All day long I have been fuming about this and I am glad that I waited to post it. I COULD BURN

[davidthegnome]

57. There really aren't words

that can offer comfort in a situation like this. There is nothing I can say to make it better, no amount of apology I can offer that could even begin to approach justification for the male gender - and the way it has behaved. I can tell you that there are men out there who would gladly remove that piece of shit from this world. I can tell you that there are men who have suffered in similar ways - usually at the hands of other men - and so would ever inflict such suffering upon others.

Our society, our culture... the sick obsessions with celebrities, with violent porn, with so called athletes, so called super stars, who beat women, who have neither intellect nor compassion to be admired. The wealthy elite who don't really care enough to do anything about it, as, generally speaking, they are safe from the consequences of their actions which promote poverty for most of us.

It is about what we choose - but it is also about our circumstances. The crushing, soul-destroying effect of poverty on so many young men, I believe, turns men who might otherwise be decent... into something less than human, and even worse than monstrous. This is not to say that I have any sympathy, at all, for those who act as this man did... but that I expect that there will be more like him, if things do not improve somehow.

I have no compassion for a monster who would do things like this, because I too, am a man, and therefor somewhat monstrous in my own right. Yet I would never behave as he did, and I would happily obliterate any man who did.

I don't know what the solution is. Too many people are children themselves, trying to raise children. Too many of us are poorly educated, have illnesses we cannot be treated for, do not have access to the resources and assistance needed to combat the evils (and they are EVILS) of this society.

There are times when I am deeply ashamed to be a man of the human species. Yes, we are all monstrous in some regard... but not all of us are monsters of this variety. I am sorry.