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I think that we should start an urban legend for nipless top surgery folks. Something like "If you purple nurple someone hard enough they actually turn purple and fall off". So that someday a kid will see me at the beach or something and I can be like "It Could Happen To You"
Maybe it's the neurodivergence, but one thing I cannot and have not ever been able to understand is why being offended at something is considered such a cardinal sin.
For example, some of you may remember an advertisement campaign from Dr Pepper from the early 2010's that "Dr Pepper is not for women!". A friend of mine wrote a very lengthy, yet calmly and rather academically written essay on why this wasn't harmless fun, and actually quite damaging and misogynistic. She posted it on her blog and shared the link over social media, and everywhere people tore her to shreds for committing the cardinal sin of being offended by something.
That was it. They had no other argument on why her essay or points were wrong or bad other than "she's offended aha!!" and then acted like they totally just owned her and put her in her place by pointing this out. Am I missing something? Why is it worse to be offended than to be offensive?
If you step on my toes, and I yell "ouch!" would you take your foot off of mine and apologize, or would you mock me for being hurt by you stepping on my toes? In what bizarro world would we consider the person who yelled "ouch!" to be weak, or worthy of being mocked, or committing some cardinal offense for yelling "ouch!" instead of just being chill with someone standing on their toes?
I've gotten a few notes insinuating this is a U.S. specific issue, and I want to clarify that not only is this definitely a problem in many places across Europe, but also "Americans are overly sensitive snowflakes who get offended at everything" is a common talking point I've heard from people from various places across Europe, and I'm not even talking about what would be a legitimate criticism like a USAmerican tourist getting offended by a nude statue in Italy, I'm talking about how common it is to hear things like "I can't believe Americans are so sensitive and fragile that I can't even use racial and ableist slurs around them without them getting upset and offended! What a bunch of whiny sensitive snowflakes!"
For example when I was taking a media class here at the University of Iceland, I had a few French classmates in that class, and one time for class we had to watch something were there were ableist jokes about a man with cerebral palsy, and one of my French classmates said "I'm not American and don't want to sound like a whiny American who gets offended at everything, but I thought it was insensitive how they made fun of and beat up that man with cerebral palsy and we were supposed to find that funny, sorry to sound like an American!"
When I lived and worked in Finland for about half a year I heard from multiple Finnish colleagues how ridiculous it was that Americans are so sensitive and uptight they actually get upset when you use the r-slur around them, what a bunch of uptight whiny babies!
When I worked retail at a souvenir shop in central Reykjavík one of my Australian co-workers asked some of our other co-workers from many various countries across Europe to stop saying racist things about customers of color, to which more than one responded something along the lines of "Oh come on you're not American, are you? Oh don't act like a sensitive American who has to cry racism at every little thing!"
When I worked an office job in the tourism sector, several of our tour groups coming from the U.S. in 2023 still had mask mandates while on the tour bus, especially when most of the people in those tour groups were elderly and/or disabled. Or many tour groups coming from the U.S. required the group to start wearing masks if someone in the group tested positive for COVID while in tour. And again, most of the people in these tour groups were elderly and/or disabled. None of our tour groups from other parts of Europe had policies like this.
My (all Icelandic) co-workers laughed and made jokes about this non-stop, things like "I can't believe Americans are so crazy and uptight that they're still afraid of a little germ in 2023! Come on it's Iceland, we're not still doing ridiculous things like that here because we're not still scared of a little germ in 2023!". One of my co-workers would specifically say things like "Well I'm a viking so I'm not scared of a little germ! Come on, they should come and cough and breath on me because we're vikings here, and vikings aren't scared of a little germ!", and generally endlessly talking about how still requiring (elderly & disabled) people to wear a mask in 2023 is proof of how ridiculous and uptight USAmericans are.
This isn't me trying to defend the U.S., this is me being sick of how much this wretched western Eurasian peninsula that due to racism we all like to pretend is its own continent uses the U.S. as this sort of scapegoat. By that I mean people love to pretend that problems that very much do exist in Europe don't actually exist here, and only exist over in the U.S.. The more we get away with this, the harder it gets to address these problems that do very much exist here when they're often dismissed as "well that's only a problem in the U.S., we don't have problems like that here in Europe!" but actually very much do. And I am very sick of it honestly.
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Wait this is some galaxy brain shit actually, I'm gonna have to start doing this.
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kids are so fucking funny. we made pride flags with the elementary schoolers and a fifth grader added a gray stripe to the progress pride flag and when i asked him what it was for he said “for the emos”
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I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.
btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here
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admire folks who reblog posts which contradict eachother. exactly! keep em guessing
