This Post is Offensive

     Sometimes when I watch YouTube videos about, let's say, people playing "Heads Up" and the category is, let's say again, accents, I find that these people apologize for their viewers because some of them will be (offended) by their pronunciation. At first I'm like, okay, they're being too considerate, but alright. But then more people, and more videos I keep hearing apologies for people who were offended by very very, very simple things, and viewers in the comment section are expressing their (gratitude) over their (consideration) of other people, in words like "Thank you Josh, we forgive you". And that pissed me off.
     I don't know if it's a recent thing or it's been going for so long and I was oblivious about it, but people everywhere started to pick a hobby of being offended over everything. And in other words, they can't take a joke. So I decided to write a letter for them, just to give them a little peak of how the rest of us feel. Oh wait, some of us, not the rest of us ALL, because.. that's offensive, right?



Dear overly sensitive person,

You can't take a joke.
You being offended does not mean by any explanation in the whole dictionary of explanations that what I said discriminated you, that you were humiliated till it turned your soul to ashes and the wind blew it with the dust.
You being offended does not always mean you get rights. It does not mean that I have to apologize to you every time your fragile being was hurt by me calling hair messy, or your car dirty, or your favorite singer annoying.
You being offended means that you should stop taking every single thing personally.

Now I'm not saying that (actual) offensive jokes are okay, no they're not. But you should use your brain to see what's (actually) offensive and what's not.

As the comedian Steve Hughes says: "Being offended is subjective, has everything to do with you as an individual, or a collective, or a group, or a society, or a community, your moral conditioning, your religious beliefs" and still, it does not mean that whatever I say about what you consider yourself a part of, or what represents you, is offensive, there are limits that can't be crossed, what above these limits you can either let go or laugh along about.


Dear overly sensitive person,

You can't be offended if I hate your favorite football team, or when I say that your favorite actor can't act, or that your cooking is a bit too salty. If that's offensive, then I'm offended with your duck face every time you take a picture for God's sake!

What are you going to do when I say I don't like Beyoncé? Huh? You're gonna cry? Call the cops? Pray that her halo won't fade away? (I like that song tho). And what will happen to you when I do say that? Nothing. Exactly nothing. You'll tell me "I'm offended by that" and ask me to be (respectful) and then the next morning you're shouting at the barista why didn't he give you two packs of sugar instead of one.

I'm not offensive, my dear friend. I don't have to be more considerate about your feelings for something like that, and I surely as hell don't have to apologize, because I won't. But you need to learn that sometimes that you're being an idiot, a child, you want everyone to rub on your back and smile at you and give you their best wished that you beat Oxide Ride in Crash Bash (That's the only game I know. Stop judging), or they're nothing but horrible, awful, evil people. You need to learn how to laugh when something funny is told, and learn that not just because it's a joke about that topic, it's offensive. Grow up. Let it go, and don't start singing that song or I swear to God..


Dear overly sensitive person, 

If what I said above clicked something in you, made you rethink about things you got upset about when you shouldn't have, you're going in the right direction, and one day you'll look back at your old self and feel accomplished. If you think I'm mean and that I'm wrong with being really upset about people like you, well, I warned you in the title, and I wish you a long life filled with people lying to your face so that you won't be hurt. I wish you success in writing your book of things that offend you. I wish you a record filled with law suits you filed against people who offended you, and law suits people filed against you because they were offended when you filed law suit against them for being offensive. 

I wish this letter offended you.



Sincerely,
Duaa