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▲ hattmall an hour ago

Ok, but like were you offended, I feel like it's mostly a harmless slightly funny observation. I wasn't there but like were they really trying to be mean spirited with it? I live in the south and there's a pretty much constant running stream of public commentary on any and everything going on and 99.9% of it is friendly intentioned even if on the surface it's deriding. So really the idea of thinking someone is making a meaningful judgement is strange. And of course, even if they really were, why care?

▲pixelatedindex an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> I wasn't there but like were they really trying to be mean spirited with it?

Flip genders and most likely people say things like this. Somehow men are just expected to deal with this but if it’s directed at a woman it’s all bad.

▲beedeebeedee an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I’ll jump in- why care? Because it sucks to have people taking pot shots at you. If it is just one, then sure, that isn’t so bad, but when you have a group doing it, it can become existential. You may not have seen this type of violence before but it is unsettling. A group of people can do low effort violence that feels fun and harmless to them (each taking a lazy swing at someone), but the cumulative effect can be beating up or killing someone. Getting yelled at, or having someone write threatening things to you, is not as bad as being punched or having a stone thrown, but it is still damaging to humans.

▲senderista 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

Not all hurtful and harmful behavior is violence and we need to maintain the distinction.

▲icantevenhold 37 minutes ago | parent [-]

Don’t want to be the semantics guy but hurtful and harmful behaviour is by definition violence.

▲senderista 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

By whose definition?