People will take any opportunity to push you down the ladder. They worm their way through any small hole they can find and they attempt to change your perception of yourself to that of a lesser human being. It is even more petty when they do it in front of other people. It's a status game, and I luckily started to notice it while very young.

Unfortunately, there is not a lot of hope for people who don't see the problem with this practice and who have followed it for a long time, unquestioningly and subconsciously. And confronting them about it is only good for increasing the temperature of their head. That is, their temperament is volatile and effects the density of their head... makes it susceptible to temperature increases. Thus, hot headed.

This is one of those things that really, really, really annoys me. And it needs to become socially acceptable to call people out on it.

But I have a question. I skipped college, so I don't know. Do people still do this in higher education?