Why are people so easily offended? Taking things out of context seems common...

[Sam(my)I am]

Thank You
The most intelligent post I  have seen on the problem for many years.

Cindy

Oh, er, why thanks ^^ means a lot coming from you Cindy  , honestly though I probably could have worded it better but then it'd be less short sweet and to the point.

[Da Monkey]

also I think this hits the nail on the head for many that I have met ~ http://transgirldiaries.com/?p=1244

Myself personally I actually enjoy a good ribbing (joke not a condom I swear someone would make the comment) because I understand the best way to be comfortable with something is to laugh about it.

Hahahahah yesss I so agree. I found that making jokes about myself being trans made my family WAY more comfortable rather than screaming down their throats whenever they tried to challenge me on it or when they just totally didn't understand it.

I am glad I am not the only one who thinks some trans people need to chill out. I have a trans friend who I used to work with who would flip his ->-bleeped-<- at co-workers when they genuinely misgendered him so much that when they did the same to me they apologised so many times and looked terrified. I was like woah it's okay I don't care.

Just remember you're doing this for you, you're not doing it for anyone else.

[Butterflyhugs]

I joke about being trans all the time when I'm around people who know; I think it's funny, especially in certain situations.

But there's an obvious difference between making lighthearted jokes and deliberately insulting someone else.

[Annah]

I joke about being trans all the time when I'm around people who know; I think it's funny, especially in certain situations.

But there's an obvious difference between making lighthearted jokes and deliberately insulting someone else.

totally agree. I have a friend who is an administrator for my Seminary. We lightheartedly make fun of each other all the time. She calls me the ugly ->-bleeped-<- and I call her the lesbian who is too afraid to come out of the closet. It's all in good jest.

The nature in which someone talks to you makes all the difference in the world if they are just joking around or if they are simply being destructive.

[Joeyboo~ :3]

Me and my friends were buzzed and talking about who would all die if we were in a horror movie.

Everyone picked on me and said I'd just be like the random black guy who always gets killed, because "no one takes trannies seriously"

i laughed for about 10 minutes straight 

[Sam(my)I am]

Me and my friends were buzzed and talking about who would all die if we were in a horror movie.

Everyone picked on me and said I'd just be like the random black guy who always gets killed, because "no one takes trannies seriously"

i laughed for about 10 minutes straight 

lol for some reason that just cracks me up I'm imagining a trans girl in all the movies I've seen with a sacrificial black guy and let me tell you the image is just soooo funny such as "Core" XD

but on a humerus/serious note if no one took us seriously then whats all this hoopla with some of the religions  throwing scriptures at us?
If it's "just some crazed person" then why even get huffy about it? (food for thought )

[Butterflyhugs]

Because the same "values" that "crazy person" is referencing are institutionalized in our governments and continually used to relegate us to the lowest classes of existence?

[Mahsa Tezani]

Most of the time I'm the one doing the offending... I had no idea my lifestyle could offend people so.

As I always say, "it's not easy being green"

[Sam(my)I am]

Most of the time I'm the one doing the offending... I had no idea my lifestyle could offend people so.

As I always say, "it's not easy being green"

Jolly Green Giant?

[Mahsa Tezani]

Jolly Green Giant?

Nothing sexual about that. Rite of Spring is next spring if my estimations are correct.

[winter88]

I've noticed these things as well, and I do find it kind of amusing ...
A lot of people seem to play right into their gender stereotypes. We've got a lot of catty women and calm guys here.

MEOW. LOL

[Sam(my)I am]

Nothing sexual about that. Rite of Spring is next spring if my estimations are correct.

hrm rite of spring... why's that sound familiar? .... maybe it had to do with my ex gf she was a Wicca (Wiccan?)

lol Winter88 XD
though I've always been calm eerily so by some...

[furlock]

I loved the video!!!

I am offended each time someone calls me a Christian, I am a follower of Yeshuaa, Jesus Christ, literally translates into The Anointed Messiah Yeshuaa. 

No really Christianity, literally translates into Followers of the Anointed One Jesus.

So I am a woman does that mean I can be offended because I was born male?

The only thing we should have the innate right to be offended with, is when anyone steals our future and lively hood all in the name of globalization and the moral majority or the 1%.

[Guantanamera]

I joke about being trans all the time when I'm around people who know; I think it's funny, especially in certain situations.

But there's an obvious difference between making lighthearted jokes and deliberately insulting someone else.

Just the other day (fetching a paper for her in the rain across campus):

Girlie: Do you want an umbrella? Or my boots?
Me: What do I look like to you,  a girl? (See: Puzzled expression.)