this shit is BUSTED.

[tree_of_jessie]

yesterday afternoon zack and i tackled the harrowing-as-usual task of purchasing my groceries. feeding myself has been a pretty stressful activity for various reasons that i don't really wanna get into right now for pretty much my entire life. i come home from superstore haggard every time.

we were walking toward the steps to the courtyard of my apartment, zack in front with the groceries, me trailing behind, and suddenly i was struck by this weird, enveloping sense of vulnerability that i sometimes get without warning. i flitted up closer to zack and hugged his back for comfort, and that was the moment when it happened:

a couple of assholes in a car pulled up next to us, stopped, took a picture of us, laughed, and drove off.

HA HA, LOOK AT THOSE FAT PEOPLE. AREN'T THEY FAT?!

i am sure this moment, something that i felt was pretty intimate and private, is now on the internet somewhere, where people are saying terrible and dehumanizing things about us. awesome. just fucking rules. whatever, we're not actually real people - it's totally cool to just go on and take our picture without our permission, we're totally hilarious just by virtue of existing, right? I'M TOTALLY BUYING MY GROCERIES AND TAKING THEM HOME FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT, YOU GUYS. HOLY FUCK, THOSE FAT PEOPLE EAT!!

i am really angry and sad and feeling so emotionally bruised by this. it's awful and mean and there really is nothing i can do about it, is there? terrible.

Comments

[grammardog]

I am so, so sorry that happened to you. People can be such incredible assholes. It's an incredible fear of mine - I've been mooed at often enough of moving car windows that I know, in this age where every asshole has a camera phone in his hand at all times, one of these days it's bound to happen, if it hasn't already. I wish I could make it feel better... I'm just so sorry you were treated that way.

[tree-of-jessie.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for saying this. it means a lot to me.

i wish i could confiscate the mooing privileges from those assholes who mooed at you. this shit has GOT to stop.

[abbeykins.livejournal.com]

This makes me incredibly angry. NOTHING gives them the right to violate your privacy like that. They deserve a boot to the head.

The only reason people should be taking a photo of you and Zack to post on the internet is to talk about how fucking ridiculously cute you two are together. And even then they should ask permission first.

I hate that everyone has camera phones now... when I was at tae kwon do a week ago, there were some teenager assholes gawking through the big windows at the front, and I think they were taking pictures. We were practicing our kicks, and I swear, I wanted to use them as targets.

[tree-of-jessie.livejournal.com]

fucking asshole kids. i'm sorry, abz. thank you for being supportive, though. all i can really do is say ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck!! you know?