[quote=@FantasyChic]
Gonna take a detour from the previous topics.

I am seriously pissed off by how sensitive we seem to be nowadays. Recently I heard on the radio that a school in Wisconsin has banned the use of the words "Air Ball" whenever someone misses, as well as a few other words so that the kids don't feel bad. I mean, REALLY? Have we become so sensitive like that that we have to make sure we don't make anyone cry? Grow a pair and get over it.

So the kids feel bad about themselves, they'll get over it. It's healthy to feel bad about yourself, get embarrassed, etc. When you grow up, you'll have a greater threshold to get through those circumstances where people will try to make you feel bad. If we try to limit this, the kids will grow up not knowing how to handle these situations.

That may be going to the extreme, but I am sick of how PG we have to be nowadays, lest we insult someone. Too bad, I'll say whatever I feel. My opinions are just that, MY opinions. If you don't like them, great, you're entitled to that. Instead of whining about how it made you feel bad, strap on a pair, build a bridge over your river of tears, and get over it!

*deep breaths*

Ok, that felt good.
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I agree. The zero tolerance thing in schools is unhealthy. I think the problem is that we've let the middle class parent become the cultural zeitgeist in a lot of places, and the really isn't anything less soul-dead in this world. Of course the nice thing about it is that, with the internet age making it so easy to communicate, you can find your own people and swim out of all that relatively easily. And once you are an adult you won't have to deal with the BS in schools. It is only the BS in the workplace you have to deal with then, and since the entire point of work is to have the life sucked out of you for cash, bland formality is just par for the course there.

On the other hand though, I have to say that I've always found the entire "It's my opinion, i'm entitled to it, fuck off if you don't like it." attitude sort of funny. That's cool if that is what you want to do, but it gets silly when those same people start bitching about how people get offended by them. You mean you go around being a dick to other people and they got annoyed? Who would have thunk it?