Exciting and Inciting.
So yesterday something pretty nasty happened in standup class. And I'm not talking about my act. Well, that was nasty too, but the main thing I'm talking about really was nothing to do with my act.
It was all to do with the radio show, specifically the episode from a couple of weeks ago when Ben Wadling co-hosted. During the show I started telling someone else's joke from stand-up class, ironically of course. Labouring under the thought that it was Mister X's joke, I dismissed it as rubbish. Ben told me it was Mr. Y's, and I said that in that case it was good.
I then proceeded to get Mister X's name wrong multiple times(in a manner that made it sound like I was insulting him, when really I was just confused) and then said "I fucking hate him".
Turns out that a couple of days ago, Mister X heard the podcast of this episode and was none too pleased. In fact, he was fuming. He came into class yesterday and started making digs whilst on stage before our lecturer arrived, but no one really heard him. He said something about how he liked to use public forums to attack people when they can't respond, and I yelled "It's the bravest way!" - trying to take the piss out of what I had done. It was my mia culpa. But I don't think he understood. No surprise.
During his set, X made a few references to the show, but no out-and-out personal attacks on me like he'd been promising("When I get up there I'm going to utterly ballistic"). He did, however, end his set with an attack on one of our lecturers, who is entirely un-deserving of X's scorn - not that it doesn't entirely go to pattern.
After the session was over X talked to me. I say 'talked', he yelled. Yelled the standard stuff - how he was gonna "kill me" if I ever did anything like that again, how I was out of order, how I didn't have the right to talk about people on the radio. The entire time I stood there listening with a smile on my face(smiling shows them that they're not in control) and when he'd finished I told him that I didn't care what he thought - he was a cunt and he could fuck off.
A quick digression to explain why I particularly don't like this person. From day one(when he compared me to Chris Crocker) this guy has bullied me every chance he's gotten. I don't like to use the term 'bullying', but that's what he did. Took my saddle off of my unicycle and pretended that he'd found it and that that was all that was left. The next week he took the saddle off again to use for as a prop in class - without asking. He's sexually harassed me on two occasions, despite being told not to. He's exhibited blatant homo/trans-phobia towards me, and tried to get a nickname of 'Warhol' going. Because Andy Warhol was gay, and at the time X thought I was too.
So when I say he's a cunt, I'm not saying it in a flippant way. He. Is. A. Cunt. To me, to others. And I called him out on it. And he didn't like that.
Back in class, he continued to yell at me, and had to be led away under request of our lecturer. As he walked out of the room he yelled "Fuck off and grow a vagina". Some more transphobia there, your honour. Just for the record.
(Oh, and if only it were that fucking easy!)
I ended up getting a ticking off from our lecturer, who admitted that bullying had taken place, but told me I should've gone through the official channels. You know, the ones that have failed me my entire life.
My lecturer did say that I should apologise, but rescinded that after he saw how angry X really was. I've been told to leave him alone.
I don't know where this post falls into that edict. I feel I've been fairly honest, and admitted fault(I should not have used the radio in that way, I accept that). I've also outlined my reasons for my hatred of this guy, so maybe those in the class who fall more on his side of the argument will see my perspective.
Above all, I want this post here because I am so very, very worried* that he will kill me, and no one will know why. If they find my raped and mutilated corpse tomorrow - you know who did it. Well, sort of.
*Not worried at all. Been beaten up by bigger and scarier people than X, and survived. Oh, and I'm not a coward, so that would probably give me some advantage in a fight. Oh, and I told him all this. That made him a bit angrier.
Oh, and to make something clear - when I say he's a cunt, that's opinion. Not fact, obviously. Just have to say that for libel reasons.