Isn’t It Fun Being Disrespected?

Shirley Ann Parker
Thoughts & Impressions
8 min readJun 4, 2022

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Our World Is Full of People Who Ridicule Those Who Do Most Of The Real Work

Janitor mopping the sidewalk in front of a building in the business district. Other cleaning tools are behind him, inside.
Photo by Gil Ribeiro on Unsplash

It gets old, doesn’t it? And right now we’re seeing the results of disrespect. It boils over into anger, resulting in fear, and then more anger.

Those who are sick and tired of being scorned, insulted and never thanked for anything have openly rebelled:

Empty your own trash, fetch your own coffee, clean your own filthy toilets. You’re not a toddler or even a disabled elder; you’re the one who crapped all over the seat and peed on the floor, so clean it up!

If you were a customer or an employee who did that on my business premises, please don’t ever come back here. If your mother never taught you to clean up after yourself, start doing it now! I don’t need a husband who is disgusting and disrespectful either.

An Early Disrespect but Not the Only One

At first, the people complaining about being disrespected were teenage Hispanic gang members: “He disrespected me, so I stabbed him.” Worse was if the victim had disrespected someone’s mother, for crying out loud. As if being a gang member ever did anything but break a mother’s heart, over and over again!

There is no honor in fighting to control a sidewalk or a block of grimy apartments. There is only dishonor to…

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Shirley Ann Parker
Thoughts & Impressions

UK emigrant to USA. Interests: Wildlife, people, mental health, religion. Help me tear down society’s abuses. https://shirleyannparker.medium.com/membership