Will that cure him of his refusal
to be a reactive homohater?
Oh, I am no stinking victim. I said I took care of him didn't I? I learned to take care of myself verbally and physically.
Back then, I was 5' 4" and weighted 135 pounds. I am considerably bigger and very well muscled and physically fit. I learned real fast to make those wanting to victimize me know the sting of a turned table.
For example, when I was a tree planter working in Hood River, Oregon, I drove my car into Portland to enjoy the weekend. Walking from the one block nig Powell's Book Store a tall thin kid waved and said, "Hi!" and whirled into a roundhouse kick.
I took the blow in the neck and had slipped into a back stance to keep a good anchor. I then moved forward and delivered a front snap kick and grabbed him by the neck to give him some ...... street fighting lessons with some punches I learned growing up around New Haven, Connecticut.
The police broke it up, and it turned out this guy was cruising down the street picking on street kids and soft bellied guys frequenting nearby clubs.
I was satisfied with that wide eyed look of incredulousness he had when I barely moved when he kicked me, and declined to press the cops to charge him. Though they did get him for kicking in the teeth of one skinny kid who had been sitting in the street panhandling.
I am far from being a Rambo class bad a*s, but I pride myself at handling my own scraps as best I can.
I work out, do not smoke, use drugs or drink, and even if someone can kick my butt, he will know aches and pains for his trouble taking me on.
Many guys who get picked on as kids either get very tough, or become professional victims in response to bullies. I am to fiercely independent to waste time hand washing a hair shirt, or playing the, "poor me" game. ;-)
LOL. Thats funny but I think we need to give people a bit of leeway if they are speaking from a personal experience that corresponds to the article.
Let me try to explain what I think is wrong with all this 'groupism', religion and politics included:
The main reason everyone expresses such cries of 'tolerance' and 'condemnation' is because we all have become both extremist and absolutist. Our fallacy is to claim liberalism or homosexuality or Islam or fill-in-the-blank is THOROUGHLY wrong and destructive and must be fought and condemned at all costs.
On one level it is an arms race of rhetorical hyperbole in a war for the public mind, but the true enemy of us all is the nefarious elements that are promoting all these 'issues' in order to confuse, divide, fatigue and numb us in the hopes that we will disengage or waste energy on political triviality.
It is designed to make politics insane and make non-involvement attractive.
Dont take the bait.