the master offensiveness list

this is what offends me:

-consumerism

-people who reflexively condemn others

-people who never examine all aspects of something, from all angles, and never really question their assumptions and presuppositions

-people who accept what they are told

-people who reflexively kowtow to authority and expect others to also

-people who are just mean for the sake of being mean, or mean because they think they have significant "back up" (mob mentalities/feeding frenzies).

i'm sure i could think of others.

me it's time to go shopping at the mall for another large screen tv for the bathroom but let me just say real quick I assume you and your views are STUPID and beneath contempt. :)

what a display!

you get the big shit sandwich door prize.

i am offended by people who use the word gay as an insult, and then pretend that this is not what they are doing

i am offended by people who say mann coulter.

i am offended by bigotry

i am offended by petty people

I agree with all of yours, except for the 'Mann Coulter' one......that is kind of funny, she
is a 'turdblossom'!! :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

is not offensive to her but to trans folks.

like what if i said "black coulter" because i suspected she may have some black genes.

I got ya, I now understand, it didnt click there........

But she still is a 'turdblossom' :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

--The high-pressure atmosphere created by marketers on Madison Avenue for women who are pregnant, new mothers, relatively new mothers and women who became parents before the mass marketing of "new and better" baby products/parenting strategies kicked into gear and are now being made to feel like they are raising "inferior" children because they had their babies before the shitstorm began. It's vile. I feel so especially bad for the new moms I know, because most of them are going out of their minds from information-overload alone.

--The increasingly superficial nature of what will provoke a member of law-enforcement in your average city in America to full-on arrest someone these days (ie; next to nothing). What's the term I'm looking for here? Racial profiling? Unchecked malignant growth of the cancer that is the police state? Something like that.

--Cultural illiteracy. People think it's practically cute to remain ignorant about other nations, societies, cultures and ethnicities these days. And some have gotten offended when I've expressed my opinion that a person who wants to call him or herself civilized needs to at least make an effort to get familiar about the world beyond his neighborhood, if it is at all possible. Other people exist. Some of them are different than you. Some of them even live far away. This can make them just as interesting, intelligent, and valuable as you are. Isn't that neat?? Maybe you should LEARN something about some of them who aren't you.

--People who expect me, or other women generally, to do things for free that men wouldn't do for free in a thousand years. It's only one element of the misogyny which is still entirely pervasive in this country and most of the rest of the world, but this part of the pay inequity problem, or refusal to pay women for lots of work men are paid a living-to-decent wage to do, which is actually worse than the pay inequity crisis, is the newest misogynist element I've noticed. I always known I was underpaid, especially compared to my male co-workers at my various jobs, but I hadn't noticed until last year how many, many things I've been expected to do without payment or thanks. It's a shitload. And since I started realizing what they are, I've started telling the selfish, ugly fuckwads who don't recognize women's labor as valuable, to fuck right off when they express their expectation that I do shitwork, usually shitwork they should be doing, for free. Assholes.

Is it volunteer work?


One of my pet peeves is that many people think that women who don't have a husband/live in boyfriend have absolutely NOTHING to do! Who in the world do they think does everything?

Those all offend me as well.

As a definition: people who believe they can say or do no wrong. Everything they say is an automatic fact, because it is what they say. Any potential disagreement with them means that you are wrong, because they cannot be. No room for opinion, or discussion, or simple disagreement.

How dare you! Why, I've never spent more than fifteen dollars on a haircut in my life, excluding tip.

How dare you automatically assume I am talking about YOU?! Everyone should always talk about ME!

I know you are joking, it is an illustration of a good point... I really hate it when people read stuff into my posts that isn't there. Gawd, it's like an epidemic here...I've even had people pm me about stuff I said and have had to explain, no, that was about something that happened years ago, etc. There is life before (and after, and during) the lounge, lol.

I like debate...when people start calling me names and getting upset if they disagree, that sucks. To me debate is not personal, it's an intellectual exercise. I don't take what other people say personally (*most* of the time, gotta throw in that jinx deflector, lol) when we are debating so I get surprised when other people do...I am trying to be more careful about my phrasing though. It just occurred to me you probably aren't talking about here on DU though, which I am.

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:hi:

:yoiks:

when I damn well know what I'm talking about. A few members of my family are like this when I tell them they're wrong about something. Most of the time now, I just say 'okay' and leave it at that.

The c word and the n word. :hide: