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Are you easily offended? How do you react to it?

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I'm only ever offended when someone tries to take a pot shot at my personal life and then I lose my shit by saying something like, "Don't you ever fucking talk to me like that again, you part time dad, because I will blow your shit up and let everyone know what a fucking low life you are."

I'm a terrible person.
 
ChubbyHuggs said:
I'm only ever offended when someone tries to take a pot shot at my personal life and then I lose my shit by saying something like, "Don't you ever fucking talk to me like that again, you part time dad, because I will blow your shit up and let everyone know what a fucking low life you are."

I'm a terrible person.
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Lol you call everybody a part time dad?
 
mac said:
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This is the first time in my life i have seen this picture un-zoomed.

Those clothes don't really fit with the image that one macro tries to set up, i see why it is super zoomed.
 
Not really. Only in the internet, but more often than not it's because i think someone else i might care about will get offended, so i get offended first.

Like solidary offendedness.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
Your last sentence explains your own reaction in your second sentence. Of course something that doesn't affect you isn't going to affect you, but I'm sure there are a lot of things that do that you're not thinking about right now. Everyone's got things that bug them.
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haha, ok, true :P It's hard to talk about what is offensive since the word offensive itself has a lot of connotations (I'm imagining SJWs or conservatives) and also because of the difference between feeling offended and saying you are offended (a lot of times it seems to come from principles, more than actual feelings, sort of when people say "that's offensive" on behalf of someone else).
 
Seriously speaking, it's hard to not find issue with a lot of the things people say or do after you've taken a class in Sociology. Even the little things you take for granted take on an underlying meaning. The problem with a lot of people who have learned a lot of this(including myself) are ultra preachy. Instead of calmly educating people on the issues, they attack others who don't believe that they're doing anything wrong.

Being offended is a feeling everyone is entitled to having and expressing. I also understand that it can put off other people when used antagonistically.
 
It's not difficult to trigger me.

I was born as a gun.

But in reality no. I really don't get offended honestly. I can't even remember the last time I might have been offended to any extent really.
 
Let's just say, if you were to slap me with a glove and question my honour, I'd be offended.

Other than that, couldn't give two shits if someone chooses to offend me for laughs or a genuine dislike of me.
 
I have pretty thick skin from being around other guys for a large portion of my life, talkin' smack came as easily as taking a breath. It would take a very direct and personal insult to get me pissed/offended.
 
I'm probably the one offending people because they can't handle/understand a bit of sarcasm, to be honest.

No, I'm not easily offended. How do I handle it? With logical interjections, like I handle everything.
 
It's adorable people pretend they don't ever get offended. Especially when I can go through everyone claiming such and find posts of them being offended. Is there some sort of assumed 'cred' associated with not being offended now?
 
Nothing offends me, but people who go out of their way to be offended by every non issue do annoy me.
 
NoblesseOblige said:
It's adorable people pretend they don't ever get offended. Especially when I can go through everyone claiming such and find posts of them being offended. Is there some sort of assumed 'cred' associated with not being offended now?
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I've seen people who say they don't get offended get upset about the "white people dancing" thread, then go on to say people angry about police brutality are overreacting.

#levels
 
NoblesseOblige said:
Was there a meeting that removed annoyed from being a synonym for offended? My dictionary literally has it in the definition.
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I think offensive is a stronger and more personal annoyance. When my brother plays his music too loud, it's a little annoying but I'd never call it offensive. But if he frequently calls me a shithead then I'm going to be offended by it.
 
Abe Bly said:
I think offensive is a stronger and more personal annoyance. When my brother plays his music too loud, it's a little annoying but I'd never call it offensive. But if he frequently calls me a shithead then I'm going to be offended by it.
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If your brother is listening to music too loud then his music is being offensive. It offends you. Making it 'stronger and more personal' is just some shoddy justification people use to feel smug about themselves. "Oh I don't get offended. I'm much too superior for that. I simply get annoyed."
 
Eh, I don't get offended so easily. If I am, then I no longer pay any attention to it, cos I'm not gonna change it and it's just gonna keep being offensive. Quite frankly I think it's stupid for people to get offended over the little things.
I know what offends me; ignorance, stupidity, assumption, uncooperative education, and American people. All of those things are at a personal touch though, like they'd have to be aimed at me for me to care. I don't go out of my way to go to places or listen to people I know I wont agree with cos I'll just get worked up over nothing. I'll just keep my distance and eat some digestives.
 
NoblesseOblige said:
If your brother is listening to music too loud then his music is being offensive. It offends you. Making it 'stronger and more personal' is just some shoddy justification people use to feel smug about themselves. "Oh I don't get offended. I'm much too superior for that. I simply get annoyed."
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Which dictionary are you using? The definition for offensive I'm getting is "causing someone to feel deeply hurt, upset, or angry." That certainly doesn't describe how I feel about minor annoyances.
 
Depends on what it is that it is being discussed, I've little patience for people being jerks and whose entire way of interacting is through thinly veiled insults passing off as "humor", If it is a respectful discussion about taboo topics, nothing is taboo or offensive to discuss with me so I don't get offended at all.

so in short

People being jerks=offended

People discussing difficult topics respectfully= not offended
 
NoblesseOblige said:
Was there a meeting that removed annoyed from being a synonym for offended? My dictionary literally has it in the definition.
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I'm pretty sure that most people using standard contemporary American English would say, without needing to look at a dictionary, that being annoyed is less severe than being offended. Something annoying may generate feelings of mild irritation, whereas something offensive is more likely to generate stronger feelings such as anger.

Similar emotions, but the main distinction is in the degree.
 
I am offended by personal attacks on my character. I am offended by personal attacks on the people I care about. Beyond that no, I am not easily offended by much. Even when someone is being bigoted, I don't speak up because I am offended, I speak up because I don't agree with them and think they deserve to have their statements challenged.
 
I am not easily offended by insults against me. Not because insults aren't a problem, but because the sort of people who hurl insults generally choose topics that don't bother me.

I get very offended when someone, generally a manager at work, implies that I screwed something up (that another worker/the manager in question actually screwed up). I don't need to accept blame for the mistakes of others, I do make plenty of my own.

Around here, if I find someone offensive, it's from a pattern of dismissive or unkind or blatantly misogynist posts. I just use the built in ignore list, and am never surprised when those mushed posts I can't see have gray names by them. I do lump people into a group of "untrainable" after seeing them refuse to take correction - that can be at work, in attitude, or in behavior. I don't dismiss them as "unredeemable" as humans, but I don't have time to interact with them either. Dunno how that categorizes me.
 
NoblesseOblige said:
Was there a meeting that removed annoyed from being a synonym for offended? My dictionary literally has it in the definition.
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To me offended means I am so man or upset that it stays with me or I do something about it. Annoyed means it just puts a bad taste in my mouth at that time but not enough to get a rise out of me. That's how I take it.
 
NoblesseOblige said:
Was there a meeting that removed annoyed from being a synonym for offended? My dictionary literally has it in the definition.
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You can annoy me without offending me, I really don't see how they're the same thing.
 
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