Hmm...

[michiru42]

There are definite moments where I remember that "you're too sensitive" is really only a phrase a person who's not sensitive about an issue hurls at another when they can't understand why the other person cares so much. However much you don't care about something, howevermuch you don't understand, you're not going to get logic out of someone who is

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[trillingstar]

LOLLL - she invoked a shade of Godwin's law on you!! Yeah, back away, just smile and nod, and go on about your day. *g*

[michiru42]

Fitting icon is fitting. :) And I'd never heard of Godwin's Law, thanks. I'm sure I can put it to good use.

BTW, have you seen XM:FC yet? I'm amazed you haven't jumped on the hawt hawt porn-writing wagon yet, given how through the roof the slash is.

[trillingstar]

I haven't seen it, no. I've heard it's extra slashy, but tbh, I don't really know anything about it: aren't they all, well, kids?

Probably not, if you think I should be on that wagon, hehe.

[michiru42]

You MUST see it, it's awesome, and they did a great job making sure you didn't have to know anything about the X-Men.

And no, they're not kids. Our intensly slashable heroes Charles and Erik are early thirties; they're fighting a villian named Shaw who is a forty-or-fifty-sometnhing and his sidekick Emma who's in her early thirties; they have a couple of female sidekicks who are mid-twenties and early thirties; and they're training a bunch of young mutants who they call kids, but are all of legal age, like early twenties.

[michiru42]

Oh, I think we're all stupid on certain subjects. ^_-

[omlteaufromage]

It's OK. It doesn't really matter what you think about the maturity of fictional characters when you're dealing with someone who is clearly eons less mature than any of them.

[michiru42]

LOL, that's one way to put it. (Love your icon, BTW)

[mizuno_youko]

Yes, I've always disliked the phrase "You're too sensitive." For one thing, it makes callousness sound like the default, desirable state, which is not a world I want to live in. I translate it in my head as "I don't care about this, and it's inconvenient for me that you do, so just shut up and get over it since that will make things easier or more comfortable for me." Not a sentiment I ever want to express. Plus I usually see it used by people who don't want to deal with their own racism/sexism/homophobia/whatever to put down people trying to discuss those things.

[michiru42]

That's a good way of thinking about it, that callousness is really the undesirable thing, not sensitivity. It...makes sense. :)