#and this just happened

I was just in the store picking up some much needed salt and post workout when an employee speaking with a mother and three little girls said something about them needing a big brother to protect them from all the boys.

I waited until the mother and girls were out of earshot then told the woman that boys are not dangerous and don’t need to be protected against, but her telling those girls they need a man (brother) to protect them from other men (or boys) instilled fear in them which probably didn’t exist before and made them all, mother included, go quiet as they pondered what a seemingly wise elderly woman told them about needing men to fight men. No management was needed to correct the problem, I could see in her eyes that she knew what she’d done. She apologized to me, I wish she would’ve done so to the children and their mother.

Problem solved. Nobody needed firing, nobody needed to feel bad, nobody needed to get upset. Interpersonal conflicts can often be solved quietly and have a much better chance of helping two people to grow if one of them isn’t trying to destroy the life of someone they took offense from.

It may make you feel momentarily good about yourself while you’re doing it, but destroying someone’s life because you disagree with them makes you a bad person. Doxxing, SWATing, workplace harassment, suicide baiting, death threats, threats of any harm, all things bad people do.

Be the best you.