(03-15-2017, 08:18 PM)German Wrote: I think a few people here need an anger management class...
I presume you are referring to me, considering I am the only individual willing to state that these insults have angered me...
You are entitled to your opinion.
However, I posit that any man, under any normal conditions, when directly insulted by an individual they do not personally know, would be angry.
These are insults, designed and intended to degrade and offend the person being insulted. I AM the person being insulted. It is very odd that one would go so far out of their way to insult someone, and then feign surprise when the intended recipient is actually insulted.
Picture, if you will, a fine Saturday morning in the local coffee shop. KAV walks into said coffee shop and sees me, bearded and unshaved, and initiates a conversation by stating that he "...CANNOT STOMACH fools who go out unshaven as some statement of individuality masking slob toilet matching their slobwear...."
How does a rational and sane human being imagine that conversation going, face to face, in a public venue?
If you think I would be one to ashamedly sit there and in cowardice allow KAV to make these bold and insulting statements directly to me, you are sorely mistaken.
If, on the other hand, you feel that this conversation would erupt in a rather loud disagreement, you would very likely be correct. I would very clearly tell KAV precisely where he could stick his opinion of my facial hair, and I would not be so quaint as to avoid the use of the profanity that his statements deserve, nor would I hesitate to tell him explicitly what he can do with the mouth that chose to utter it. In fact, I would offer to help him with closing the mouth that offered such a direct insult to me, and the result would likely be "furniture moving" in said public venue.
[please note that this is not a threat, it is a description of the most likely outcome of a hypothetical encounter.]
Now...the internet being what it is, I fully accept that KAV did not intentionally insult me directly with his words. This may or may not be true, but I am willing to assume such until he tells me explicitly that he meant to insult me. With that assumption in mind, I have made a very conscious effort to point out precisely why his words were seen as insulting, and why I feel that insults of this nature should not be so readily and easily vomited upon the pages of this forum.
If that means that in your opinion I "...need anger management...", so be it. However, let it be clear that I have controlled my anger in every response, and explicitly avoided directly or indirectly insulting or confronting in an argumentative manner those that have chosen to disclose their disrespectful view of men with facial hair.
I, personally, believe that the restraint shown in response to these insults is far and away more respectful than that which was shown by uttering these insults in the first place.
