People.

I may have mentioned before the queer hesitation I always experience whenever I write a blog about people, especially if it's directed at one particular person. I have yet to understand my misgivings about this practice, as it has yet to backfire on me and those blogs are some of the most satisfying to write. I suppose I always have the slight underlying fear that the person in question will read the blog, take offense, and retaliate in an unnecessarily extreme way. This fear is totally irrational, obviously, as the worst thing most people would do is write a retaliatory blog, which is also unnecessary because I never intend these blogs to be attacks -- simply observations. However, there are people in the world who take observations as a kind of attack, overreacting to even the slightest descriptive measure. Although I have many pet peeves, this is probably one of my biggest. I hate it when people use apostrophes wrong, I hate it when people refuse to put any effort into their spelling, I hate it when people don't look you in the eye when talking to you, but most of all I hate it when people can't hear themselves described without getting all offended. Perhaps that's a function of delusions of being different, and perhaps it's because of being raised in a non-supportive environment. I doubt I'll even know, but there is a point when people need to get over it. I think that's where a lot of the race debate comes from. People don't like having their personal appearance noted, but that's really just a symptom of a twisted society, because people have been raised so weird that they can't accept themselves or other people. This thought needs to be developed on more.