Marsupialized wrote:For some reason this makes trilonaut angry. So angry he wishes in his head he wasn't such a tiny little flimsy nothing and he could do things like kick people's ass on the street for no reason other than the fact they do not think exactly like him.Why on Earth would you give two shits about what some dude you don't know or ever will know says into his cell phone?
wrong. i didn't wish i could beat him up, i simply wanted to say something to make it clear that i don't tacitly accept his racist ranting, and the reason i didn't is because when i'm with friends (in this case my girlfriend) there's a pressure to not do something that would make them very uncomfortable or upset -- they're my friends and i'm going to have to deal with them more than this stranger. in this case i probably should've thrown that to the wind, i didn't, i got frustrated and vented about it to the board, then got made fun of by two macho troll types (well, macho on the internet... who knows in real life).
see, when i hear someone spouting racist shit, oftentimes i feel i'm being asked, directly or indirectly, to approve of it, to validate them, to confirm their belief that we all think like that.
about alky's use of "pussified" and complaining that men are turning into femmy girly men... please. the world needs less machismo, violence murder and meatheadism, spare the sexist bs. and yeah, alky doesn't seem like some "old head" or a soldier... he seems like a troll pure and simple
you know, another incident like this was when this guy walked up to me when i was working a record store and started going on and on about how he beats his wife. i was speechless and he definitely started asking for approval. i felt like i should've just told him to get the hell out of the store but instead i waited through his whole long story until he said "you know what my brother said? he said the only thing i did wrong was that i didn't start beating her earlier!" and i said "no. it's never ok to hit a woman. if you had a problem with her you should've left her." and he said "yeah, ok, yeah i should've just walked away."
maybe in that case me not flipping at him but actually listening through his whole disturbing story and then calmly telling him that he's wrong hopefully made more of an impression... i think if i'd flipped at him early on he would've just been like "haha, gimme a break, son!" but instead he started backpedaling and seemed legitimately embarrassed.
