Idiots, Idiots Everywhere...
I don't mean to post so many rants. Really, I don't. I'm a lovely person, if I do say so myself. It's just, the Universe gives you so much material to work with, I would hate to be wasteful, you know?
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So, rant of the day. Some time ago, I made a Quora account, fuck knows why. I guess I was researching something. Or something. Anyway, ever since, I've had the pleasure of getting regular updates from them via email. And boy, do I regret my actions.
For example, only this morning I got a question by a mother (though I use the term loosely) asking the strangers on the Internet if it would be alright for her grown-up son to sleep in the same room as her young teen daughter. First of all, if you need to ask some people you've never met on some website whether your child could potentially turn pedophile against his own sister, than man oh man, have you got bigger issues than who sleeps where...
Seriously, who are these people? Who thinks about such big, hard questions and goes 'nah, I won't ask family or friends, God forbid I should discuss it with my two children. Nah, I'll just ask some strangers online okay? kewl'.
And while that is pretty disturbing, you should read some of the answers.
He's a man. She's a girl. She's aware of her developing body.
Umm...yes? And?
a child should not be sharing with an adult. A female should not be sharing with a male. Particularly as your daughter is a young teenager who will be menstruating
What, all the time you mean? What is this, some cheap horror flick with blood spraying everywhere? I would really ask if this particular user has had any experience with menstruation. Really, even ever heard what it entails... Given that it seems to be a woman, it's even more upsetting.
Facts show that it's family and friends who are sexually abusive to children. Sigh
I didn't capitalize the 'facts', they did. So yeah, obviously a water tight explanation if Facts show. Seriously, I can't even begin to address what's wrong with this comment. It's like, don't look now, but your son may just be a filthy child molester. I don't know him obviously, but I don't trust him, man, I just don't.
To be fair, there are one or two comments pointing out they both might want their privacy and one even tells the OP that it's horrible to even assume something might happen.
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This is of course just one example of a vast array of stupidity . Obviously, the questions vary. A particular favorite is 'I'm 20 years old. How do I make the most out of my 20s?' - step one, stop asking the advice of strangers online. Seriously, if you're gonna live your life by their rules, you're pretty much fucked anyway.
But we'll make allowances for the youth of the OP.
There is also the one that says 'my 11 year old son is getting interested in playing video games, but I don't want to introduce him to that yet' - wait, what? What don't you want to introduce him to? It seems you and I have very different ideas about what video games entail.
Another particular favorite is the mother concerned over the fact her 8 year old may or may not be using the bidet for sexual gratification. I mean, fuck, man, I cringe to even write that. How do you discuss your child discovering her sexuality with the world wide web? Seriously...and an even more pressing question, shouldn't condoms be mandatory for these people? The first and fourth, definitely.
Anyway, this is all just a sample of the staggering amount of stupidity that is out there. Collected over a week of emails. You know, I always think I know how stupid people are and then, something always happens to prove me wrong.
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Oh well, I've finished my rant now and am all better. But some people actually live this.
Cheers,
What I have learned here is that there is a tag called #RANT and I will use it at some stage. The rest...Well, not a lot of sense to made there, not in your words of course, but the subject matter. People, huh?
I know, they're always a marvel... Well, a #rant tag is always useful, methinks ;)
A well-placed #rant can be one of life's most valuable investments.
Ironically, that site just popped up when I was googling my questions about Jehovah's Witnesses last night (I too had a run-in with them this week.) Someone asked my question and the answer was written with good information...but no grammar. I mean, I basically won the lottery as far as getting a good answer, I shouldn't have expected punctuation too.
As far as the menstruation thing, maybe that was a completely ineffective way of bringing up the concern of a possible pregnancy should the unlikely incestuous union come to pass? Lol. That is the only thing that slightly makes sense.
Well sorry, but you should've known you were asking too much :P Theres too typez of people in da world, them wid answers, and them withn't.
It's a good point, hadn't thought of that...but doesn't it seem weird that this answer's attitude is like okay, so your kids are gonna indulge in a bit of underage incest, but bear in mind she might get pregnant...like, it's okay up till that point :))
I agree with @allover, slightly making sense is the only thing that can be said about some of these answers :))
Oh and what happened with the JW? :O
"slightly" being the operative word here @ginnyannette.
Ah, my friend... there's an important rule of the internet.... 'never read the comments'. Even Wreak-It-Ralph 2 tries to teach this to the kids.
I've been thinking a lot about this... wondering if humanity is, ah, dumber than ever... and I've come to realise that people have always been terrible, and had terrible, terrible opinions. The only difference is that it used to be much easier to avoid those people. We've all had uncles with stupid theories or those neighbours that forced you to chat with them... until we all moved into apartments so we didn't have to talk to anyone.
People will always be the worst, and 'the comments' will prove that to you every time.
I'm aware that I'm writing a comment, on the internet, but I dunno, Steem seems a little more intelligent than Quora, YouTube, etc etc...
Firstly, thanks for ranting...Me likely.
Now, I never knew that website existed and I’ll never actually see it because it sounds like shit. People asking strangers about some of the most intimate and personal things? Not-legit. Still, people do the same on other social media’s of course so maybe that’s the norm.
I don’t know how it all works however I’m sure Adam D’Angelo is smiling on his way to the bank with the mountain of cash he’s reaping. (That’s the CEO).
I guess there’s always people out there in this fucked up world who others can exploit. The scary thing is that the people asking and answering on that site are asking and answering on that site! I mean WTF!
I’m actually amazed you haven’t deleted your account HD. It sounds like a quagmire of smelly, runny, gloopy shit. You might be better-served to remove yourself from it. Nothing for brilliant minds like yours to gain there.
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