A quote I have come to depend on to keep me calm whenever I find myself feeling offended by something someone has done or said is this.
Being offended by things is a part of life, its something that is hard to avoid and easy to mistake for a crime against humanity. But here's the truth of it, people are entitled to their own opinions, if you believe that, then a part of you should also accept that this pertains even to opinions that clash with your own or are against you as a person. And so we arrive at this, people on the internet bleeting about hurt feelings are hypocrites! They fight so hard for minorities to have their say (well, they hash-tag about it anyway), just so that when they come across an opinion they don't like, they can cry indecency. I don't understand how people have the nerve to be so openly irrational and still claim to not be delusional.
Something else I have noticed whilst trawling the depths of the twitter sphere, is that people are so quick to become the very thing they spend so much time condemning (hypocrites!) A prime example of this can be witnessed whenever someone has an opinion that has not been pre-approved by the committee of group think inc. Behold! As you watch the usually so righteous Freespeechforall123 (hypothetical account) be reduced to a blathering mess of a person, spewing all manner of disgusting and irrelevant insults at Badgersarecool56 after they have the gumption to disagree with Freespeechforall123's depiction of all men as savages. It truly is hilarious, in a heartbreaking jaw dropping kind of way. The kind of people who are so easily offended as I have said in a previous post, are exactly the kind of people who should stay of the internet. They should be swaddled in bandages and locked in a padded room, wearing earplugs or sat with people who only ever agree with that they say because god forbid someone have a controversial opinion they don't get social media bullied into apologising for.
It's so sad that now to have a refreshing opinion, you need to travel only a few centimetres away from the norm. People say mean shit, people say mean shit on the internet non stop, deal with it.
This is not to say that if someone on the internet with great influence over vulnerable people says something off key that you don't agree with that you should keep quiet but there are ways to begin conversations that don't result in harassing someone and becoming the type of person you rant about on a daily basis.
I'll leave you with one final thought.
Offence is taken, not given.
Be kind to each other (grow a thicker skin people of the internet please!)
Love,
The Girl In Blue
xoxo
