JUST SAYING (any gender, late teens through early twenties)
Hey, Jerry, Jerry, you don't have run away, okay? I'm not mad.
Jerry?
Yeah... I'm not mad. Really. I mean, hey, I'm a political science major. I should get used to being slammed. You wanna slam me on your blog, that's fine. That's. Fine. That's your freedom of speech, right? Yeah...
I'm only a little concerned about your tone. Because the way you describe me, you're describing me as one of the "mosquitoes"-- that is the word you used right? -- me and all the rest of the... "whining blood suckers that need to be cleared out."
So, I just think, "well, what's he mean by 'cleared out'"? And it's talking about killing or it could sound like that, you know? Yeah...
And again, it's your freedom of speech but I'm a little concerned for you Jerry because campus now has a new kind of freedom of self-defense, you know, people can have hand guns in classrooms, just in case there's another... yeah.
So, I think about that and I think about you and how you don't seem to have a lot of friends on campus and you wear that army jacket and those combat boots and I'm just concerned because it SEEMS like with all the violent language on your blog, you MAY BE giving off the impression of someone, forgive me, someone similar... to a school shooter.
And the other students with guns might start picking up on that and I wouldn't want you to feel at risk every time you reach into your pocket or you backpack or if you want to keep drawing attention to yourself with the BLOG...
I mean, no big thing, I'm just saying. I'm just. Saying. Right? That's just me exercising MY freedom of speech, right? Yeah...
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