Writer's Block: Peevish

[author_by_night]

[Error: unknown template qotd] A few.

1. People who use "gay" or "retarded" as an insult - especially when it's in a context similar to "prejudice is so gay" or "stereotypes are so retarded" - which I've seen more than I'd like.  I know I'm one of the few people who seems to find "retard" offensive, though.

2. Intolerance. And I'm not just saying that to be Miss America-like.

3. This is more of a self-peeve, but when I make jokes people don't get.  I tend to try and be funny, and end up looking stupid. Like how today some girl told me she got her scarf in Barcelona, and I told her  I should go there and get it... which I later realized sounded like I thought Barcelona was a store. *Facepalm* (Or maybe I'm just insecure.)

4. People who ask me what's going on during movies. Unless you're nine years old and just being a kid, WATCH THE MOVIE. (At the movie theater, anyway - I don't care if it's a DVD or VCR and I can just pause.) I've had movies I've been so excited to see completely ruined because the person I was with kept asking me questions the entire time.

Comments

[sheryden.livejournal.com]

I very much agree with 1 and 2.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Was it at the movie theater though? That's really what I mean.

And I don't mind some questioning - I basically mind type things every five minutes.

[daksian.livejournal.com]

lol, I was going to comment on this point too, but I see you beat me to it!

To Amy: I advise you to approach it this way...torment them. It's fun. :D

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on the movies! That happens to me all the time when I'm watching TV, too. Don't come and sit down 40 minutes into a hour long show and ask me what's going on, I'm trying to watch my show!

[daksian.livejournal.com]

I agree with 1 and 2, I think you're being a bit paranoid with 3, and I'm amused by 4, though to a point. In actual theatres I tell people to shut the hell up. For $12.50 I want to enjoy the damn movie, not someone else's soundtrack. :P

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Devin, but I'm fine with commenting - just not shirt pulling and "ABN, what's going on? What's happening? Why are they shouting? Where are they going?" When I saw OoTP with friends, I commented too. (And shouted at the screen one point... whoops... I'm sure the girls next to me loved me.)

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

You're not alone - I find people using retard/retarded in that way massively offensive. I think a lot of people in Britain still do. Ditto 'spazzing'. I know a lot of people probably don't mean to be offensive when they use them, but....

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I've unfortunately used "spaz" before remembering what it can really mean.

I don't think people mean to be offensive either - they're words that entered our slang. Though there is a "macro" per se that actually does use mental retardation in an offensive sense - "winning an online argument is like the special olympics: you're still a retard." The macro is of a boy with Down Syndrome running. Though even then, I don't think people mean to degrade people who are retarded... they just don't think. And if I hadn't worked with special ed kids in high school and seen the effects of "retard" firsthand, I probably wouldn't either.