I’m very slightly dreading posting this one, because it contains an opinion on political correctness. Therefore, because I never ever learn, I’m sharing the contentiousness with the RSS buffer.
See, I’m torn. On the one hand, I absolutely hate the mindset, so prevalent on the internet, that if you are offended by anything you are a whiny pussy bitch with sand in your vagina, particularly if the thing you are offended by is the casual misogyny inherent in the phrase “whiny pussy bitch with sand in your vagina.” It leads to an atmosphere where genuine hatred and intolerance are allowed to quietly coexist among people who are being ironic, people who are being funny, people who use the word “ghey” (may they burn in some special hell), and God forbid you stand up for yourself, or for someone else, or for civil rights.
On the other hand, sometimes I read things like this, and think “Wow, what manner of drugs got mixed into the sand in your vagina?” Are any interactions that an Asian person has with the color yellow inherently racist? Is it homophobic to have a gay character gathering firewood, because fagot once meant a bundle of sticks? When looking at something that might be construed as offensive, depending on interpretation, are we obligated to be offended every time or never offended at all?
What does framing things in terms of being offended and stopping there do for anybody anyway? It’s only the reaction you get on the surface when you feel things are wrong and unfair on a fundamental level. Instead of “I’m offended,” how about “Everyone is a human being deserving of, at the very least, basic human rights, and I’m going to try every way I can think of to communicate this to you and everyone else, on the off chance that I can convince just one more person of this, because my carbon footprint is huge, I don’t pay enough attention to where my clothes are made, and this is the only way I know of to maybe make the world a slightly better place.”
…well, that was a thing that just happened. Why am I standing on this soapbox? Where are my clothes?
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