So I'm still really mad about last night's BSG thing
So I'm going to just rant for a bit here and just bear with me. Feel free to skip over this if you're not invested.
So there's these people who come and hang out at a friend's every week and they make me really uncomfortable a lot because they're almost intentionally abrasive to me personally every week? and TL;DR about last night I made this one dickhole cry a bit after not backing down about BSG (they were dumb oh no I feel victimized by you being angry at a thing I said tears so I donât feel bad at all) but Iâm literally the only person who wonât back down when theyâre being gross.
And it was just a huge litany of grossness.
So someone brought up how they want to watch BSG at the next Friday thing and I was like âhell yeahâ and then this one girl named Rachael was like âugh no that show is so stupid.â And this other guy named Tony said âyeah itâs super shittyâ and you could just hear the collective gasp as everyone else in the room turned to me because I take that show very seriously and I owe so much of who I am to my experience with that show and I was speechless for a second and Rachael was like âno really Iâm sorry you like that crap itâs so silly like âoh no my boyfriend is dead because I passed his flight test because Iâm fucking himâ ugh sheâs so whinyâ and Tony was like âyeah she's really whiny and itâs so boring like me and Rachael watched two seasons and nothing happens they just complain about their problemsâ
And then when I started saying âok well let me tell you right now that youâre entirely wrongâ Rachael got upset and was like âno that show is just boring and I donât understand why people like itâ and then her boyfriend, Ashton, who is a GIANT DOUCHE came up to me and was like âlook dude nobody cares at all about what youâre saying so just shut upâ even though there were two other people (Fearezen and the host of the party) backing me up in the room and two others (Duverlierst and Crockerjames42) who texted me later saying âIâm glad you called them outâ so I guess heâd rather put someone down on a personal level than question his girlfriendâs dubious analysis of a CULTURAL MILESTONE. And it's not like this is the first time he's done something like this. He's consistently shutting people down (mainly me which may be why I'm taking this personally) in order to prevent people from arguing about stuff which, ok dude you don't like confrontation but instead of being silencing maybe you should confront the fact that your girlfriend says a lot of questionable stuff about things that people really like?
And then as I was leaving Tony came up to me and was like âIâm sorry you like a shitty show but your taste must be different than mineâ and I was like âwell then why didnât you start out acknowledging the fact that your preconceptions of the show limited your enjoymentâ and he was like âI just had fun teasing you about itâ and I said "what part of teasing someone is fun to you?" and thatâs when I tore in and we argued for like an hour about why the whole situation is fucked up and he didnât want to apologize for being an asshat and thatâs when he started crying.
Yeah. I have to deal with them every week but itâs only an annoyance until they shit on something which has informed the entire scope of my media consumption and has helped define who I am as a person, not to mention simultaneously being one of the best made pieces of television ever and redefining how we think about the entire medium.
And to touch back on their arguments? If you ever put down a show or a character (especially a female character) for being WHINY or for complaining too much you need to just stop and concede your entire argument because wow hey fictional characters' entire lives are pretty fucked up and I want to know what level of mourning you've arbitrarily established as "acceptable" in reaction to genocide you heartless and misogynistic bastard.
