I don't hate you because you're beautiful, I hate you because you use your beauty to successfully improve you place in life and in the social order. I hate you because aside from being artistically or sexually pleasing to observe, you do not have one redeeming social quality.
After 23 years of recovering from drugs and alcohol, suffering homelessness, working in thankless, difficult jobs to make money for others, and surviving two emotionally and financially abusive marriages, I am a loving, caring, spiritual human being.
I am honest to the point of transparency. I am responsible both personally and to my family and community. I am entirely and completely faithful mentally, emotionally and physically to my significant other.
I do not drink, use tobacco, or use drugs or mind altering chemicals. I am as completely non-violent and unabusive as my life permits me to be. I even drive at or under the speed limit. I volunteer my time, and I donate money to legitimate cherities. I am raising two children and loving them as if they were my own, though I came into their lives when they were 9 and 12 yrs old.
Still, I'm overweight, and bald. My face isn't worthy of a place on GQ, and so, in the grand game of social value, you will succeed, and I will fail.
I hate you because I am better and brighter and I work harder every goddamn day of my life, but you will always be treated better than I.
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