Shooting out of their asses

You know what really pisses me off during traffic situations? You know what's really annoying? You know what makes me want to scream like a banshee or throw something hard enough to cause damage?

Macho posturing.

Every freaking day you see the evidence of the Filipino man's mentality of machismo and "dog marking his territory" behaviour. When you're on the road, some asshole cuts in, and you get pissed and honk your horn. He honks his horn right back, maybe even louder and longer, either to 1.) annoy you 2.) prove to you that he doesn't give a flying f*ck that what he did was totally assholic, cause you know, he's this strong macho male.

Yesterday, cars were lined up bumper to bumper and this guy totally blocked off an intersection because he moved his car forward even though the light was already red. So everyone turning left couldn't turn because his car was blocking the way. Fortunately, a traffic officer was there, and he knocked on the guys window and told him to move his damn car. Cars were honking, and everyone turning left was impatient for the ass to move his car. So what does the he do? He moves his car a teensy bit, enough to let the cars pass by the intersection, but not enough to make traffic move smoothly. As if that wasn't enough, when the traffic officer told him to move his ass further, the man got out of the car and mouthed off the traffic officer.
WHAT THE HELL? Everyone can see you're violating traffic, you do it infront of a traffic officer, and you have the gall to get out of your car, stand in front of everyone and argue with the traffic officer with one hand on your hip. Did he think the officer would cower because she's a woman? What twisted chauvinist hell do you come from?

Oh, lets not even go to public transportation drivers! Their macho mentality is probably one of the worse in the entire worldwide male population. There is no such thing as traffic rules for them as long as they don't get caught by someone in uniform. If you even waste time to argue with them if they cut you off, make a full stop in the middle of the road, turn when they shouldn't, or drive in a private-vehicle-only section of the road, you can expect verbal abuse or even physical intimidation. Yes, they're so strong, they can physically intimidate women half their size to prove that. It's true, it's happened to me. Their passengers can see them, if he admits he was wrong, it would make him look weak! Oh, and that would be a sin in the Filipino Macho Guy Bible, we can't have that! Every Filipino has to be macho!

One of my benchmarks of a decent guy here in the Philippines is his ability to handle a traffic situation. If he lets his macho meter dictate his behavior and cuss off or challenge another driver regularly (and when I mean regularly, it's because horrendous traffic is way of life here), then he's not boyfriend material. Who wants all that headache, and who wants a man who's so conscious about looking macho in trivial things? Men here don't even need to go through mandatory army service, and yet they act like fighting is a way of life. Filipino macho men want to show how strong and fierce they are, then they should join the
IDF! I'd love to see real fighters kick their smug macho asses.