Today, while perched on a rock wall on Cornell campus, I had an elementarily enlightening conversation about Bridget's many communication tics with Elizabeth. Elizabeth was able to give me a lot of valuable clues about Bridget's growth factors, but also reaffirmed by omission my suspicion that deconstructing the enigma of Bridget is bound to be a tedious process.
The night is now old and Bridget has broken down crying in a resurgence of many regrets that I unfortunately cannot comprehend fully because I wasn't entirely listening, so a more detailed deconstruction of Bridget's many vices will be a later entry. A few themes I have extracted follow:
- Being treated less legitimately as a woman
- A childhood of being ignored
- Self-fulfilling communication techniques that make people treat her in a way that fuels the need for defense mechanisms
- An inability to either listen to or remember the sentiments of others, or a complicated blend of both
- Living in a place that is not culturally diverse (not sure about the details of her residences)
- Being white
I am also forced to wonder how exceptional this current situation is--Elizabeth breaking down the ways in which Bridget's communication styles are damaging, and if this has been a long time coming and has erupted on the second day of this trip out of coincidence or triggering, or if my presence (and possibly illuminating input) has been a catalyst to incite this intervention.
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