Frustrating

A lot of Facebook surveys ask me what my pet peeve is. I have several, and some that transcend pet status into...what's above a pet peeve? A superpet? A pet irritation? Whatever.

--Stupidity. This is always my answer when people ask what my pet peeve is, and it needs clarification.
1. Outright ignorance. Rarely does this tick me off, because usually it's funny.
2. Stupidity that results from laziness. This is much more common, and one of the main reasons Digital Media is not my favorite class. (One of the other main reasons is Flash.)
3. People that think their coolness is directly proportional to their bad senses of humor (SEXUAL INNUENDOS ARE NOT ALWAYS FUNNY) or their downright obnoxiousness.
4. Ignorance that leads to stereotyping. This is mostly political. No, "liberal" is not synonymous with "godless," "socialist," "baby-killing," or "pansy." (Also, "socialist" is not synonymous with "evil"). Also, "Christian" is not synonymous with "idiotic" (though Christians have given people very many reasons to believe that this is not the case).

--Segregation by intelligence. Does anyone else find it weird that people refer to groups as "smart people" and "not smart people"? I don't really think I'm more intelligent than most people, and it's not hard to make the jump from "not smart" to "smart."

--Arguments that don't rely on anything like logic. If you ever say "yeah, but socialism is evil!" to me, I believe I've won the argument.

--Bad music that gets popular. I'm looking at you, CCM and mainstream pop.

--Musical stereotyping. Before you cry "hypocrite," let me say this: not ALL mainstream pop is bad, but many artists in that genre are. People think all rap is bad...those people don't know the Flobots or Immortal Technique. People think Christian metal shouldn't exist...they don't know Living Sacrifice or Becoming the Archetype. People think secular music is pure evil...they don't know Passenger or Sonata Arctica, to name two of millions.

--Watching a situation spiral out of control, and being forced to accept that I can do nothing to intervene.

--When things make total rational sense, but something irrational makes it painful, and the rational part doesn't console me.

--My own frustration. The fact that I'm upset sometimes frustrates me as much as or more than the thing that upset me originally. This is a vicious cycle.

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