born_stubborn

A blogger I know stated the following about people who can only criticize and verbally belittle a female politician, any successful female, or any female with a higher capacity for intellect than their own, for being successful.

"Most importantly, I really hate living in a world where someone can say that kind of shit in public and people don’t look at him like he smells like fecal matter, at the least, or punch him in the face, at the most. The morons I shared an elevator with all kept their mouths shut, and three in the corner giggled, including his admiring friend.

The world is really fucked up when people look at people that correct these wankstains, like me, with less understanding than the very pits of human excrement from which such idiocies spew."

More crudely than I would like to state it herein, but the sister makes a good point. Our tolerance for hatred is off the charts.

Due to my belief in that fact, I can't help but question the moral compass of people who find misogyny, homophobia, racial hatred - or even rape and murder - funny.

You know - the kind of compass that somehow points to the belief that gang-raping a little girl while she's passed out drunk is a memory worth talking about - shit for which the perpetrators would be buried under a jail if there was a smidgen of a sense of justice in our society. But I'm the nutball and the odd man out for working to expose such depravity? Look, I make no apologies for seeing that there's more to life than how much I can get laid. I have a fundamental problem respecting someone's views or even listening to them talk if they think of women as anything less than human, especially if their language is a constant reflection of that fact. Their opinions of women just aren't worth hearing at all. I would refrain from the risk of giving credence to this sniveling bullshit - and not talk about it - but society at large seems to accept it. To me, that's a travesty and a gross injustice. I risk being ostracized every time I point out an enormous flaw in the "game" of people are too chickenshit to examine themselves. They would be faulting me for their weaknesses, which I reckon is only a reflection that they're unwilling to examine said weaknesses. Folks like me shouldn't have to pay for thinking outside the norm. Here's a typical scenario: things like, "oh, I bet that guy gets laid a lot," are said, so I counter with something like "yeah, well there are a lot of stupid people in the world." Clearly, I have no qualms about standing up to peer pressure. If that makes me less popular with the dudes, so be it. I may even be marginalized for my thinking when it is their thinking that deserves to be marginalized. Again, so be it. I've never been much of a conformist anyway. This is because what's right isn't always popular. So, these folks may think of me as emasculated. I can remain unscathed knowing I stand up for what I believe in.

Still, the callousness of some people I know saddens me.

UPDATE: You know, this is the first time in a long time that I've actually felt better after a rant. I actually welcome the consequences of what I said.