Thread by @timminchin

To the bloke’s saying, “You can’t blame Anning for hitting that kid, it was automatic self-defense”: What if #eggboy was #egggirl? Cos applying your logic, presumably you also think it’d be fine to hit a teenage girl & have your mates choke hold her. Yeah?

What if it were #eggboy was 15? 13? 8 yrs old? If Anning’s reaction was a totally defensible unconscious response, then smacking a child would also be fine, cos your adrenaline was up. Right?

What if instead of #eggboy, it was #yellowstickynoteboy, and instead of egging him, he slapped a yellow sticky note on Anning’s back saying “Hello, I’m fascist Fraser, I don’t read much books”, and it gave poor Fraser a fright? Would you say the kid should get hit for that?

What if a 17 yr old disabled kid popped a balloon right near him? Or if an old lady called him a cunt? Or someone put ice down his pants? Or asked him to spell a three syllable word? To hit or not to hit? Where is your line?

What if it was Penny Wong or Julia Gillard or Ludlam or fuckin Obama or Rove or Hughesy who got egged? Would you expect them to lash out? Course not. Why shouldn’t they? Why wouldn’t they?

Honestly. This tough guy shit is so old, and we all know it’s just covering up the fact that you’re piss scared and insecure. Real men stop fights, they don’t start them. Real men don’t hit teenagers a foot smaller than them. Real men aren’t scared of brown people. Man up.