wtf people? wtf?
You know him.
He's the 270lb guy who's 6'3" and insists on driving home after drinking.
He's the guy who slurs "I drive better drunk than you do sober!". He's the guy that sticks up his thumbs from the steering wheel and keeps the road between them in a clever ploy to get home safe. He's the guy that would deck you if you tried to take his keys and plows through you as you offer to call a cab.
I hate that guy. I hate him because he could kill someone driving home late from work, or the DD from a party with a carload of drunk friends, or he could run over the lady running out to the 24 hour pharmacy to pick up cold meds for her sick kid.
But you know who I hate even more? The "friends" that let him get away with it, that insist that everyone is responsible for their own actions, that make a joke out of it instead of ostracizing him and treating him as he deserves to be treated.
Why do we love the lovable big oaf who willingly puts us in danger repeatedly? Why do we laugh at his stupidity and make a leper out of the responsible person who suggests calling the cops because this is the fifth time Tommy has decided to drive home hammered? Why do we encourage him to binge and act happy as he downs a 24 pack and frown at the tattle-tale looking out for everyone's best interest? Why is it a question of loyalty when someone says Tommy should go to jail, but not a question of loyalty when Tommy is willing to ram into your car with his just to get out of the driveway?
On that note, why does an entire theater full of people who have paid $11 to see a movie put up with 3 rowdy teenagers who are clearly intent on one thing: ruining everyone else's time? Why does no one tell them to shut up? Why does no one call security? Why isn't everybody up in arms? Why is the person that does stand up the odd one out?
Is it that nobody cares? That everyone is scared? Or is it that things have gotten so out of hand that the person who stands up for the majority is now seen as the "crackhead"?
Yesterday I told some rowdy kids to shut up in a movie and was told to fuck off. Then I went and got security and got them kicked out of the movie. My sister, chatting with a friend on the internet when she got home, tells me that as chance would have it, her friend was in the movie with us with her boyfriend. What is her boyfriend's comment at my actions? "That girl is on crack."
I understand the rowdy teens I was telling off telling me to shut up. But why would anybody else in the movie give them the upper moral hand? Or call me cracked out? Or see my actions as strange or unacceptable in any way?
It's a sad day for society when the person who is courteous and respectful and demands the same treatment in return is the odd one out. You're never going to get treated rightly or fairly if you don't ask for it. You can't just sit back and expect people to be nice. You have to stand up for yourself. If everyone did, and not just the jackasses in the movie theater - but if every normal, self-respecting and other-respecting individual did, this world would be a much better place.
As it stands, I'm left to duel it out alone with the jackasses of the world while the rest sit like sheep and put up with bullshit.
I don't get that, and I don't get the big guy having the upper moral hand over the person calling the cops. There are a lot of things I don't get about us.
He's the 270lb guy who's 6'3" and insists on driving home after drinking.
He's the guy who slurs "I drive better drunk than you do sober!". He's the guy that sticks up his thumbs from the steering wheel and keeps the road between them in a clever ploy to get home safe. He's the guy that would deck you if you tried to take his keys and plows through you as you offer to call a cab.
I hate that guy. I hate him because he could kill someone driving home late from work, or the DD from a party with a carload of drunk friends, or he could run over the lady running out to the 24 hour pharmacy to pick up cold meds for her sick kid.
But you know who I hate even more? The "friends" that let him get away with it, that insist that everyone is responsible for their own actions, that make a joke out of it instead of ostracizing him and treating him as he deserves to be treated.
Why do we love the lovable big oaf who willingly puts us in danger repeatedly? Why do we laugh at his stupidity and make a leper out of the responsible person who suggests calling the cops because this is the fifth time Tommy has decided to drive home hammered? Why do we encourage him to binge and act happy as he downs a 24 pack and frown at the tattle-tale looking out for everyone's best interest? Why is it a question of loyalty when someone says Tommy should go to jail, but not a question of loyalty when Tommy is willing to ram into your car with his just to get out of the driveway?
On that note, why does an entire theater full of people who have paid $11 to see a movie put up with 3 rowdy teenagers who are clearly intent on one thing: ruining everyone else's time? Why does no one tell them to shut up? Why does no one call security? Why isn't everybody up in arms? Why is the person that does stand up the odd one out?
Is it that nobody cares? That everyone is scared? Or is it that things have gotten so out of hand that the person who stands up for the majority is now seen as the "crackhead"?
Yesterday I told some rowdy kids to shut up in a movie and was told to fuck off. Then I went and got security and got them kicked out of the movie. My sister, chatting with a friend on the internet when she got home, tells me that as chance would have it, her friend was in the movie with us with her boyfriend. What is her boyfriend's comment at my actions? "That girl is on crack."
I understand the rowdy teens I was telling off telling me to shut up. But why would anybody else in the movie give them the upper moral hand? Or call me cracked out? Or see my actions as strange or unacceptable in any way?
It's a sad day for society when the person who is courteous and respectful and demands the same treatment in return is the odd one out. You're never going to get treated rightly or fairly if you don't ask for it. You can't just sit back and expect people to be nice. You have to stand up for yourself. If everyone did, and not just the jackasses in the movie theater - but if every normal, self-respecting and other-respecting individual did, this world would be a much better place.
As it stands, I'm left to duel it out alone with the jackasses of the world while the rest sit like sheep and put up with bullshit.
I don't get that, and I don't get the big guy having the upper moral hand over the person calling the cops. There are a lot of things I don't get about us.
posted by captain obvious at 1:34 p.m.
1 Comments:
women...not always women, but especially women...will always get called names for standing up for what they believe in, for what they deserve and for the rights of themselves and those around them.
one such woman throughout her life stood up for the rights, values and freedoms of herself, her family, and her countrymen. those who didn't love her, dispised her. first they called her a radical, then they called her a crackhead, then they killed her.
she died so that women...not always women, but especially women...the world over would realize that they have a duty, an obligation and a responsibility to stand up for who they are and what they believe in.
her name, was benazir bhutto.
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