Stuff that bugs me
One of the things that bugs me is that when people start talking about that “stuff that bugs them” they tend to talk about things that are totally inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. They’re bugged by oh… people that use the word “ain’t” or people who drive slow in the fast lane. And this is a topic that pops up in discussion or on message boards over and over again.
There are a lot of things in this world that bug me, but most of them are things on a large scale…
It bugs me when people who are supposed to represent me in congress instead represent big business.
It bugs me that there are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of rapes, murders, and traffic deaths each year.
It bugs me that the only kind of reporting on that fact ISN’T about the majority, and how to cut those numbers down, but rather on every minute development, or lack there of, in the case surrounding a celebrity.
It bugs me when I see reports of people talking about how it’s okay to rape, murder, or injure someone because of their religion. That “a woman deserves to die” if she leaves an arranged marriage. That a woman who dresses without certain clothing ‘deserves’ to be raped, and that a culture a man comes from can excuse his behavior in another. It bugs me when young children stone a woman because she eats on Ramadan.
It bugs me that when I talk about how horrid those particular people are, and suddenly I am either put upon by people defending their actions, or everyone says ‘what do you expect from them’?
It bugs me when members of that religion are injured because ‘their religion is wrong and they shouldn’t have it’, and “all of them are terrorists”!
It bugs me that the FDA keeps putting more and more delays on life saving drugs, because in a -few- cases they released a drug to early and it caused deaths or unintended side effects in the public.
It bothers me that my medical costs are skyrocketing to the point that I can hardly afford a simple doctor’s visit, and that anything I buy costs more because of the sense of entitlement that some cultures in America, England, and Australia are developing. As does the trend of people to find against large corporations because ‘they can afford it’ even if they weren’t at fault.
It bugs me that the finding is because the jurors believe that the plaintiff is ‘entitled’ to some money because of their unfortunate circumstances, or their outright be damned stupidity.
It bugs me that it costs more to defend against these lawsuits and win than settle out of court, thus encouraging these stupid, unethical suits.
It bugs me that a large portion of the feminists out there that aren’t fighting for equal rights, but for women to have more rights than men, as well as all of the privileges that were an attempt to make up for women being second class citizens. And the priviledges are vast.
It bugs me that, as a man, I am told time and again through the media, and the cries of feminists that I am a creature of instinct and passion, and that even though I feel that way and must be lying if I say I don’t, it is wrong for me to feel that way. And that any opinion about gender differences I may bring up that doesn’t paint women in a glowing light is suddenly considered sexist.
It bugs me that for a long period of my life I was raised mostly by strong women, yet if I use social tactics that “belong” to the sex of my teachers, people stare at me like I have two heads. If I ever utter the phrase “It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it”, women stare at me balefully for using a tactic they claim as their exclusive territory as they are supposed to be the gentile, sensitive sex, and any time I show a woman how brutish she has been, it is like an attack on everything that is good and right in the world. And any time I say it to a man, it’s like I’m suddenly less of a man.
It bugs me that people use a label for a group of people, or a condition, or the name of my god as an epithet against things they don’t like, or as a swear word. “That’s so gay” “That’s retarded” “Jeeze! Why the hell would you do that?” It bugs me because not only are they insulting a person, or a concept, rather than discussing what they think is wrong with it… but they are degrading that class of people, or my God.
It bugs me that for some reason people view insulting each other as a fun joke and that people think the words ‘just kidding’ solve all problems and hurt that they may have caused.
It bugs me that companies put chemicals in their food and drink specifically to make you hungry so that you’ll eat more of their food.
It bugs me that the national government keeps sucking up more and more power and impinging upon our rights and freedoms, and steeple just shrug and say “who cares” or “what can we do”? And that these freedoms, BOUGHT with the blood of my ancestors, is being so frivolously thrown away by the American people and their government.
It bugs me that the government is regulating businesses less, and individuals more.
It bugs me that because I’m a Christian, some people automatically assume that I want to control how they live their lives through the law, or that I’m trying to condemn them to hell fire.
It bugs me that so many Christians are causing this image and stereotype, and that think that it’s okay to force our religion on others through the law.
It bugs me that some (not all) Atheists, who have a -religion- of ‘there is no god’, think it’s okay to force any mere -mention- of religion out of our society, and any tip of the hat to it in the laws.
It bugs me that people who try to do the right thing are often said to be fools rather than brave and moral. Let me remind you about Don Quixote de la Mancha, who was all three. But many are the latter two alone.
It bugs me that any time I talk about stuff like this, people view it as a rant, rather than heart felt frustration over what I view to be ills of our society.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:23 am
I don’t think people feel you are wrong to use the tactics of the opposite gender. It is just so surprising that they don’t have a ready, canned response for it. It takes people awhile to process what was happend and decide how to proceed.