Mr Crankypants is cranky (a short rant)

[drwex]

I'm having a hard time shaking a long-running cranky. Things that pissed me off in rapid succession this AM.

Pope gets huge headlines for saying he won't condemn gay priests. This dude has approximately the lowest bar in history to clear, given his predecessors. Let's see, I won't condemn someone for their inner thoughts. That raises me almost to the level of adult. It's sure as shit not adulation-worthy.

People emailing social lists saying "I'm 49 but I can pass for 32". Who gives a flying fuck? You may not look your age, but you should damn well act it. You want to date younger women? Whatever gets enthusiastic consent from your partners is OK by me. But, seriously, stop skeeving me out.

I think my problem is I have too high a standard for my fellow humans. And it's not even 9:45. Now to see if I can get through my day without cranking at my cow orkers.

ETA: took a brief walk, practicing my breathing exercises.

Comments

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Your second peeve reminds me of the guys who are in their 50s and who e-mailed me on OKCupid when I was in my 20s. They always said stuff like, "I'm young at heart." I took that as code for, "I'm immature, and I think that this somehow will help me get young women into bed." Ironically, these guys would have had a better shot if they hadn't tried so hard to downplay their age.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Also can I suggest more closely circumscribing your reading material...

And deep breathing.

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

Methinks there is extra cranky floating around in the northeast, looking for folks to latch on to. Shaping up to be the sort of week I want to spend on a desert isle just to avoid the infected.

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

I'm 44 but can pass for 12. So there. [nyah]

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Experience shows that expecting the great majority of your fellow human beings to treat each other as human beings is setting the bar too high.

Perhaps you should settle for "Not actively killing each other right now."?

[shades-of-nyx.livejournal.com]

I got that skeevy email. I'm glad it wasn't targeted, at least. Ewww.

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

Since my parents did the emotional equivalent of keeping me in a box for the first 20 years of my life, people often think I'm a lot younger than I actually am. I usually think of this as something I need to apologize for, not something I need to celebrate...

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

i never thought i'd start a comment with this phrase, but here goes:

in defense of guys who contact/attempt to date younger women -- at least some of them have no intention of ever treading the standard adult male path (marriage, kids, house, debt, work, debt, overwork, grave). for people whose similar-age friends have all started down that path they have no intention of going down -- what do they do for a social life? or should they sit at home watching videos all day? society has no good answer for them but "conform, dammit, or be the skeevy old man/woman in the corner". i'd like to have a better answer than that before we start playing the blame game.