@izzythepush,
Hawkeye's real beef is that no one sees him as a sympathetic victim.
In numerous threads, where he he claims to be allegedly speaking for all men, he's told us how he's downtrodden and abused and made to feel insignificant and marginalized. For someone who allegedly rejects the "victim culture", he presents himself as the poster child for injustice and victimization, constantly whining about feeling powerless, abused, misunderstood, unfairly treated and attacked and on, and on. He's even accused the hamsters of voting down his posts.
So the entire idea that a genuine victim, like Gabrielle Giffords, could receive tremendous support and compassion seems to enrage him. He seethes with jealousy that she's not being punished in some way for her vulnerabilities, that people are being too understanding, too tolerant, too supportive of her, because he doesn't feel she's entitled to it. He'd like to see her abused, discarded as damaged goods, treated more the way that he feels people treat him, and he really can't fathom why that didn't happen. He can't connect empathetically with others because he's too damn angry to have room left for that sort of thing, and that anger comes from envy, and what he envys most of all is power. He'll never be a member of Congress, he'll never really effect change or inspire people, he'll never get beyond whining anonymously on an internet forum, where most of what he says is rejected with derision or ignored.
So, attacking Giffords is his way of getting even, of trying to whittle her down to his size so he can have his pathetic little moment of vindication. He turns her into the abuser, she's taken unfair advantage and behaved dishonorably, she's been harming her constituents by not doing her job, she's been harming
him in some way. And that brings it right back to Hawkeye as the victim. He's always the victim, it's always about
him and
his righteous indignation, and he won't let some accomplished woman, who tragically took a career-ending bullet to her brain, steal
his victim thunder, not even in an internet thread. He's got to put her in her place so he feels he's "winning" something, so he's got to carry on that Giffords didn't resign fast enough for
him..
He's never learned the difference between winning and whining or between a winner and a whiner. Giffords was a winner before that tragic shooting, and she's still a winner. And the chronic whiner is still whining...
