My Rant

Okay, so ordinarily I like this website to be something authentic.  I write about what I’m feeling, for better or worse, and I usually try to avoid fluff.  But sometimes things in this universe drive me so crazy that’s it’s quite difficult to just keep my mouth shut.

So here we go.  Here is my list of things that just really piss me off these days.

1.  Rude People.  Now I know everyone can be rude every now and again, and sometimes the rudeness is completely justified.  But if someone cuts you off, is it really necessary to wave your middle finger out the window for three minutes for all the little kids in minivans passing by to see?  If you must, honk your horn.  Politely.  But anything more than that and you become the nuisance.

2.  Politicians.  If you want to impeach the president, then impeach the president.  This whole idea of suing him?  That’s dumb.  If we are going to go around suing politicians, then I have some former government officials whom I would like to sue for the pain and suffering I went through listening to them talk down to us for years.

3.  Internet Commenters.  I’m lucky that on this site, the comments I get are thoughtful, and kind, and I very much appreciate them.  But on other websites?  No such luck.  Today Lands End decided they were going to start making science shirts for girls instead of just boys.  “That’s cool,” I thought.  Apparently, I was the only one in the whole big wide world who thought so.  Everyone who commented appeared to be pissed that some people shop for their daughter’s clothing in the girl’s section as they all said, “They better not be pink.  Why not just shop the boy’s section?”  Really?  Lots of girl like pink.  You want girls to like science.  Make pink science shirts.  Enough said.

4.  STEM people.  I get it.  Science, technology, engineering, and math are important.  No argument there.  I’m all for it.  But you know what?  So are English and literature and art and theater and music.  If we want to become more competitive as a nation in the STEM fields, then we need to improve STEM education.  If we want to become more humane as a nation, we need all the other stuff as well.

5.  Passive Aggression.  If you are pissed, be pissed.  If you are irritated, be irritated.  If you are sad, be sad.  Don’t smile through clenched teeth while sharpening the claws behind your back.  And definitely do not play pretty for the world and then bite in private.

6.  Keeping Up with the Kardashians.  I never liked this show.  I would always shut if off when it would come on.  I couldn’t stand it.  But then I was flipping channels a couple of weeks ago, and it wasn’t as bad as I remembered.  Of course they are a bunch of self-involved, over-priviledged, fluffernutters, and the step-father Jenner guy has something seriously wrong with his lips.  But they also are more interesting than I am.  They are fun to watch.  And I hate that.  I hate that more than I can say.  I do not want to be a person who knows what is going on in the world of the Kardashians.  But I do.  Feel free to judge me.

Well, that’s about all I can think of at the moment.  What about you?  What pisses you off?