Mikey has told us why he's insecure. His family is from academia, and he's constantly having to prove how open minded he is.

I think in these debates, I am more headstrong than insecure. I do have insecurities, but they don't really manifest themselves on message boards. It's more a problem irl. I come from a pretty white trash upbringing, and that's not easy to shed. What's that old saying? You can take the man out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the man? Sure, it's classist/racist or whatever, but there's some truth to it. It's hard to shed that mentality. I don't want to shed it. So, I think I have a tendency to show my insecurities when I get around people who were raised in upper middle class/upper class pretty quickly. I tend to become the smartest man in the room real quickly. I hate it. Even when I know I'm doing it, I can't stop.

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