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We live in an era where getting offended seems to be a global sport. And oh boy isn’t the competition tough out there! First someone gets offended by getting paid less for the same job as the next person, fine, that’s fair. Next one gets butt hurt by a guy checking her out in the office because he thought her ass looked fine as fuck in those tight jeans. Come one, we are sexual beings and if he is not a superhero with lasers shooting from his eyes, bitch you fine, take the compliment!
Now it’s an everyday life to hear someone getting offended by being referred to as he/she instead of it. Actually, I don’t know what you are supposed to call someone who doesn’t want to be a boy or a girl. Alien? Do they look like barbies or moomins between the legs? Beside the point. I'm just saying, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck... We actually don’t have this made up problem in the Finnish language because we don’t have feminine and masculine versions of words and sayings.
Don't we have real problems in this world? Like an energy crisis, wars and famine?
Are we so bored that we need to try and find nonexistent racist, inequality and chauvinistic meanings from every little thing?
Sometimes a shirt is just a shirt
I have a BOY London shirt with a huge eagle logo of theirs that closely resembles the Third Reich eagle. The brand is from the 70s punk scene in London, and they surfaced again in 2007, only then causing controversy because it’s in style to be butt hurt about everything. It’s an eagle, a fucking bird, a strong, regal and powerful bird, but still just a bird, it’s not going to hurt you.
I also have a cool retro inspired shirt with a rainbow of colours across the chest and arms, and it has absolutely nothing to do with LGBTjslfldbekdbs movement. It’s just a shirt I like. I snapped at my father when he implied my shirt had something to do with the movement. So thanks for ruining COLOURS for us LGBTQdnslsnsbk community.
Words vs. actions
Representing something in a shirt, liking a post on social media, or wearing a pin for some organisation means jack shit to me. Because that is all it is, something superficial. I only care about the action part. The real day to day actions of a person, at work, in social gatherings, at the grocery store, human to human contact. I’m stopping this here because this topic of standing for something in social media needs it’s own post, it will be a rant too, I’m sure of it.
If someone had tattooed a swastika on their forehead, but treated everyone as equals and was nice to the black bartender and even left a big tip, is he a racist? I know it’s an extreme example, but think about that one for a while. Which one matters, something stamped on a shirt or even skin, or the real life actions of the person? I know people that look scary as hell, tattooed head to toe, but are puppy dogs inside. I also know people who look all sweet and nice but are fucking monsters inside.
For me what matters are actions, not words. I know that words can hurt too, but if you get offended and butt hurt by a simple logo, a picture, or a joke, you need to check yourself. Pussy. Save the getting offended for when someone treats you like shit. Don’t use your butt hurt reserves for something that shouldn’t have any effect on your life. Especially if you try to be butt hurt for someone else. It’s more than a few times I have heard of a case where a middle aged white women complains about something being racist, when the black man hasn’t even noticed anything racist about the same subject. @escapist, you wanna tell this story in the comments?
Grow a pair, pull that stick out of your ass and get a sense of humour. Or you can’t sit with us!
< /rant >
Take everything I say with a grain of salt.