These are people who parade around in the open declaring exactly what kind of dirtbags they are and Nathan Larson has actually tried to get into a position of power to make his sick fantasies a reality crossing the threshold from “asshole” to “legitimately dangerous” and yet they don’t seem to warrant any real scrutiny by the general public. Certainly none with consequences.
Every time I think that there are people out there who spend every day under the unforgiving suspicion of people looking for any excuse to tear them down with the mindset that they don’t deserve anything they have built or worked for in their lives including the basic rights that are supposed to be guaranteed to everyone and must “earn” them constantly every second by being better than the best just to be barely tolerated, that their every grievance is an act of aggression to be retaliated against, that they simply don’t “belong” places anyone else is free to walk about while monsters like this barely get so much as side-eyed by the public even as they scream about how oppressed they feel by simply being told “no” or those rare occasions where they encounter the most limited of consequences for their actions I want to scream.
Women being told to “know their place” and stay out of “man’s domain” of being able to work for a living instead of being railroaded into enforced dependency on another or even voice a thought in public without being immediately set upon with dick pics and rape threats by hateful douchebags while being accused of only wanting men’s attention by men who are deeply offended at being ignored by women. Minority groups treated like criminals and invaders, every contribution they make to society treated instead as a theft or else claimed as a nebulous collective achievement of the majority, expected at all times to show unwavering deference to people deliberately trying to provoke or even attack them justifying everything after the fact and simply finding new justification for every old one that falls apart. LGBTQ individuals treated as deviants, slandered, and portrayed as single minded predators, their every action turned into something aggressively sexual from having a picture of a loved one on a desk to saying “I love you” to say nothing of the physical affection a straight couple doesn’t have to think twice about like hugs or kisses on the cheek or even just lingering eye contact. A sharp contrast to the unwanted groping, aggressively sexual conversation that goes far past “flirting” and well into harassment, and unsolicited dick pics women are told to just expect and live with. And religious minorities who are the only ones told to keep their faith to themselves in contrast to those whose integrity is questioned for not making overt public displays of the faith in favour, who get to ask why their prayers aren’t forced upon everyone under threat of punishment for non-participation, who get to pass into law that their faith trumps reality.
People like that have their right to even exist within the sight of others constantly questioned and must eternally work against extremely aggressive presumption that simply never goes away. Nathan Larson and sick assholes like him can register a domain outright called pro-rape.com, discuss how he wants to fuck his daughter, and run for goddamned public office completely unimpeded and the worst they face is being ignored… until they are wronged or “wronged” by someone who finally takes issue with them. If a police officer were to subject him to “stop and frisk” there would be an uproar. If someone were to call him a child sexual predator he could sue them for slander despite his comments on public forums. If a teenage girl had to physically fight him off she’d not only be treated like a slut for his interest in her completely displacing all personal responsibility for one’s conduct but there would be men lining up to petulantly say “how are we supposed to know what the rules are, I’d better have a big enough bank account in case a woman 'changes her mind’ on me” falsely implying that there was some kind of consent to begin with or that consent is simply the “default” state and those men’s entitlement to feel like victims in the waiting is more guaranteed to be treated as legitimate than the actual victim who has already been victimized.
Sometimes I feel like I’m going to snap. Sometimes I actually want to just snap and become the embodiment of every evil ever minimized and unleash myself as a scourge upon those who try to normalize such evil. To hunt down people like Larson and repurpose them as a cockring for the next ass to earn my ire. But then I realize the minute I stop holding myself to a standard I’ve let them win. I refuse to let people like that win, especially by the “default” setting for which they’ve lived their entire lives.