We had a cat that would meow endlessly, not to be fed nor to be allowed outside but to get some attention. She had a particularly raspy, invasive voice, and she used it to get some petting or to sleep on the bed with me or sit on my lap..on top of my book...or next to my face.
I had a neighbor once who must have been lonely because she watched my coming and going and came out of her house to talk to me at every opportunity. She asked personal questions and commented on my yard, my clothes, my car, my children, my marriage. She was nosey and persistent, annoying as the dickens. I just wished she would shut up.
There are people like that. They will sit on ledges of tall buildings, waiting to be coaxed away, or get so drunk they have to be taken home in an ambulance. They do ridiculous things, wanting to be noticed. I suspect that many of our public figures, whether in the media, in politics, in sports, talk the way they do, say the things they say, purely for affect. Trash talk is just another way to be noticed.
Which probably wouldn't make a lot of difference except they hurt other people. Their mothers probably would have washed their mouths out for the way they use epithets and dirty names and language even adults cringe to hear. Just because they don't like the way other people think, they trash them. Publicly and totally. They don't know the persons, they only know they want to ridicule or damage them.
It's wicked. And even a cat wanting attention could find a better way to get it.
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