WHAT THE HELL is wrong with people today?
You should have already known the answer, since you are part of that broad question.
People have always reacted to those things that don't fit 'their way'.
In regards to the CVS story...
It's been my observations that those that act one way while in a group, don't act the same way when alone.
I've also noticed:
Some 'men' are homophobes who act/react because they view gays as being effeminate and any interest towards them from gays must mean they are also being seen as being effeminate. If a gay hits on them in front of their 'friends' you can be pretty sure their 'friends' will be picking on them for a long time. So generally, they gonna make sure that doesn't happen. Hence the '1st strike'.
Some 'men' react to implications they are gay generally because either it's an affront to their masculinity or they sit in a closet all day questioning it themselves.
Doesn't matter to me who hits on me.... women or men... just backs up what I already know...I'm it.
Everything can be boiled down to 'fight or flight'.
Somebody says something, somebody does something, you see something, you hear something, whatever... do you walk or take a stand?
That would be rhetorical, since...
I can't really change the way I am.
For me, I tend to let my feelings turn to anger. I generally end up in rage against the ones that pissed me off.
I realize I shouldn't let them play me like that, but in the same way, why should I be expected to change?
I already know the answer.
So basically you're the guy I see on the highway chasing cars down, flipping off the drivers and trying to run the off them road cause they did something that pissed you off, huh?
Doesn't really matter what the subject is... homophobia or rage... those that suffer from either can always justify it.
Fight or flight.
A real man makes the right decision for the right reasons.
