At first this rant was both a release of pent up anger, and also a parody of the pseudo-jock online speech. Eventually the rant took on a life of its own and I saw that my main readers were guys looking to read more pseudo-jock speech.
I understand that the days of kind yet strong men are probably gone, and that we worship the jocks and rock stars, but not the scientists and hackers. I’m not even sure those days ever existed in America, but I swear that people worshiped Einstein.
Today, he’d be stuck working at Google making adwords.
To these people, the men who look up to me because they think I’m mean, I ask you a small simple favor:
Find a hero who helps those who can’t help themselves.People like me aren’t the ones you should look up to. You honestly shouldn’t look up to anyone, but if you’re going to, find someone gentle, not someone tough.
Most importantly though, you will probably not find these people on the internet.
This rant is no more. I’m sure you can find copies online, but I own the copyright so you can’t publish it without permission. And, I won’t give permission.
— Zed