I had the most humiliating experience of my life today at work.

[McCamy Taylor]

163. All bullies are scared little kids inside. That goes for the Kochs, too. And fascists.

Remember, you were not being attacked from a position of power. You were being attacked by people who hate themselves and who are afraid that they will be "found out" as the miserable failures that they believe themselves to be unless they constantly crush someone else under their boot heel.

I know that it is difficult to believe, but those seemingly arrogant women would become your best friends in the world if you listened to their hopes and fears in a nonjudgmental way and let them talk about all the real emotions that their families never allowed them to express. Given what happened to you, it would require the patience of a saint in order to make the effort.

It is funny what you learn as a doctor. People I would never have talked to in real life---they seem so stuck up, so rich, so snobbish---let down their hair, so to speak, and I discover what is beneath the social armor. People are frightened. They feel alone. They feel that they can not connect and they feel that they can not be themselves without being attacked and ridiculed. They will tell their doctor things that they will not tell anyone else---but they should be telling other people. If they could tell other people, the way that you are telling us now, DI, they would not be bullies.

The fact that you shared your experience with all of us at DU makes you a hero, Drunken Irishman. It is so incredibly hard for people to talk about their emotions, especially their fears, their sadness, their anger. But when one person does it, other people realize that they can do it, too. And if we were all more honest with each other, we would all be happier.

Here's to more of us sharing our feelings and fewer of us acting like bullies because we are too scared to share our feelings.