22 Feb 2010, 2:45 pm
Andrijana wrote:
Odin wrote:
I'll often say something completely innocent and somebody will take it completely the wrong way, usually based on that person's own prejudices.
An example is that when I said that "Too many people my age don't know basic standards of polite behavior, like holding doors open for women and the elderly" to which someone accused me of being sexist, which is moronic because anyone who knows me knows how much I hate sexism and misogynistic power structures.
Or some PC nut will get POed because I insist on calling myself an "Autistic Person" instead of a "Person with Autism:"
<<An example is that when I said that "Too many people my age don't know basic standards of polite behavior, like holding doors open for women and the elderly" to which someone accused me of being sexist, which is moronic because anyone who knows me knows how much I hate sexism and misogynistic power structures.
Or some PC nut will get POed because I insist on calling myself an "Autistic Person" instead of a "Person with Autism:"
And why in the world do you care what someone thinks about you (are you sexist or not) if he doesn't even know you? And, on a top of it you seriously think that person is moron? Do you want that every moron adore you as perfect one ?!? Or you dread of being rejected by morons? Why are you degrading yourself to the level of one moron's acceptance?
) I...didn't even see him use the word moron. You don't know if the person he was talking about was someone he knew or not.
To League_Girl, what I realized later is if you tell someone who is mean that you wish they were nicer, you are in fact calling them mean. People don't like being called mean. Even if it's true, it's an insult. Although she was mean. She used to make me cry...I wished she could be nicer so we could be friends and people would stop pressuring me to "fit in."
22 Feb 2010, 7:03 pm
22 Feb 2010, 7:42 pm
