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Can I rattle off “sticks and stones…” or is that too aggressive in 2022?! What’s next? It’s not that I’m superior, not at all. I consider myself normal. Jaw d

Can I rattle off “sticks and stones…” or is that too aggressive in 2022?! What’s next? It’s not that I’m superior, not at all. I consider myself normal. Jaw dropping reactions to Peter Pan is not normal. Let’s agree to make that distinction now.

krastanov 5y ago
Again, my question was, how do you expect to start a fruitful conversation with someone if your opening salvo is to try to offend them. Do you expect you will change anyone's mind? It does not matter if you are right if you can not illuminate the people around you.
- zionic 5y ago
  >Again, my question was, how do you expect to start a fruitful conversation with someone That's just it though, there _isn't_ a fruitful conversation to be had with someone suggesting that a "jaw dropping" reaction to a children's cartoon is normal.
  - krastanov 5y ago
    You used the words "snowflake" to describe someone who was trying to start a conversation, and I assume you would ascribe it to me as well (there are old Mickey Mouse cartoons I would call "jaw dropping" and I would probably have used similar hyperbole to describe racist stereotypes in more recent media or recently changed names of sports clubs). Yet you are the only one acting triggered and refusing to even talk through what they found so silly or offensive in other people's behavior.
    - zionic 5y ago
      >You used the words "snowflake" to describe someone who was trying to start a conversation I'm not the one you're talking about. >Yet you are the only one acting triggered and refusing to even talk through what they found so silly or offensive in other people's behavior. If you can't even be bothered to reply to the right person, I don't see how we can have a productive conversation.
      - krastanov 5y ago
        My bad for the mixup! The rest still stands though, seems weird to start a conversation with an insult.
        zionic 5y ago
        Sure, but I didn’t start our conversation with an insult so…?
- jimmygrapes 5y ago
  I'm gonna steelman here and say that "jaw dropping" and similar language describing the reaction of the original poster was hyperbole in the same realm as "I shit my pants at [jumpscare]"

krastanov 5y ago

Again, my question was, how do you expect to start a fruitful conversation with someone if your opening salvo is to try to offend them. Do you expect you will change anyone's mind? It does not matter if you are right if you can not illuminate the people around you.

zionic 5y ago
>Again, my question was, how do you expect to start a fruitful conversation with someone That's just it though, there _isn't_ a fruitful conversation to be had with someone suggesting that a "jaw dropping" reaction to a children's cartoon is normal.
- krastanov 5y ago
  You used the words "snowflake" to describe someone who was trying to start a conversation, and I assume you would ascribe it to me as well (there are old Mickey Mouse cartoons I would call "jaw dropping" and I would probably have used similar hyperbole to describe racist stereotypes in more recent media or recently changed names of sports clubs). Yet you are the only one acting triggered and refusing to even talk through what they found so silly or offensive in other people's behavior.
  - zionic 5y ago
    >You used the words "snowflake" to describe someone who was trying to start a conversation I'm not the one you're talking about. >Yet you are the only one acting triggered and refusing to even talk through what they found so silly or offensive in other people's behavior. If you can't even be bothered to reply to the right person, I don't see how we can have a productive conversation.
    - krastanov 5y ago
      My bad for the mixup! The rest still stands though, seems weird to start a conversation with an insult.
      - zionic 5y ago
        Sure, but I didn’t start our conversation with an insult so…?
jimmygrapes 5y ago
I'm gonna steelman here and say that "jaw dropping" and similar language describing the reaction of the original poster was hyperbole in the same realm as "I shit my pants at [jumpscare]"