~~ mmmm-m-macho.

So I was watching this semi-bad anime, E's Otherwise, and was completely charmed and taken in by the stereotypical pretty antagonist boy. I mean, I know I'm easy, but. Shenlong is all blond and pissy and "kill the humans, they -hate- us 'cause we're special" and he pretty much hates the goody-two-shoes but-humans-deserve-to-live-too protagonist, of course, and. Reminding me of someone? Nooooo. Gotta say though, Draco looks great with a braid :D He does! And... of course, in the reviews I've seen, mostly it's like, "Shenlong is such the arrogant asshole" while the minority is all "mmm, hotness". Typical, right. I'm telling you though, this boy can fight. And also, mmm, hotness.

And okay, I'm really curious.... Why is it that people dislike arrogance, anyway? Is it because they're somehow threatened by it? I mean, if someone is full of hot air, and is really a pathetic loser who can't do anything (and is still arrogant), that's one thing. I can see how that's offensive, simply because the person is delusional and pushy about it (so basically, one can say they're mentally disturbed). Maybe there's a drive to give arrogant bastards some real competency just because otherwise, not even their own mother could love them, or something. (Yeah, I'm thinking fanon!Draco, of course.)

But given that their abilities are up to snuff, such arrogance is merely a sort of belligerence, I guess, cockiness mixed with a bad temper. So one figures this person has an anger-management problem but not a competency problem. People who're perpetually angry tend to not have a lot of friends and annoy a lot of people, I guess. So maybe it's just that they wouldn't like -you-, so you don't like them first?

My first impulse is to feel sorry for this person and go "awww, you need a friend", though not to their face of course. To me, it's blissfully easy 'cause I'm unlikely to interact with you whether you're belligerent/arrogant or not, being rather antisocial. So it's all kinda theoretical to me, I suppose, whereas more extroverted people might be more inclined to this sort of social judgement.

Maybe it really is that simple. People don't like other people who act like they're better than them, whether they're correct about that or not. Whereas I personally find it cute simply because I suppose I grew up like that, being told that er... I was 'better', ahahah. Um. *coughs* Basically, I was taught that competency is paramount and an attitude is just something one -has- if one is "just that good". Hmm.

( Ponder, ponder, ponder! )