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Aug. 24th, 2008 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhIt may well be a personal failing, but there are two sure ways to make me so angry I can't see straight. The first is to laugh at me when I'm angry. I hate not being taken seriously; it makes me apoplectic.
The second is to condescend to me. It's (hopefully) the only time I become an intellectual snob. I am smart enough to keep up with anyone—and even if they take a left turn into their own specialty, I know how to ask the right questions. So when someone snidely implies that I "just don't get it", or pats my little head, or generally acts superior to me, I pretty much want to knock their block off. I have had an exchange with a fandomer in the past who was so condescending to me that I have never spoken to him again, and have nothing good to say about him now. (And yes, if you ask me, I'll tell you who.)
This may be why I can never live in England. I'd probably be furious 24 hours a day.
ETA: So this doesn't come across as being passive aggressive or going behind someone's back, I did confront the person who was condescending to me this evening directly, in a thread over at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fandomsecrets. But they irritated me so much that I had to get out my leftover frustration lest I get grouchy all over poor Ali!
The second is to condescend to me. It's (hopefully) the only time I become an intellectual snob. I am smart enough to keep up with anyone—and even if they take a left turn into their own specialty, I know how to ask the right questions. So when someone snidely implies that I "just don't get it", or pats my little head, or generally acts superior to me, I pretty much want to knock their block off. I have had an exchange with a fandomer in the past who was so condescending to me that I have never spoken to him again, and have nothing good to say about him now. (And yes, if you ask me, I'll tell you who.)
This may be why I can never live in England. I'd probably be furious 24 hours a day.
ETA: So this doesn't come across as being passive aggressive or going behind someone's back, I did confront the person who was condescending to me this evening directly, in a thread over at
fandomsecrets. But they irritated me so much that I had to get out my leftover frustration lest I get grouchy all over poor Ali!
