I think I might be a dick. That’s a very difficult for me to admit, but in the interest of honesty and forthrightness, I think it’s time to re-evaluate my interactions with people. Regular readers to this Substack have already read about my recent encounter with Andrew “Dice” Clay
Please for the love of god continue to be a dick, especially with your folks. They’re never going to listen to people who are different from them. You’re the only type that will have any persuasion with them.
You are a “dick” sometimes, but I wouldn’t agree with every situation you list. But, your ability to keep your cool and stick with your argument IS maddening for the person on the other side 🤣
i think that dickishness exists on a spectrum, like so many things do.
i consider myself a recovering internet argumentaholic, and sometimes i find myself backsliding, but i do my best, and this is very resonant:
"What the hell do I have to be so righteous about? My opinions are often horrid and my grasp of facts regarding any given subject is tenuous at best. Yet my self-assuredness is, apparently, boundless."
thanks for being self-reflective about your self-assuredness! it is meaningful and appreciated!
Being a dick to dicks makes you better than a dick because your intentions are pure. You are trying to make the world a better place for us all, whereas they are just trying to make it better for themselves and their fellow dicks. So thank you, and please keep up the good work.
I am a dick like you, not withstanding the below comments. I am just like you, and am confrontational and a trial lawyer so I do not shy away from these things. Also a former cop, who feels as bulletproof as I thought I was when I was a 21 year old cop in Houston.
At least my parents had the foresight not to name me Richard. I have several friends with that name whose parents were spot on in naming their child.
I'm such a dick that I will good naturedly inquire if you've upped your Puma trainers game yet? That was a joke, but a dick joke.
Genuine dicks don't contemplate whether or not they are dicks. Part of being a dick is an utter lack of self-doubt. Dicks also depend on a lack of confrontation about their dickishness, which enables further expression of dickhood. It's kind of a corollary to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Dickishness in defense of the little guy is no vice.
Please for the love of god continue to be a dick, especially with your folks. They’re never going to listen to people who are different from them. You’re the only type that will have any persuasion with them.
1 in 5 is not hard to believe at all if you ever talk to women.
You are a “dick” sometimes, but I wouldn’t agree with every situation you list. But, your ability to keep your cool and stick with your argument IS maddening for the person on the other side 🤣
dear michael,
thank you for sharing this!
i think that dickishness exists on a spectrum, like so many things do.
i consider myself a recovering internet argumentaholic, and sometimes i find myself backsliding, but i do my best, and this is very resonant:
"What the hell do I have to be so righteous about? My opinions are often horrid and my grasp of facts regarding any given subject is tenuous at best. Yet my self-assuredness is, apparently, boundless."
thanks for being self-reflective about your self-assuredness! it is meaningful and appreciated!
love
myq
Sometimes it takes balls to be a dick.
But I feel like dicks never wonder if they’re dicks. Also would love to know what your wife thinks of all this.
You are not a dick.
Being a dick to dicks makes you better than a dick because your intentions are pure. You are trying to make the world a better place for us all, whereas they are just trying to make it better for themselves and their fellow dicks. So thank you, and please keep up the good work.
Hear something, say something.
I am a dick like you, not withstanding the below comments. I am just like you, and am confrontational and a trial lawyer so I do not shy away from these things. Also a former cop, who feels as bulletproof as I thought I was when I was a 21 year old cop in Houston.
At least my parents had the foresight not to name me Richard. I have several friends with that name whose parents were spot on in naming their child.
I'm such a dick that I will good naturedly inquire if you've upped your Puma trainers game yet? That was a joke, but a dick joke.
Genuine dicks don't contemplate whether or not they are dicks. Part of being a dick is an utter lack of self-doubt. Dicks also depend on a lack of confrontation about their dickishness, which enables further expression of dickhood. It's kind of a corollary to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
No. You are not a dick. Silence is the voice of complicity. Live and let live.
Some people take silence to mean agreement. Better to risk being seen as a dick than a supporter.
If this is being a dick, then I am a huge cock but to be fair, I think we need more dick and cockS like us
If youre only a dick to other dicks it cancels out 💪