I'm no longer willing to look aside for the comfort of the bigoted
I think I must be coming into my crone energy. I just am not willing to put up with people being assholes anymore.
On a picture of a large woman in a wheelchair, outside, eating directly from a block of cheese, this conversation was posted:
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[person] [I bet she has a 2 liter of coke to go with that cheese sample] (the original comment on the picture, which I apparently didn't catch in the paste, and has now been deleted; I may not be 100% accurate in the phrasing.)
Dawn Davidson That is a really offensive assumption. Did it ever occur to you that maybe she just didn't have a knife with her? I've had to eat cheese that way! Consider the radical notion that you can't judge a book by its cover.
10 minutes ago · Like · 1
[person] Oh, OK. *rolls eyes*
7 minutes ago · Like
[person] BTW- People only get offended because they CHOOSE to get offended.
6 minutes ago · Like
Dawn Davidson Oh, [person] , I am choosing not to support your bigotry against fat people. You can, of course, choose to be dismissive of my boundaries, but that doesn't mean I don't get to have them. Nor does your dismissiveness make you less bigoted.
4 minutes ago · Like · 1
[person] that case you're also humorless and too dumb to catch a joke. #getthefuckoutttahere
3 minutes ago · Like
Dawn Davidson I am already outtahere, [person] . I'm not "dumb", not humorless, and also not stupid. If that's your idea of humor, you're welcome to it. I'm sure others find it funny. Which I find just sad.
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I've seen it said that "people cannot give offense, only take it." And on the one hand, yes, it's true to a degree that one can choose one's interpretation of words. And on the other hand, "can't you take a joke" is a classic way to dismiss someone who's objecting to being marginalized. See this post here, for instance:
http://nailthatsticksup.tumblr.com/post/44134816654/when-you-say-cant-you-take-a-joke-i-hear-i
Thing is, I now HEAR this stuff. I SEE it. And I'm no longer willing to look aside for the comfort of the bigoted.
On a picture of a large woman in a wheelchair, outside, eating directly from a block of cheese, this conversation was posted:
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[person] [I bet she has a 2 liter of coke to go with that cheese sample] (the original comment on the picture, which I apparently didn't catch in the paste, and has now been deleted; I may not be 100% accurate in the phrasing.)
Dawn Davidson That is a really offensive assumption. Did it ever occur to you that maybe she just didn't have a knife with her? I've had to eat cheese that way! Consider the radical notion that you can't judge a book by its cover.
10 minutes ago · Like · 1
[person] Oh, OK. *rolls eyes*
7 minutes ago · Like
[person] BTW- People only get offended because they CHOOSE to get offended.
6 minutes ago · Like
Dawn Davidson Oh, [person] , I am choosing not to support your bigotry against fat people. You can, of course, choose to be dismissive of my boundaries, but that doesn't mean I don't get to have them. Nor does your dismissiveness make you less bigoted.
4 minutes ago · Like · 1
[person] that case you're also humorless and too dumb to catch a joke. #getthefuckoutttahere
3 minutes ago · Like
Dawn Davidson I am already outtahere, [person] . I'm not "dumb", not humorless, and also not stupid. If that's your idea of humor, you're welcome to it. I'm sure others find it funny. Which I find just sad.
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I've seen it said that "people cannot give offense, only take it." And on the one hand, yes, it's true to a degree that one can choose one's interpretation of words. And on the other hand, "can't you take a joke" is a classic way to dismiss someone who's objecting to being marginalized. See this post here, for instance:
http://nailthatsticksup.tumblr.com/post/44134816654/when-you-say-cant-you-take-a-joke-i-hear-i
Thing is, I now HEAR this stuff. I SEE it. And I'm no longer willing to look aside for the comfort of the bigoted.