I find those phrases (for lack of a better word) to be the oddest in the English language.
It seems thin skinned people use those. I cringe every time I hear it.
You hear those phrases a lot, do you?
I don't understand the trend that has been gathering steam for the past 20 years where people are offended by just about everything.
Society has become so emotionally soft.
i'm of two minds on that, or maybe three. there is some virtue in calling out bigotry. there is also something irritating in people jumping on anything that in their highly-sensitized view strikes them as a -hint- of bigotry. they enjoy flexing their righteosity while beating the less civilized among us, or older among us, into our designated places.
i have a daughter with a hair-trigger injustice-o-meter. i love her to death, and love her instinct for justice, but getting jumped on for all my long-ingrained somewhat un-pc wise cracks gets a little tedious.
Using shame to change a behavior almost never works, but that doesn't change that people like to shame others. I'd argue that shaming is more about the person who is giving people shame, a way to make that person feel empowered over something he cannot change. In fact, it can easily be argued that there is a sense of power when you join large groups of people who all shame others they don't like.
share where people are offended by just about everything.
And here we are ,yet again , people complaining about offended people and no actually offended people.
who'se the real thin skinned snowflakes?
The imaginary people *constantly* complained about or those doing the complaining, whilst claiming they are old school thick skineed no nonsense types?
Sometimes though, it is only proper to call someone out on their actions.
I don't really like to be called "thin skinned" either, because I have the right to feel what I feel.
Sure you do - you have the right to feel and speak out if that's what you want, but who determines what is offensive and what isn't? It seems everything is offensive to some people now days.
Just don't make your rules necessarily apply to me.
The main problem with the social conflict is that the people who do feel the slightest offense over a comment feel entitled to shut down a discussion by any means. Yes, everyone has a right to dislike an idea, but all we can do is counter a bad idea with a better one. Censorship only makes people defend their views more strongly, and it can make bad ideas fester in secret.
shareThere are many. "Cringe" is one that's over-used.
The worst now is when the ditzy say, "Like. Um. Really. REALLY?", and in general, saying "like" every other word. I have to turn away - don't what that pollution near me.
I've always hated slang, or words everyone suddenly starts using, especially when there's a better word to describe the situation. Slang also makes no sense after 10 minutes, and I think people should learn English from a paperback dictionary.
How many of us are even thick skinned, aren't we all vulnerable creatures for the most part? (Hope its not a straw man.)
shareThe problem here is that those are responses to your actions, if you're speaking in a patronizing tone or being intentionally insulting then people will respond to you accordingly. What do you want to hear? "Great job proving I'm an idiot, I really appreciate you telling me off."
Hehehe, sorry, you just reminded me of a game they used to play on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" It was a show where 4 guys (or 3 guys and a chick) would improvise scenes on stage and did funny stuff. They played all sorts of games that students in acting school do to test their abilities.
"Two Line Vocabulary" consisted of this: you had 3 improvers on stage, one could say whatever he wanted, but the other two could only say two lines at any time while making up stuff for a scene. In one of these games, I remember a guy whose 2 lines were "I resent that" and "Oh my God, that's enormous!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuLbMrxQtws
Have fun, everyone :D
Why is "M'am" considered offensive?
shareI like the phrase “be that as it may”...Seinfeld says it in the bakery when told he should have gotten there earlier.
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