oh, gross!
Published by Elizabeth M on November 29, 2010 on ihollaback.org
I was working on changing my car’s flat tire while it sat parked at the intersection of the street and an alley. Pausing for a moment, I looked up the alley, and found myself staring at a man with his pants at his knees, shaking his hips and nude genitals around in the air.
With a look of disgust I reached for my phone, but wasn’t able to get his picture before he pulled up his britches and took off. By the time the police were there, he was long gone, but I hope someone else gets a picture of him soon!
He looked to be in his 50′s and had a large beer-gut. Short, light-colored hair (grey maybe?), average height from what I could tell.
COMMENT:
The question here, as always, is: did Elizabeth M feel threatened and in fear for her safety? The answer is quite clearly, NO! She had a “look of disgust” and not fear, or anxiety, or concern, etc. She thought it was “gross”, but gross isn’t usually a description of life-threatening. Also, she “reached for her phone” to take a picture…If she was fearful of an assault she would have fled, rather than try to take a picture. And so on.
Moreover the guy was in his fifties and had a large beer gut, so it is unlikely he would have posed much of a threat.
So the question is, if there was no threat of harm, why the f**k did Elizabeth M call the cops and waste the taxpayers money? And the answer is, by her account, that she was “disgusted”. So the question now is: is a woman’s disgust reason enough to call out the troops and have a man sent to jail? I think the answer to that question is self-obvious.
Sure, we can understand Elizabeth M may not have liked what she saw, but that is not a sufficient reason to call out the army! We all of us see things we don’t like, but if we get hung up on all the many unseemly incidents we see and don’t like, we’ll just make life a misery for ourselves and everyone around us
Elizabeth M and others of her ilk think that HOLLA-ing is a badge of honour, that you are brave enough to stand up and be counted. And it can be! But it defeats the purpose if you start holla-ing about all sorts of imaginary wrongs. If you do that often enough, holla-ing will lose its meaning and people will stop taking notice. The worst that happened to Elizabeth M by her account is that she was “disgusted”. Let me ask you: is that reason enough to be “holla-ing”? It makes about as much sense as howling at the moon! Who gives a shit?!
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