From my experience, rednecks are the only group of people that will insult you if you haven’t really asked for it. I think this is because they’re bullies who have always had the upper hand when dealing with other groups of people. And they embrace being stupid which leads them to really believe that they’re right.<\/p>\n
That’s why I found it unfortunate that, in my fairly uninformed editorial of the transexual movement, a lot of people accused me of being an ignorant redneck, because rednecks are really the only group of people that I have any issues with at all.<\/p>\n
And, I am not a redneck. My blog caption says\u00a0“One Funny Hick<\/em>“<\/em>, but that’s a joke. I’m just a lanky comedian from Fairbanks – arguably the weirdest group of people alive.<\/p>\n That being said, referring to transsexuals as\u00a0weirdos<\/em> probably does sound very redneckish if you just stumbled upon it.<\/p>\n I’ve never really had death threats before – once when I made scallops on Thanksgiving, but other than that, I don’t think I’ve really ever bothered anyone.<\/p>\n Now that I have, it doesn’t feel great, and nor do the death threats.<\/p>\n The only thing I can take away from the situation is that, had I not pissed a lot of people off, I probably would never have given thought to a lot of the points they were making – in the case of people like Rye Silverman civilly and respectfully, in many other cases maliciously.<\/p>\n So, I guess being exposed to all of this hatred was deserved, as it mirrored the hatred that I was putting out there. It was truly a learning experience, as I apparently prefer this method of garnering knowledge as opposed to actually reading.<\/p>\n Picking on transgendered people is not really cool.<\/p>\n They probably get picked on all the time.<\/p>\n I have never been picked on, except by rednecks. And often times, I probably unfortunately just blend in. Which is unfortunate.<\/p>\n Rest assured I won’t be opening for Ted Nugent any time soon or hanging around 7-11 parking lots uttering racial slurs.<\/p>\n And in turn, I hope that nobody tries to kill me.<\/p>\n I’ve almost been killed twice by rednecks, once in Northern California by some random tweakers and once in Central Oregon by some really scary rapist type guys, actually at a place called Lenora’s Ghost, so stay away if you’re in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n So, I really would never try and hurt anyone, and nobody else has ever tried to hurt me. Not being the only white guy at a Banda party in Compton, not at a GZA concert, and not in a gay bar.<\/p>\n So, I really don’t like it, but, conversely, I guess that’s why you shouldn’t piss people off.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From my experience, rednecks are the only group of people that will insult you if you haven’t really asked for it. I think this is because they’re bullies who have always had the upper hand when dealing with other groups of people. And they embrace being stupid which leads them to really believe that they’re …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[485,482,483,480,484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}