Offence is easy to cause, often we do it without even thinking about it. Sometimes we can brush it off without thinking too much about it. "What someone I don't know thinks that something I did without realising was offensive? Fuck 'em!" Other times it's more difficult.
Today I managed to cause offence to someone I really liked via the medium of the internet and she blocked me before I had a chance to explain. The internet makes us all autistic, it removes context and nuance from our words, often I've found myself getting really angry at something that someone's said to me on an internet forum and told a third party what they've said and the third party has responded "That's only horrible with the intonation you've given that. Read it in a silly or daft voice or as if they're being sycophantic and then think about it?"
To which I always fly into a rage and tell them they don't know what it's like and then flounce out, before realising that I'm being unreasonable and then flouncing back in to apologise.
T'was ever thus.
Today I managed to cause offence to someone I really liked via the medium of the internet and she blocked me before I had a chance to explain. The internet makes us all autistic, it removes context and nuance from our words, often I've found myself getting really angry at something that someone's said to me on an internet forum and told a third party what they've said and the third party has responded "That's only horrible with the intonation you've given that. Read it in a silly or daft voice or as if they're being sycophantic and then think about it?"
To which I always fly into a rage and tell them they don't know what it's like and then flounce out, before realising that I'm being unreasonable and then flouncing back in to apologise.
T'was ever thus.
