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Can you expand on that? Why is that passive aggression?
by sethammons 3y ago
Can you expand on that? Why is that passive aggression?
- tamimio 3y agoProbably I should’ve added more context, but it usually come through the conversation in a “dismissive” manner or a way to signal “you were wrong and idiot”, and I also noticed it’s different among the age (older people don’t care or notice) and culture (Chinese for example take it as an insult), I don’t have an example but goes like this: Person A: I turned on the PC and have a blue screen. Person B: No you can’t do that, you have to plug Y first then turn it on :)! Or something along the lines, I can’t remember an example right now but I’ve seen it firsthand, give a look at this it might gives you some more context https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-rundown-since-when-are-smiley-emojis-passive-aggressive/a12d68ee-1171-4c3a-91d3-7989496d8dba https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-rundown-since-when-are-smil...
- sethammons 3y agogotcha, I can see where you are coming from. fwiw, I tend to end potentially negatively received comments with a smile to let the person know I'm not angry or anything, just happy to be helping :)