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Serai 1's avatar

Oh, I'm not strong at all. In fact, it's easy to hurt me sometimes. But I am also quick to the piss off, and not willing at all to allow someone else's actions to define my public image, what little there is of it. I just don't get this turn that society has somehow taken towards displaying every emotion in as loud a voice as possible. To me, when someone uses the word "shame" to describe something somebody else does to them, it's like admitting that they feelings are made of glass and they don't care who knows it. I find that weird, frankly. Why would someone flaunt such a thing? "OMG this person made me feel shame just by making a rude comment!" Really? That's all it takes? He's an asshole so you feel ashamed? When did this become the way we view other people's actions? That's why an accusation of rudeness is so much preferable to me - because it puts everything on the asshole, and not on the person they're supposedly attacking.

Sorry to go on about this, but this turn in society honestly alarms me.

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Spotting good rants is a skill.

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