I feel like most people are wildly inconsistent on this. Fat shaming? Small dick energy? How about mental illness? Baldness for some reason? Disabilities? Oh, we could probably go on about those. Some people seemingly decide a line is too simple and draw a complex sine function instead.
My rule is to try to be decent. Sometimes, I even succeed. But I don’t think I’m very good at it, and neither are most of you. Bunch of hypocrites, we are.
The issue is that even when your target is “up”, using common characteristics as insults means lots of people below that are going to catch strays, as it were.
I’m not really sure when it happened, but I’d say people were generally pretty successful at destroying the old social norms. There’s a lot of terrible slurs that are no longer socially acceptable to say today, there was a lot of power that white men had in conversations that was stripped from them, it was good to get rid of.
The problem is that we didn’t really replace it with anything. There was no great basic decency movement, nothing new about treating people with respect. If anything, it seems like we’ve embraced being more toxic than ever, and have decided to invent new ways to insult and belittle each other.
I feel like most people are wildly inconsistent on this. Fat shaming? Small dick energy? How about mental illness? Baldness for some reason? Disabilities? Oh, we could probably go on about those. Some people seemingly decide a line is too simple and draw a complex sine function instead.
My rule is to try to be decent. Sometimes, I even succeed. But I don’t think I’m very good at it, and neither are most of you. Bunch of hypocrites, we are.
I’ve always liked “Just don’t punch down.” But you’re right, we’re all hypocritical in some form or another.
The issue is that even when your target is “up”, using common characteristics as insults means lots of people below that are going to catch strays, as it were.
The problem here is lots of people have different definitions of who is up or down.
I’m not really sure when it happened, but I’d say people were generally pretty successful at destroying the old social norms. There’s a lot of terrible slurs that are no longer socially acceptable to say today, there was a lot of power that white men had in conversations that was stripped from them, it was good to get rid of.
The problem is that we didn’t really replace it with anything. There was no great basic decency movement, nothing new about treating people with respect. If anything, it seems like we’ve embraced being more toxic than ever, and have decided to invent new ways to insult and belittle each other.