Frankly by This Point, I'm Offended by the Easily Offended Who Want to Run the World

Can I ask a question? Maybe you know the answer, because I haven’t been able to find it.  When exactly did it become OK for us (and by us, I mean people in general, but more specific those uptight got their panties in a wad behind their white picket fence in their double gated community) to tell complete strangers that they have offended us by their words, their actions, their clothes, their music, their choices and expect them to change in order to not offended us any more?

And oh my holy fuck how very presumptuous of us to expect the world to revolve around our collective asses.

If you are transgender, we’re offended, and we’ll write to the network that is airing the show you are appearing on thinking they will see error of their ways and tell the transgender man he has to go back in hiding and there is just no way any moral human being should be forced to watch him on television.

If you poke fun at being a girl, we’re offended, and we will raise such a stink all over the internet and boycott your stores and tell you that you are teaching our children the wrong message even though it’s our job as parents to teach them.

If you voice your beliefs, and we don’t agree with them, we’re offended. And we’ll boycott your entire chain of stores thinking that losing a few hundred dollars will clearly make you see the light and change you’re ways.

If you happen to be a winning quarterback, you are a hero, unless of course you kneel and say a prayer on the sidelines, then we’re offended because while we know in interviews you are going to give Jesus credit for helping you win the game, we don’t want it in our face during the game.

If you chose to pimp your three year old daughter out at pageants, and dress her up with extensions and wigs, and fake teeth and spray tans and fake boobs, we’re offended. BUT we won’t turn the channel and stop watching the train wreck that is your life, we’ll just sit at home and Tweet about how offended we are and what a horrible mother you are to that poor poor mistreated baby.

If you have more than one wife and you all live in the same house and that’s the life you so choose to live, we’ll be offended, but mainly because you’re ugly and their stupid.

If you’re a Kardashian, we’re offended. Period.

These are obviously very public examples, but they happen in our day to day lives just as often.  A woman in a restaurant I went to recently, told a guy at a nearby table that his language offended her and there was no need to use that kind of language in a public place.   I will admit he had dropped a few f-bombs, but freedom of speech and all.  His response to her? Well, ma’am sorry you’re offended, but really you shouldn’t be eavesdropping on a conversation that doesn’t include you in the first place.

We have a choice.  We ALWAYS have a choice.  We can chose to ignore it, or we change choose to be offended by it. But unless someone is being harmed, we can’t expect someone else to stop offending us.  There are a lot of things and people out there who will do/say/wear/choose/think blah blah blah something that will offend us.  Thank god not all of us are offended.

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That picture, found here, is what started this whole post.  A lady pulled up beside this jeep and told the driver that the wheel cover was offensive and that is scared her 3 year old daughter.  Ok, Lady, then don’t follow the jeep. Pull over, pull into a parking lot, change lanes, distract your three year old. I had three of them, they are easily distracted in a car.

Unless someone is being hurt in some way, or in danger, real not imagined, then shut the fuck up you’re offended.