a young man at Rutgers who did the same when his roommate took pix of him and posted them.
I’m thinking in terms of intervention by a skilled teen counselor, quietly and in private. Could be a way to get him into the therapy he obviously needed too. It’s certainly as important as talking someone down from a window ledge.
Nobody mentions the embarrassment and hastles this guy forced on the girl.
Note, he’d been after her for four months, and this is the first mention of her trying to shame him into backing off.
>> Humiliation in front of his friends can be horrible
Humiliation may be the most destructive emotion one could experience.
Through various forms of coddling, Liberalism has ill-prepared children for confrontation, failure, rejection, and inevitably humiliation.
And then the teenager is rejected and incapable of handling humiliation. Some commit suicide, others become homicidal.
“Humiliation in front of his friends can be horrible.”
That’s why you don’t ask a girl in public, and you certainly dont make a pest of yourself for 4 months. One rejection is humiliating enough, but this guy wouldn’t take no for an answer so public humiliation was an appropriate response.