Why?
Because I have an interest in demonstrating to my readers how “nice” people are often the most insulting, patronizing jerks right out of the gate.
Many of you miss this entirely because you fall for it. You fall for the faux-civil language. You say to yourselves, “Well, since he didn’t swear directly at the host, and since he put it in the form of what civil language sounds like, he’s being respectful.”
This is not respectful. It’s veiled aggression. It’s disrespect, and it’s strawmanning.
Tom Sherry? I don’t respect you either.
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Listen up readers:
I am not losing my mind.
I am not out of control.
I do not have inappropriate levels of anger.
Your personal comfort level with anger (especially male anger) is not synonymous with what is "appropriate" for me to feel or express.
I apologize for nothing, I will not dial my tone down even one notch.
But I will ban the next person who dares to speculate on my mental health because they're too afraid of plain spoken and angry men.
Your subscription does not buy you the right to engage with me in public that way.
There is something deeply, arrogantly disingenuous about persisting with the "more flies with honey than vinegar" type language when the other side is, and has been for ages, slinging poop at us.