I just lost my computer for a whole friggin’ week and now I’ve got 77 emails to read and 339 items in my RSS reader.
Save me Jeebus.
Oh, and I am also waiting on the new Grates album, Teeth Lost Hearts Won. It’s going to rock my socks off!
Going all out Batman-style
I’m going all out rant mode here.
I was out ‘n’ about today, and walked past a guy who was talking on his phone. He was obviously complaining about someone and decided to go all out by using a one-two punch by using two insults and combining it into one insult. So I was walking past him and he goes, “… fucking curry mad-cunt…” What. The. Fuck.
How does one say racist and sexist things like that? Oh, and get this, this guy was a white male. How does this matter?
Consider this:
- White people invaded land and killed innocent natives of that land. They introduced diseases such as small pox, measles, introduced alcoholism and drug use/abuse and introduced the concept of land ownership. In Australia, white people stole a whole generation of Aborigines in order to “breed out” them, hoping to eventually get rid of them completely.
- Men have pretty much felt that they own women, by oppressing them, dehumanising them and using their bodies as a battleground, thinking that they can choose what a woman can do with her own body.
So where the fuck does he - the guy who is white and male, and probably has ancestors that have caused so much hate and problems in the world that I’ve briefly explained in my two points above - gets off using slurs like that? That pisses me off. A lot. Like, I’m going to go postal soon.
Why doesn’t he realise what he’s perpetuating with racist and sexist slurs like that? Oh, that’s right, he’s got PRIVILEGE. White men have pretty much “ruled” the whole world, taking top spots in corporations and politics. How they want to see the world is fine and dandy for them because they’re the ones making the shots. It’s obvious that the guy who used such insult doesn’t see where other people stand. That is, the people who stand as second-class citizens. It’s too bad he’s swinging his massive head around, failing to see other social problems that people have because I would seriously love to take some time off and throw a dart at that massive head of his.
Oh, and don’t give me that, “There are slurs for men and white people too!” because that’s just a fucking shit argument. I fucking wonder why there are slurs like that in the first place? Probably in retaliation to the fucking offensive shit that’s already being thrown around like it doesn’t matter.
This is where I sometimes wish I could go all out Batman-style. I don’t like to intimidate, but it usually is the quickest and most efficient way to get your point across. So sometimes I wish I could capture guys like the one I just ranted about and hang him off the edge of a cliff and tell him to stop saying borderline hate speech like that because stuff like that is wrong. Oh, if only I could. I would then hire an interior decorator to furnish my Batcave.
