Sticks and Stones...

You know those kids in the schoolyard that always went around hitting other kids for no reason? You know what I'm talking about, the kind that you stayed away from and always thought were mildly retarded? I think we've got one of those in the MBA program.

Steph's lovely blog, which discusses her views (as blogs tend to do), has suddenly been attacked by a schoolyard bully. And, as all bullies tend to be, this one's a coward, too afraid to man up. And we know its a man, and I'll tell you why in a second.

His first comment, well actually comments, because he made two under different names ("misc" and "anon" are the same person) really set the mood for the delight that he is. Here, he gallantly defends the Level pub night on Friday (cos every pub night needs a knight defending its perilous honour), and calls everyone that is going to attend the "Real" pub night - the one at Bedford, a loser. Of course, he claims to be attending it, but that's beside the point. The real doozy, which was deleted by Steph, was that he actually opened by making possibly the most derogatory comment about lesbians (way to play to the crowd, genius) I've read in a while. Did we learn nothing from the Imus incident?

The second burst of inspiration was here, in a conversation that I was actually a part of, and while Steph and I disagreed on most things related to it, we do agree that this guy is a world class weenie. Our man busts out the Darwinism, saying that survival of the fittest really means men should rule the world (or as the infamous saying goes "boyz rool, girlz drool"). He goes on to say that women are weak, and therefore "succumbed to allow male domination", and (I quote because it's really too precious to paraphrase):

for the most part around the world, homos are weak too until recently with their uprising against a natural system.

He closes with the stunner:

the less-privileged sometimes are comfortable where they are…any one thought of that….or else maybe most homos would come out of the closet, or create a system of their own?

Now, one's natural instinct would be to, I dunno... point, laugh, possibly shake one's head in dismay, and then let loose a verbal plethora of rebuttals. Maybe even a joke or two about erectile dysfunction.

But, I'm not going to. As much as I am a believer in spreading knowledge to cure ignorance, if someone's come this far, has gotten admission into a world class academic program, and existed in the world in general, and still carries these views, I don't have the energy to waste in trying to change them. I would have had and encouraged debate had he the balls to own up using his real name. The sad thing is that I probably know this person, and lord knows, I might even like and get along with them in real life.

Although I will say this. Lord help the woman or man (come on, can you say Repressed Sexuality?) he ends up with, cos he's going to be a real delight to come home to every night.