The world is becoming overly sensitive with each passing day. Whether its a good thing or a bad thing is absolutely relative but one thing's for sure -that its demand of bandages is becoming as addictive as orgasms.
Everyday, I hear about vegans getting upset over being asked "where do you get your proteins from" or people getting offended on someone else making fun of their religion.
From starting a movement of calling overweight women as full figured to not calling African Americans as Black. From taking offense to Explicit pictures of Indian Goddesses (India specific) to frowning upon pointing to that guy in a turban (First world country specific).
Recently, there were national elections in India, the person who won, openly endorses the Hindu religion and swears to make his moves keeping in mind the principles of his religion. During the Campaign his followers used to take his name with the religious slogans to a point of actually comparing him with an Avatar of the god himself. Many people who weren't his followers (and for political reasons) took offense at that complaining that, this is sort of projecting oneself as the god and hence it is wrong. His followers said there's nothing wrong with that.
Here are my questions for both his supporters and his detractors
1) Since you oppose this activity- does that mean, your faith in your religion is so small to be ruffled by just a bunch of people believing in another person as godlike?
2) Since you support this, it means you are quite thick skinned. Why is it then, that, when someone abuses your god, do you get so hypersensitive and violent? Where does your thick skin vanish then?
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People swear by Freedom of speech and freedom of expression these days. If someone in power says something which is lets say, a bit unconventional, you will find a 100 facebook pages denouncing it. Some may even start a movement against it and have a 5K marathon in that regard. Isn't that kind of curbing someone else's freedom of speech or expression?
So what if someone is anti abortions or if someone thinks homosexuality is a unnatural. Does their thinking in a particular way change anything? Or is the person taking offense is too easy to be manipulated by the words of someone who he or she doesn't even know ?
You may be walking among an american crowd and you may see an Arab guy with a long beard or a Sikh wearing a turban. Now, if your kid starts pointing towards them, making sure that they are being the center of attention- Is that something for the Arab or the Sikh to be sensitive about? Isn't that quite natural to begin with? Its not racial, its just how the human mind reacts. If you were to see a man having absurdly long finger nails in that same crowd wouldn't you react the same way? Or if a typical Obese american with buttocks heavier than the entire weight of 2 Asians roams in Korea, won't people be noticing anyways?...Has it anything to do with race?
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I recently saw this commercial on YouTube. It was about starting a movement called "Like a Girl". In that video they were trying to explain how phrases like "throws like a girl" or "runs like a girl" are so stereotypical and at the same time so offensive to women. It went on to show that girls can actually throw just like boys or run like them and hence using "like a girl" the way its used now actually demeans women.
Now by the time I finished watching the video, the first question that came to my head was-Is this phrase even used on girls? Normally its the guys who are made fun of, if they supposedly throw or walk like a girl. How is that offensive to girls then. Besides, the physical differences between man and woman are nature given and yes that makes most men naturally good at throwing and most women naturally more mature than men and even live longer. How can something like that be offensive?
And if by some logic, it actually is offensive, then if a women farts one out really loud, would saying, 'Girl, you just farted like a man', be offensive to men? .....
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Kids are not failed in exams up to a certain age and the concept of consolation prizes is just so prevalent..Why? Because they don't want to make the other kids feel bad about not being as good as the other one. Does that mean that because the kid passes or everyone gets a prize, the weak kid won't realize the smartness of his friend ?
Does taking offense , being sensitive solve anything? Saying, all the Indians are taking high profile jobs in America is racist? Really? But isn't it a reality too?
Some people say it one way and some other- A Handicapped person is indeed a person with limited abilities and is given reservations from parking lot to jobs, but in front of him- we have to call him differently abled and not disabled?
Aren't we all supposed to be humans and with humanity comes uncountable flavors of life? If the world was to be so perfect, then wouldn't the creator of the world have made us all the same ?
Oh wait, did I ask a question which is offensive to Atheists ?
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