There are actually people like this... I know, I live with one of them

Today I rushed around half as much as I will tomorrow, getting things done that I shouldn't have left to the last minute. A few hours of that time was spent in the company of my brother and a friend of his... neither of them are too much to handle on their own (although this depends on how charitable my brother is feeling), but oh man, together I swear I wanted to jump out of the car just to make it stop.

You see, they are 'wiggers'. They think they are 'African-American' and act accordingly. Driving around Vancouver to accomplish my various errands with poor-quality rap blasting out of the car's poor-quality speakers... it was a nightmare. Add to this their inane conversations about how 'gangsta' things like guns, money laundering and general criminalism is, throwing in disparaging comments about minorities (yeah I know, that's ironic) and women, and don't forget a generous amount of profanity for good measure. It helps to emphasize things.

Needless to say, I felt like my mind was melting out my ears. I also realised that what little I knew about his female friends was totally overwhelmed by the fact that they put up with this on a regular basis. Frankly, this would either make them too stupid to realize how cruel and disparaging this behaviour is, too weak to stand up for themselves and risk (gasp!) losing these guys as their friends or, worst of all, so vapid that they actually believe that they deserve to be spoken to as objects and have no problem at all with their male friends propagating that sort of thing. Frankly it is women who are responsible for 50% of the sexist attitudes that our society upholds. If we aren't willing to stand up for ourselves and insist that we be treated with respect, how can we expect to induce change in a society that we claim is keeping us down?