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Jack Rabbit

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17. This short male has little use for "alphas"
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 04:08 PM
Oct 2012

Call me resentful, but being singled out as something of a lesser because I had less body mass had gotten old by the time I was in second grade. While most treated me fairly, the alpha males of the schoolyard were the jack asses who tried to get me to bend to their wills by showing me a doubled up fist or excluding me from the game altogether. There were always the occasional one who didn't need any provocation to slap me around. When caught by a responsible figure of authority, then it was "But I didn't do nuttin'." Fucking liars.

Excuse me, but the alpha males of the world aren't automatically worthy of respect. I'm sure some of those punks grew up to be drug kingpins and others banksters.

Mitt Romney, both in his demeanor and his biography, reminds of the worst of them. I'm sure that gay kid to whom he took a pair of scissors wasn't the first kid he bullied. As CEO of Bain Capital, he simply adapted his inner bully to symbolically push around the other kids, except the other kids are now the working people whose jobs he sent to China. Instead of threatening his victims with a pair of scissors, he threatens them with law suits. Oh, yes, and he demonstrated in spades Wednesday night, he's a fucking liar.


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And given women make up the majority of the population ohheckyeah Oct 2012 #1
Very good point. pamela Oct 2012 #2
Let's get out the ohheckyeah Oct 2012 #3
my husband sat thru it all. he is voting obama. BUT... he was really in the camp that romney won. seabeyond Oct 2012 #4
That's interesting. Thanks for sharing that. pamela Oct 2012 #5
Me neither I came on the board and was surprised treestar Oct 2012 #15
my hubby too mrs_p Oct 2012 #6
i clarified my post. same in our house. i am way seabeyond Oct 2012 #7
Interesting - this fits with my reaction vs my boyfriend's Lucy Goosey Oct 2012 #8
male/female thing pamela Oct 2012 #12
It is kind of amusing how different the male and female reactions were Jennicut Oct 2012 #9
I'm a guy and I thought Mitt just dicked his way through it. phleshdef Oct 2012 #10
Actually, my husband said pretty much what you said. pamela Oct 2012 #13
Hehe, maybe we both just had good mothers. phleshdef Oct 2012 #18
My boyfriend thought he was a total dickhead Michigan Alum Oct 2012 #20
Hey, welcome to DU! pamela Oct 2012 #21
Thanks! Michigan Alum Oct 2012 #22
We as women experience a disproportionate amount of being talked over in our lives. Arugula Latte Oct 2012 #11
Yeah, I REALLY hate that. pamela Oct 2012 #14
I still think Romney won the debate, but Obama will win and is winning the aftermath game tarheelsunc Oct 2012 #16
This short male has little use for "alphas" Jack Rabbit Oct 2012 #17
... CatWoman Oct 2012 #19
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