As a child, I am offended that women don’t like me
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By that logic I should be offended because I don’t wear a top hat when I help people or use a spoon to change the world.
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Even outside a big city, you can survive with a surprisingly limited lexicon. Once you reach a certain ‘survival’ level, you really have to work hard to improve.
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Very good work attitude!
Comes from banjo, Japanese, LaTeX, I guess. 
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Yea in Tokyo you can get by without Japanese really. That doesn’t mean you have to not use it though. I even use it with convenience store staff if only to repeat the cost back to them.
This is very true.
As a non-woman and non-child, I’m offended that you are offended that women don’t like you
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now, now, let’s all channel our inner edgy teen and resolve to hate everyone equally
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what kills me is that the person bashing millennials was supposedly in the last year of uni, which means you’d also be a millennial??? unless you went back to college at 45?
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I seriously don’t get why she was offended.
Me neither… I scrolled all the way down to try to figure this out and got nowhere. I have to admit this wasn’t the mnemonic I thought she’d be offended by - I’m afraid if she continued her head would probably explode, so probably best that she left the class.
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I think another issue is that a lot of people now adays take offense to things when no offense was intended. Women like children is like saying apples are red. Neither statement means that all women like children or all apples are red.
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I have no opinion on what’s reasonable to be offended by. I’m just saying, if an employee tells me they are offended by my saying apples are red, I can either call them crazy to be offended, or I can be courteous and not say that when I don’t have to. As you say, it’s not even strictly true anyway, so what do I care? I can tell you from experience that the “call them crazy” strategy is the hard way to do it, in exchange for no benefit to anybody. All you get even if you win is a bunch of pissed-off people. Oh, and you get to say apples are red. Congratulations.
If they’re offended because I tell them they aren’t doing a good job and that makes them feel bad, well there’s not much I can do about that.
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Yeah, who wants to be around a bunch of crazy pissed-off people?
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Or…
If an employee or anyone else is offended by me saying “apples are red” then I can say “Me saying apples are red isn’t harmful even if it isn’t always true, it is a waste of your own energy to be offended over something that isn’t even harmful and I don’t have to go out of my way to not offend you over something so trivial.”
I mean saying that is also probably a waste of energy, but I hate the idea that we should placate everyone.
You say “I can be courteous and not say that when I don’t have to” but sometimes it’s good to let people know that they’re being unreasonable, depending on your delivery.
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Good luck with that. Remember the “how most harassment cases start” part? Such a big waste of time, effort, and frustration when it’s just as easy to say “ok” and drop it.
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I would never call someone crazy. I would mostly likely ask them why they are offended so that I can understand where they are coming from and also see if they understand why they are offended. Also if the person has a legitimate reason for being offended by comment like apples are red then having a conversation will help to make sure that you avoid similar statements in the future. I don’t get offended easily but if something offends me I will always explain my feelings unless the person is just blatantly being rude and offensive.
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I agree. This seems like kind of a crazy case, but I really don’t like the underlying attitude of the opening post.
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Looking at the discussion here I think people have raised enough points and I can’t see anything else coming out of here aside from ‘I’m offended that [ x ]’ type of comments, so I’m closing this thread.
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