Your opinion means nothing to us (unless we agree with it).

I’d like to take a minute from all the witty and humorous Halloween related banter to address something that I can’t help but feel very discontented with. That is: People giving other people their opinion when no one asked for it.

If you’ve never read our short (but growing) list of hate-mail, you’ll notice that all it really amounts to is pussies saying how rude and offensive we are, and how we hurt their/other people’s feelings. But who are these other people that they speak of? When they say that we’re being offensive, is it because we’re saying that women are inferior, or that schools should be racially segregated? Is it because we have some inherent streak of evil ignorance that precludes us from being accepting and kind hearted individuals to those that don’t share the same physical characteristics as us? Or is it simply that those who find the need to tell us how we make them feel simply have a difference of opinion, and because they have stumbled upon ours, have become upset over the fact? Is it really righteous to tell us that we’re ignorant and jaded, or is that just self righteousness? Is telling us that our opinion doesn’t count for shit because we make a few spelling or grammatical errors or because we’re rude and less than well mannered really anything more than the proverbial pot calling the kettle black?

Me personally, I’m an atheist. (I can already hear the hate-mail pouring in.) But I don’t walk up to a guy in a Jesus Saves t-shirt and tell him how ignorant he is, or how offensive and rude he’s being. Nay, I simply disagree with him and keep my opinion to myself. I’ve on more than one occasion had a confrontation when wearing my Bad Religion shirt (the logo for those of you who’ve spent the majority of their lives sucking on their mothers tit is a cross with a red circle and slash… think ‘no smoking’, only ‘no cross’). My only argument to them was “Just because you don’t agree with how I feel doesn’t give you the right to tell me I shouldn’t express it.”

Now take and apply that same logic to this website. Would you ever email a porn site and tell them that porn offends you and that they should be more considerate? No. You simply avoid porn sites. And if you should someday accidentally stumble across one, you quickly exit out of that window and move on. So why the fuck can’t people extend us the same courtesy?

PEOPLE: If you think we’re ignorant drunks who should have stayed in their basement smoking bongs, listening to Slayer and throwing Roman salutes in jest, just fucking ignore us. Don’t immerse yourself in our missives and journaling and find reasons to support your cause. Just go the fuck away.

It’s a simple matter of free speech and the availability of a public platform from which to exercise that right. Never have we made a post saying “Hey, you, if you don’t like us, please, by all means, tell us why.” We’re simply a bunch of men who share common interests, and, more importantly, similar feelings about society who have come together to try and appeal to and interact with other like minded people. We have never gone out of our way to piss people off for any other reason than to point out to them their own think skin, lack of sense of humor, and our own amusement. It’s been said that when we offend someone, we put them on the defensive. But when you think about it, that’s just because people are reacting to what we’re saying with out interpreting our message and using it as a different perspective from which to view themselves/their lives. By that logic, people getting offended and telling us we’re wrong, is really just them being close minded.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying we’ve never intentionally used words that are harmful or ‘mean’ or ‘rude’. Of course we fucking have, and we’ll continue to do so. We do it because in this watered down world of desensitized wishy washy grey, it’s an attention getter. “Oh my God, he just said fat people are bad.” Yeah, no shit we did. It’s because fat people are bad. Not that they’re bad people, hell, I’ve met a lot of fat people that I like. I just don’t like looking at them. And who does? Of course we put up pictures of boobs simply for the sake of appreciating them and not the women that are attached to them. But we’re not saying women only amount to boobs. No, we’re simply admiring one part of a few particular women. It would be the exact same thing if we did a spread on beautiful bodies of water in different states. We wouldn’t be saying that the value of those states is based on their bodies of water; we’d simply be saying “See that water? That’s one of the things that makes this state cool.” Hell yes we made fun of those little androgynous fucking weirdos running around in all black talking about “the darkness with in their strife torn soul”… Goths. But, c’mon, who the fuck doesn’t make fun of those kids? I mean, really? Just look at them. They look like extras from a Beyond The Thunder Dome side show attraction. But that’s not to say we don’t like bands like Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and Lycia. Hell, we here at HeyStupid fucking love (with a capital L) sexy Goth girls in corsets and fishnets… that shit’s fucking sexy. Unless they’re fat. But anyway…

If we’ve blasted celebrities, or pop-culture icons, any public figure or any group of people, it’s because we’re trying to express our point of view in a way that’s humorous and easy for other people to wrap their minds around. If it hurts your feelings, then stop being such a thin skinned pansy. Toughen the fuck up, and go the fuck away. Life tends to be a bitch, and we’ve found that humor really can be the best medicine. In a few cases, it’s even been known to cure stupidity. So relax, have a laugh at the expense of others, and come hang out with the staff of HeyStupid. We’d love to hear from you sometime… unless you’re going to tell us we’re stupid. In which case, just go eat a Twinky by candle light and cry.

Disclaimer: After much research we here at HeyStupid have found no correlation (direct or indirect) between laughter and a cure for fatness. If you’re fat, go run a few laps around McDonalds and know that we are mocking you.

~ by Nick Fit on September 27, 2007.