Offensive - Causing anger, displeasure, resentment, or affront.
Behavior - The actions or reactions of a person [or animal] in response to external or internal stimuli; the manner in which something operates or functions.
(Definitions courtesy of Dictionary.com)
Briefly I would like to discuss the interactions I have recently encountered among people who have been in possession of a number of forms of 'offensive behavior.'
I was recently sitting at my computer checking people's away messages, as I commonly do when I have nothing more compelling to attend to, when I see someone put up an away message. Well, you can imagine my surprise when I see on someone's profile (beneath their away message obviously) this comment:
ya gotta soften the bitch up...you know like that guy, lookin' like Phil Mickelson
^random black guy, referencing me
Now, I would like to stick the main thing wrong with this comment, however, my innate ability to call someone out on their mistakes and bullshit will not allow me to do so. Let's look at this comment in "reference" to females. Hmmmm, what kind of a real man would put this in his profile? 'Ya gotta soften the bitch up.' Obviously someone lacking in confidence and that has struck out a few too many times with the ladies [probably stemming from the fact that he doesn't know how to treat a lady like a lady!] Secondly, the identification of the speaker is a "random black guy." Interesting. And if the speaker were white would the owner of this profile have put "random, white guy?" Doubtful; actually very doubtful in the fact that he told me no himself. Thirdly, I don't believe that "referencing" is even used correctly. Perhaps referring would have been better - because that is grammatically wrong.
Some of you may ask, why take it to this level of observation and analyzation? Well, because mostly I just cannot help myself, but there is also the reason that I endure this type of stupidity every single day and I am just about sick and tired of it. Trust me, I have many other instances of this ignorance, but even if I spent every free moment I had recounting every ignorant person I have come into contact with I would still not have filled this diary to its entirety. This entry is merely a call-to-arms for those of you who, like myself, are sick to death of stupid people who don't even try to learn anything about stopping their retardations of character.
*Always.
Caitlin
Sometimes those most worthy of love are not made happy by it. ~Dangeous Liaisons
It is on the strength of observation that one finds a way; so we must dig and delve unceasingly. ~Claude Monet 1840-1926