It was directly relating the word well-dressed person of quality to Alaina literally years ago (not by me, I simply pointed out the funny way she phrased it) that upset her while she was at that god damn moment telling people not to be upset by her behavior from years ago . Like, mind-blowing lack of self-awareness.Firimei Lang wrote: It was someone directly relating that C word to Alaina which upset her.
Nah, you think you grew up, but you're still rage-quitting and running from issues and still pouring your feelings somewhere unhealthy. Take for instance your particular issue with being called a hateful word - totally fair and understandable. But running away from it?krul wrote:
I grew up.
Hi, Rig. How's it going? You want to be fair to people who like to call people faggots? There's really no defense of it. You see, you might, being a young gun, think of it as just a word, but to a lot of people it's not just a word. It's nothing like well-dressed person of quality. Or a small cat called Nigel. It's a word with a long hateful history and if you see it as "just a word", consider that you're lucky nobody's ever yelled it at you while beating you to an inch of your life for just being who you are. I can't explain it any better than Louie CK did:Rig wrote:To be somewhat far to the ones whom like to call people faggots, there is a script and ignore command so you cannot hear them call you a a small bundle of twigs, commonly used for fuel or so you do not hear them say slurs that offend you
I know you're not truly hateful, so don't be a well-dressed person of quality; consider calling people other awesome words offered by the English language without the baggage of such hate. It's way better when they get offended by words that aren't actually so heavy and ignore the fact that somebody just posted in defense of people who like to call other people faggots in a mad dash to prove their truly virtuous self-righteousness.Well, the word “a small bundle of twigs, commonly used for fuel” really means a bundle of sticks used for kindling in a fire. Now, in the middle ages, when they used to burn people they thought were witches? They used to burn homosexuals, too. And, they used to burn the witches at a stake, but they thought the homosexuals were too low and disgusting to be given a stake to be burnt on, so they used to just throw them in with the kindling, with the other faggots. So that’s how you get “flaming a small bundle of twigs, commonly used for fuel.”
I'm sort of done with this thread, so I'll go out with a topical suggestion: it'd be awkward to vote to burn somebody at the stake as a part of your future WoTMafia game now, so maybe avoid that. Enjoy.
I'll see you at the Sanderson read-through, Krul!