To the two silly women who whispered their way through the majority of the movie at Kendall Sq. on Sunday night:

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Yes, I actually told you to “be fucking quiet!” If only your delicate sense of decorum, so easily affronted by my profanity, could have kicked in, as it were, an hour earlier at the start of the movie. Instead, many people in the theater had to constantly strain to hear a dialogue-driven movie whilst you presumably discussed your Sunday shopping successes. Then, at the end of the movie, you added insult to injury by complaining that I swore instead of politely asking you to be quiet! You forfeit the right to request how people talk to you in public places when you cavalierly ruin their evening’s entertainment. Apparently my actions mark me as an animal with anger management issues. Your clichéd clinical “insight” is laughable but note anyway that my minimal house training still enables me to sit silently through a 90-minute movie. Furthermore, an angry reaction isn’t automatically invalidated simply by dint of being directed at you. If you possessed the power to follow accepted norms of behavior in public places you would have no need to question mine. Let me finish by warning you that I regularly use the library for work. My guess is that your children are the ones who believe that whispering in the reading room doesn’t disturb the other patrons: Kindly pass on your newly learned lesson, I can’t swear that I’ll be polite to them.

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