Reply #20: Maybe it's a feminist thing,

[beam me up scottie]

or maybe it's because I'm little

or maybe it's from growing up with all brothers who never wasted an opportunity to remind me of how much weaker I was

or maybe it's the leftover attitude from beating off 200 lb Marine Corps rocks who thought they could intimidate me into doing something I didn't want to do

or maybe it's an overactive defense mechanism I developed while being married to a bully for years

or maybe it's just because I'm an asshole

I don't really fucking care to analyze the reasons why I feel threatened and I really don't feel like I should have to justify why I refuse to let people walk all over me so that I will be "liked".

I just know that being nice to people like that has NEVER been the intelligent choice for someone like me who has always to fight for my goddamn rights.

Trust me, the lessons I've learned were hard ones.

I was stupid enough to think I could be "nice" to all the above mentioned people.

Guess where it got me.