It's so difficult not to be a misanthrope these days.
I have been posting off and on at a "Bargain Hunting Tips For Parents" message board located at a popular baby/parenting website. I will not list it here, but it is fairly easy to find if you care to. Now, some of the other boards on this site are known for their contentious members, but you would think that a community whose main topics include "great sale at Gap today" would have little chance of becoming so volatile.
In the past few months, I have seen posts bashing: Poor people. Rich people. Stay at home moms. Working moms. Public schooling. Home schooling. People who don't understand eBay. People who buy diapers on eBay. Doll collectors. People who ask to borrow things. People who lend things out and then expect them to be returned. People who "just go out and buy whatever they want". People who "will only buy something if it's on sale". Professional photographers who don't want their work illegally copied. Wal-mart, because their pictures don't look nice even though they are cheap. The Picture People, because their pictures are too expensive, even though they look very nice. Domestic cars. Foreign cars. People with white-collar jobs. People with blue-collar jobs. People with children. (WTF?!) People without children. People with MANY children. People with only one child. And on, and on, and on.
You know, I REALLLLLY want those coupon codes, but checking this damn message board is sort of making me want to kick people in the head. And reminding me that 99% of women are total stupid fucking bitches 99% of the time. For a split second, I considered checking out a dad message board, until I remembered that 99% of men are assholes 99% of the time. Which begs, then, a question:
Why not genocide?
I have been posting off and on at a "Bargain Hunting Tips For Parents" message board located at a popular baby/parenting website. I will not list it here, but it is fairly easy to find if you care to. Now, some of the other boards on this site are known for their contentious members, but you would think that a community whose main topics include "great sale at Gap today" would have little chance of becoming so volatile.
In the past few months, I have seen posts bashing: Poor people. Rich people. Stay at home moms. Working moms. Public schooling. Home schooling. People who don't understand eBay. People who buy diapers on eBay. Doll collectors. People who ask to borrow things. People who lend things out and then expect them to be returned. People who "just go out and buy whatever they want". People who "will only buy something if it's on sale". Professional photographers who don't want their work illegally copied. Wal-mart, because their pictures don't look nice even though they are cheap. The Picture People, because their pictures are too expensive, even though they look very nice. Domestic cars. Foreign cars. People with white-collar jobs. People with blue-collar jobs. People with children. (WTF?!) People without children. People with MANY children. People with only one child. And on, and on, and on.
You know, I REALLLLLY want those coupon codes, but checking this damn message board is sort of making me want to kick people in the head. And reminding me that 99% of women are total stupid fucking bitches 99% of the time. For a split second, I considered checking out a dad message board, until I remembered that 99% of men are assholes 99% of the time. Which begs, then, a question:
Why not genocide?
posted by Tina Bean at
4:52 PM
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