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the_average_gatsby
· 6 years ago
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I think its less about how easily people are actually offended, and more about how most of the things people get so up in arms about are stupid non-issues.
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xvarnah
· 6 years ago
^ although I'm pretty sure stepping on a shadow could also fall into the "non-issue" category in a hurry. Unless you're 2, in which case everything involving shadows tends to be a lot more serious
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sir_spiderman
· 6 years ago
*dry humps your shadow with my shadow*
xvarnah
· 6 years ago
Case in point ^ this would definitely be 1000x more serious if I were 2
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sir_spiderman
· 6 years ago
I can think of many reasons why dryhumping a two year old's shadow is a lot more serious.
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popsy
· 6 years ago
It's hard to compare challenging another person to fight to the death with wanting a safe space
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guest_
· 6 years ago
It’s not really that hard. Either way the actual issue is never hashed out, but one way someone ends up dead, and the other way they both go off to their respective comments section to talk about how the other one shouldn’t exist. The second way there’s a better chance that at least one person might eventually change their view, the first way uses “might makes right” to make sure there’s only one opinion left when all the battles are over.
felman87
· 6 years ago
Hell, just in my lifetime, people threw a shitfit over Mortal Kombat. Not the reboot's gore-y violence. The cartoon-y violence from the original. We had a senate hearing over it.
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guest_
· 6 years ago
And a “secret” blood code for Gamegear “snuck in.” The first GTA was controversial, but games weren’t as popular or widespread back then. People like to talk about how “easily offended” folks are, but we’ve had music panicks from jazz, rock, rap... a 2 piece bikini was a legal offense, and married couples on TV went from not being able to show the bedroom, to having to sleep in separate beds. Tv’s first US network “black/white” interracial kiss was in 1968, no more than 30 or so years before the youngest people who should be on here were born- and they were terrified it would cause riots. Over a kiss. So nah. People aren’t more easily offended. Some people always have been, and the rest is just a change in climate that society is finally saying it isn’t ok to make people feel bad about who they are or exclude them. Society is growing up, and some people don’t want to grow up too so they blame others for being “too sensitive.”
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guest_
· 6 years ago
Ever notice how complaints about people being “too sensitive” almost always involve a complaint that a person has to change their behavior, or put effort into learning new things? The two chief defenses being either that “this is how things have been so why change?” (in which case why did women get the right to vote, and when did people fly before airplanes and gliders?) and to respond to another person saying yoir actions make them feel uncomfortable or bad, by making things about you and how you don’t want to put any effort into coexisting with other people? It’s funny that often people say “too sensitive” or “baby” or “snowflake” to people. Society changes, we don’t have Pharos or slaves, women can work and drive, child labor is illegal- all changes as a society grows and matures. Those who resist social progress are the babies. Too sensitive and insecure to adapt to a system that threatens their traditions. Society is just asking you to behave in public as though other people exist
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