I have come to the conclusion recently that all of us,
including my good self, are perpetually offended by everything. The world is
growing more and more politically correct and whilst in some ways I thoroughly
embrace some of these PC expectations, I feel that this constant need to not
offend people tends to zap the fun out of life. Trigger warnings are the latest
new-age phenomenon, and I am not trying to take away from any trauma anyone has
suffered in life, but it’s getting to a stage where we’re all walking on egg
shells, afraid that if we mention certain words or laugh at an inappropriate
joke that someone will spontaneously combust with upset and distress.
I recently started following the author Louise O’Neill on
Facebook who’s an Irish author who wrote two excellent books on misogynistic
culture. I normally tend to agree with the points she makes on her Facebook
page (although they can come across very strongly sometimes, alas each to their
own) however, she recently posted the following image with the caption:
“What the actual fuck, Forever21?”
I stared at the image for ages (I was procrastinating in the library, of course) and honestly could not for the life of me understand what was wrong with it. I scrolled through the comments to see other highly offended individual’s comments and even after discussing it with a friend; I still couldn’t see why anyone could be that offended by the quote on the t-shirt. I left the following comment:
“There are genuine things to be offended and appalled by but
I really don’t think this qualifies as one of them. I read it as be comfortable
with saying no to something you don't want to do.”
Is it just me or does these perpetually offended attitudes
take away from the cause of being offended by things that are genuinely
offensive? When something truly is abhorrent and you mention it, people are
much quicker to jump down your throat accusing you of being a whiny feminist
who hates men (that’s me J
) because people are spending their time giving out about things that aren’t serious
in the grand scheme of things.
At the end of the day, I just think that a t-shirt with a
shitey slogan like that (if you wear that t-shorts with slogans on them, I’m
not going to associate with you full stop.) is not going to provoke anyone to
have non consensual sex with someone. There are many other things happening
daily that will take care of that aspect of things perfectly.
ANYWAYS, seeing as we’re all so offended, I’ve made a list
of things that REALLY piss me off and are perfectly ok to be offended by:
1. Sharing fake
competitions on Facebook.
This truly makes me question the intelligence levels of
people I know as well as deepening my fear for the future of humanity.
My first point is who the fuck gets a kick out of creating
these fake Instagram and Facebook pages for Ryan air and Emirates?
Secondly, who is actually dumb enough (I know who you are)
to believe that:
a) Ryan air is giving away ‘round the world’ flights when
they don’t even sell flights to America?
And
b) That Ryan air would give anything away for free?
2. Motivational
Posters/Quotes
Most motivational posts that people ‘live their lives by’
are as about as deep as a puddle of piss. If you need to follow some overly
hyped yank who’s stuffed to the gills with steroids and Prozac to tell you that
all you need to do is ‘live, laugh and love’ to get through this life, then you
need to see a therapist.
Fun fact: Any guy who has a cringe quote like that on their
Tinder gets an instant swipe left.
3. Sending a Snapchat AND putting it on your story
This actually makes me shake with anger. I can’t even
discuss it any further because I really cannot comprehend why the fuck you
would think it’s necessary to send me a Snapchat of your ham sandwich and then
put it on your fucking story too so I have to see it TWICE.
4. The following
words:
Brekkie, nom, veggies.
If English is your first language can you learn to fucking
speak and write it coherently.
5. Trying to write
the word ‘fucking’ on my iPhone.
Autocorrect tries to get a great laugh out of me by
autocorrecting my most used word to the following:
FUCKNIG
Fuvcking
FUCKIMG
6. Couples who have
cringe nicknames for each other
What reminded me of my hatred for this phenomenon was when I
recently watched a Tanya Burr vlog by accident and she kept calling her husband
‘bubs’. Between that and her fake baby voice I nearly self combusted myself.
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