Yes, I'm talking to you.
I've received some negative feedback about my last post, which is understandable. I voiced my opinion on a couple's relationship and attacked their integrity.
First of all, though, my comments were not meant to berate either individual as a human being; just in that one facet of their lives.
Second of all, their relationship served simply as an example, a microcosm of the bigger picture, which was the loss of chivalry.
Someone commented to me that "it's pretty lame that you feel the need to comment on things that mean nothing to you."
Pardon me, but as a member of this society that is quickly going to Hell, I have every reason to comment on what I see is a problem. Don't tell me that I'm supposed to care only about things directly related to me. Issues have broader implications.
I gurantee you that conversations would get pretty dull pretty quickly if people only talked about themselves. Even the most conceited amongst us talk about other issues in an attempt to add more to the conversation. More importantly, though, these people bring up issues that they feel have a universal interest.
Take one of my friends. Let's say he starts to rant about uncleanliness. He starts to talk about how college kids leave their desks trashed, their clothes lying around the room, their beds unmade, etc. And, as an example, he points to me. Now, he doesn't live with me. Let's say he lives on another floor. My cleanliness habits don't affect him at all. But, maybe someone else's habits do affect him...or society's filth-ridden ways affect him. If I am an example of what he hates, why not use me as an example?
Is he wrong? Maybe. And I very well could be wrong in what I said as well. But it should not be discounted just because the example he pointed to had no relation to him.
I am an isolationist. People are always telling me how stupid that is, how you have to care about the world around you, not just your little cloister. Yet these same people criticize me for going outside my box and commenting on social problems.
I challenge any of you who think I shouldn't be talking about things that don't affect me. I challenge you to go just a week without discussing other people's lives.
Now, you can still think things. There's no way to stop people from thinking things. But I guess the argument these "high and mighties" have is that I openly talk about it. It's not that I post it, because I have mentioned everything I said aloud in the suite before I wrote it down.
So try it, tell me if it's a reasonable expectation of humanity.
Random Factoid: I'm not in the mood.
Pip pip.
2 comments:
Ryan - it's Carla from drood. I was on facebook wasting time during finals week, and I found your blog. Your last post I think is problematic not because you used people you know as an example, but because of the ideas you express. When I read your opinion that women should not TALK about sexual things, I was appalled. Now I certainly don't condone promiscuity or any of that. But I think it's important to realize that telling women not to talk about sexuality and relationships is like telling people they aren't allowed to explore an important part of themsleves. If your point was really that women shouldn't swear or make dirty sex jokes in public - well that's your opinion, and old fashioned as it is, you're entitled to it. But if you are saying that women specifically shouldn't talk about sexual things, then that is an obsolete and harmful attack against the "fair" sex.
this isn't meant as an attack on you - i just couldn't read your post without responding. i hope you had a good time during drood, because i know it must have been hard as a non theater major.
well, carla from drood, you are very civil and expressed your opinions very well, but this gentleman, as it were, is a dick and totally out of his mind.
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