Mean Streak

Originally Posted by Alice

Don't even lie. You're mean, too. What brings out the mean streak in you?

O man, there are so many things. I try to keep it under control in reality, which I've become a lot better about in the past few years, but some things just make my anger control go POP.

First thing I think of is ignorance. In fact, the other night, I was sitting in Friendly's with a few people where the waitress was a friend of one of the people I was with. She came and sat with us and started shit about black people. How blacks "all act" and shit. I wanted to slap the bitch, if only because I know a small-town mind bred her into thinking this.

I can't stand it when people are something they're not, either. They act or feel a certain way based on what a stereotype. I've seen SO MUCH of this, I have a feeling half the population out there has no idea who they really are. It's important to embrace your shortcomings and your assets. Don't fucking mold yourself to fit into a certain clique.

(And while thats usually limited to teenagers, I have seen SO MANY adults acting this way, it really bothers me.)

I can't stand feminists, either - mostly because every one I encounter is so blissfully selective about what they think "womens' rights" are. You want equal pay as men, but you expect men to maintain the position that they can't hit women as hard as they hit men. I want to cram dynamite down their throats.

I don't know - I guess I like moderation in my people.

And I am pretty sure a certain "meanness" lies in people, whether they like it or not. It just takes the right conditions to coax it out of people.

Jam it back in, in the dark.