Oh Lordie Be! Spank my butt. Sometimes one really has to behave as if one is walking on egg shells around here!
As I recently posted on another thread when somebody said "I am offended", my viewpoint on "I am offended", no matter who says it is this:
People who are offended in any way by anything most likely need some form of therapy to get over whatever it is that "offends them". Anybody can say anything to me in any way these choose, and I don't and won't care! I sure won't get offended about anything anyone says or writes. And, neither should anyone else. I suspect that "getting offended" involves some aspect of an "ego".
Any offense that you take in any situation exists IN YOU - and NOT out there.
It is YOUR "mental state of being offended". Let it go. Stop contributing to and with it. But then, people who "get offended" tend to ENJOY dramatizing his or her state of being offended. Just watch 'em. Oh, they get a great deal of juice out of it! They often pump it up. I see it often as a form of manipulation.
Words, are only words, with ALL meaning for you in YOUR head, even if and when the words actually do spell out
real or legitimate accusations. All significance is YOUR significance.
The Church of Scientology PR machine uses the "I am offended" ploy at times as a way to defuse legitimate criticism of the Church. They mock up this "righteous indignation" flow, which is so disingenuous. Plus, really, no trained Scientologist EVER feels anything remotely like that. It is entirely a MOCK UP, used to create an effect on OTHERS. The person who claims offense SEEMS to aiming attention at how badly he or she feels, but really, the intention is to affect YOU - to make you somehow change because you take the claim of his or her offense seriously. I never do.
While it is true that some of the time certain people might go out of their way to actually offend you, in the end, it is ONLY the offended person who gives anyone else power over him or her by getting offended at all in the first place. You give the words life and energy to "hurt" you if you actually do get offended about ANYTHING. Ah, this neurotic modern western civilization - where people run around chronically in states of offense. Wake up and grow up! That's my honest response to any "offendee".
LASTLY, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE STATION, CHANGE IT! Nobody is forcing you to listen to or take seriously what you imagine it is that seems to "offend you".
I view anyone suspiciously who uses the "I am offended card". They are either trying to play me in some way or have serious unresolved mental problems and personal issues.
I'm a nice guy, really.