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 Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:53 pm
After the last week of really being out of the house and into the RL social sphere, it has really been brought to my attention how incredibly insane Political Correctness has become...
For a little background, you really should know that I am a stay-at-home mother at the moment. I spend the days with my 3, almost 4, year old daughter, and wait for my 9 year old son to get off of the bus. I live VERY rural, and I get to go to the city for shopping about twice a month. It has been this way for a year now.
After the kids go to bed, I sometimes do indulge in a bit of Colbert, Southpark, or Family Guy. Yeah, they are offensive at times, but a long time ago I realized how destructive and wasteful it is to allow myself to take offense at things said, or at others shocking behavior.
It is really shocking to have extended interaction with people I don't know, especially compared to how things were just over a year ago.
Anyway, I don't think I had one day where when I was talking to someone, they didn't apologize for something they said. In fact, I am sure that it was more like an hourly basis sort of thing.
I am one of those people who would only like to here the word "Sorry" when it is really meant. By the end of the week, I wanted to slap people when they said it. Seriously, I was getting offended at people thinking they offended me. stressed
As a Christian, I honestly think that if I were someone who takes offense easily I would be damaging my relationship to God. All I can think about when I am offended is how I was treated. It's all about me and my feelings, and it steals my focus on what I should be doing for other people.
Offense is a feeling based in selfishness, so I guess it is only natural for a society based on fulfilling selfish desires would start a whole movement to protect peoples' selfish pride.... At least, that's how I look at it.
I believe that being offended is one of the main ways we are distracted from our straight-and-narrow.
On the other hand, I work hard not to offend people. I don't worry that I am offending someone with every action or word I say, because I am focusing on extending love and grace to the people I interact with. Not that I am perfect or anything, I do offend people with my blunt nature at times, but most of those people know I didn't mean to hurt, and because of it, they are willing to let me make it right.
For some reason though, it is hard for me to take people seriously anymore because of so many conversations broke by the word 'sorry', and the explanation as to why someone felt they should say it.
What is your input on the matter?
Do you really feel like you 'have the right' to be offended when people make statements that may or may not directly or indirectly incorporate you into the subject?
Do you think it is worth devoting your effort of emotion to?
What are your thoughts concerning a Christian's prerogative to be offended?
Why?
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:31 pm
Agreed 100%. I have significant difficulties in social settings because my Parents raised me to speak my mind, and I do so often. In my family, 'a*****e' is not derogatory, it is a compliment, one I grew extremely fond of at a young age because initially I thought they were just telling me how much my Father I was(guess the one word people tend to use to describe him most, as).
But, yeah, I disagree with Political Correctness. I feel that by holding back my own thoughts, I am withholding information that a person could use to better themselves, which is no better than a lie of omission.
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Contralto in a Corset Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:35 pm
Yeah, I think not letting people know what you feel they should know can be pretty devastating at times... It hurts to hear some things, but then it hurts worse not to hear them.... but I'm not just talking about that....
I am referring to the mindset that people have that they have 'the right' to get upset at another person's ignorance, lack of tact, or inability to 'correctly' identify an idea they are trying to communicate.
It's gotten so bad that people are actually scared to voice what they are thinking. I am also talking about the way people take harmless statements to heart, and make issue of them....
Things like ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, generation, location, ancestry, etc. Things that most individuals agree mean absolutely nothing, yet society in general is blowing into grandiose platforms of debate.
The more we keep the issues that we 'must be politically correct' about front and central, we aren't going to make any headway. I could tick them off here and now, but I might be afraid of page stretching. LOL
Anyway, as Christians, I honestly think we should take a stand and purposefully NOT be offended. Most people don't want to offend anyone, so why get bent out of shape when they accidentally say something that slightly rubs you the wrong way. The few people who do mean to offend you only get what they want when you take offense.
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:35 am
You know, not one meeting with my one producer goes by without him saying something that can be construed as negative (but isn't really) about Christianity, and every time he treats me like he just said something that bothers me. It's like "I'm the Christian Guy".
Yeah, I'm the Christian Guy who listens to punk Rock, owns a copy of 'Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter', and is a card carrying communist. I'm not going to be offended by jack, at this point.
I am offended by one thing, this notion that I'm "sensitive' and my feelings should be protected.
I don't. I feel that, as a good person, anyone would shy away from being unnecessarily mean, crude, or blunt. Key there is UNNECESSARILY. And that's also not the same thing as being politically correct. The Politically correct thing to do is not refer to my retarded coworker as retarded. Doesn't matter if its true, somehow this is politically incorrect. I hate that.
See, the wrong thing to do is call somebody at a work a retard because I think they are being an idiot.
I'm going to be as direct as possible at all times, and sometimes even a dose of meanness. That's just how I am. But I'm not going to run around being crude, mean, and spiteful. I have an unreal expectation of people, that they do the same thing.
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:39 pm
I figure most of us here are that way... but do you think that ultimately we are outnumbered by those who really are concerned about PC? That was the question I started asking myself last week.
That, and the question, how did we allow it to get this bad?
I mean, I know not us as individuals, but society in general has allowed it, and nurtured it...
I have started going back to church on Sundays, something I had stopped for a couple years for various reasons I won't go into right now, but I noticed that with even such a small congregation, it's an eggshell extravaganza so very often. Why should Christian congregations be that way at all? IMO, and from what I take from the Bible, there really should be no room for it in a secure daily walk.
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