John Werth
Feb 28, 2023

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Dude, you couldn't get under my skin with a scalpel. You're just one of a hundred guys like you I've encountered. You're funnier than some - you loudly deny being a bully when punching down is literally the definition. It's not just beating up a weaker person. Telling a racist, sexist, or homophobic joke, touching a woman in a way she doesn't want, etc. are just bullying in different forms.

I'm not adding depth and meaning, just pointing out that those extra levels exist, whether you mean for them to or not. Context is everything.

Hopefully you can get to there on your life's journey. It's taken me a while. The privilege that comes from being in the majority is like water to a fish, it's hard to know it's there.

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John Werth
John Werth

Written by John Werth

Musician and conductor, repairer of woodwinds, owner of dogs, band director, lapsed mathematician, and scribbler of thoughts on humor, politics or both at once.

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