{"id":537,"date":"2009-06-10T14:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=537"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:51","slug":"judging-you-judging-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/judging-you-judging-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Judging You Judging Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whiteafrican\/3097706311\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-538\" title=\"judgemental\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/judgemental-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"judgemental\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/judgemental-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/judgemental.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s very fair for people to judge me for being judgmental.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSo I sneer openly at good looking people at my gym and secretly think they&#8217;re dumb and shallow.\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 What am I supposed to do, be accepting of everyone?\u00a0 Give everyone the benefit of the doubt? <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nTake today for instance: I was secretly watching the Latin-Cardio-Dance-Grooves-Bullshit-Class-Where-You-Wiggle-Your-Hips-Around-A-Lot-but-Don&#8217;t-Sweat from the stationary bike.\u00a0 Sure, it was sort of pervy for me to be watching, but I was only doing it to be critical.\u00a0 And some jealousy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nAnyway, I see this sexy young girl in tight pants squirming all around the dance floor.\u00a0 I turn to my friend and say something like &#8220;that ho is totally a stripper in the evenings.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nMy friend tries to convince me that the girl was really young- like in high school- and that I was being a crabby asshole. &#8220;No way&#8221; I said &#8220;I can see a Professional when I see one.&#8221;\u00a0 Then I sat back and congratulated myself for being so perceptive.\u00a0 Until that very girl came out of the studio with another woman and said &#8220;Hurry up mom, I&#8217;ll be late for school.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nOoopsy. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nStill, a lot of people rely on me to be snarky and catty.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t let them down just because I miss the mark occasionally.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nDo you want the baby thrown away with the bathwater?\u00a0 That&#8217;s a perfectly good baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s very fair for people to judge me for being judgmental.\u00a0 &nbsp; So I sneer openly at good looking people at my gym and secretly think they&#8217;re dumb and shallow.\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 What am I supposed to do, be accepting of everyone?\u00a0 Give everyone the benefit of the doubt? &nbsp; Take today &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/judging-you-judging-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Judging You Judging Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}