I do appreciate obvious assholes, drama-bombs and users for one reason:
They're obvious.
No muss, no fuss. They could state their attitude more clearly only if they had shirts printed up saying: "I'm an utter fuckwit. I'll abuse you, use you for everything you're worth then skip along to my next masterpiece of skullduggery." Hitler was an obvious asshole, glaring brightly like a bird-shit stain on a little black dress at the Oscars. Leona Helmsley? Obvious asshole. Manson, Drew Peterson, Rod Blagojevich, Ryan Seacrest. All assholes you could spot from orbit, and we owe them thanks for that. eternal gratitude to them because their douchery is like a spotlight in the night sky.
We all owe a debt of gratitude to the hot mess who spams X-Tube with self-porn and who has an entry in Encyclopedia Dramatica, because let's face it, he's saving us so much footwork. The evidence of his assholic vocation abounds; no one is going to get to know him and cry out, "this is totally out of the blue! He seemed so nice!"
It's the completely mental control-freak jackasses that cloak their craziness in down-home homilies, Great Plains Midwestern wisdom and a sense of sly, winking condescension that piss me off. The fellows (by that I mean some folks on LJ) that act like elder statesman, all the while putting forth their own personal agenda, subtly. Those who fan the flames of a problem to get what they want. The person who holds their relationship up as some kind of paragon, then fucks around on their partner all the time. The person who's first to scathingly criticize people for having too much sex, never mind that they are doing it when they're in a bathhouse. The lout who likes to imply that everyone is cheating when he himself is fucking his friends partner on the down-low. The drunk who spends five nights a week slurring his words only to call anyone smoking pot "addicts."
What irks me still more is when people lap that shit up like Mother's Milk, eagerly hanging on every word a "stealh asshole" dribbles out of their mouth. I mean, I get to see a lot of the irony that flies around both on LJ and in real life and sometimes just a little observation will tell you that the "sainted bear of LJ" is really kind of a self-serving dick who's giving out crabs faster than Red Lobster during "Crabmania." I merely become frustrated because I often feel like nobody else sees very obvious displays of hypocrisy from people that get lionized. Or worse yet, people quietly accept the behavior for a chance to bed the offender. Or, still gaspingly worse is when people ask my opinion, I give it, they then promptly ignore it then bitch to me about it six months later. Example:
Happless Victime 1: "Hey, I heard you dated XXXX XXXXXXX. He & I flirt on Bear411. So what's his story?"
Me: "He stole money from me & he's a crackhead."
Happless Victim 1: "Oh, that can't be true! He's so nice! You're just a bitter ex! (storms off)"
Six months later:
Happless Victim #1: "XXXX XXXXXXX totally got me hooked on crack and gave me herpes!!!! Why didn't you warn meeeeee???? (begin endless whining tirade)"
Me: "sigh"
This is why when asked I often say I don't understand people very well at all. Or, I do and people are just way crazier than I give them credit for, which is an alternately dissappointing thought.
Ah well. Try to avoid the stealth assholes, kids.
/rant off
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