On offending people, people getting offended, and political correctness

If you can't stand getting offended once in a while, get off the internet.

That's really how I feel about this new wave of political correctness. Suddenly it's a grave sin to say "homophobia" - because it's ableist against people with actual phobias.

...Right.

((Last I checked, the clinical definition of a phobia was based off of it impairing normal functioning. So if you have a terrible fear of being eaten by lions, but you never encounter a lion, then by clinical definitions, you don't have a phobia because it doesn't interfere with your normal life. Homophobes think that being gay is morally wrong and so forth, and go to nearly obsessive lengths to avoid it; in less extreme examples, my dad's friend Jeff won't go to the park with just my dad for fear of being mistaken for a gay guy. That is interfering with daily life - probably not enough to call it clinical distress, admittedly - and thus it fits the clinical definition of homophobia.))

Today's example: Something within a fictional work explicitly intended to offend a character within that work. Nope, not allowed to do it, it might hurt someone's feelings. There's no way to tell a story about these issues if you're not allowed to touch the issues - sorry, some of us aren't here to make fantasy editions of racism, sexism, homophobia (Look! I said it! So ableist!), and so forth in our works. I have a very diverse cast, and I handle a lot of issues in between them that the political correctness machine wants us to pretend are invisible. I'm well aware that I'm not perfect at handling them - but the fact is, I am going to handle them.

Oh, and if you think it's not someone fetish, then you are just dumb, or possibly making some discrimination of your own against people with fetishes. Which given how uptight our culture is sexually, would not surprise me.

Real life ain't whitewashed, and neither is the internet. Get your panties out of a knot and deal with it. Don't like don't read, and all that.

PS TNT crew - you guys always know how to make me feel better. Thank you thank you so much.

Oh vatchat

No, actually, I won't understand if I run an LJ RP. If they're really such different beasts, then there's no point in me even bothering to play. But oh my god, how dare I rock the boat.

I'm used to being the lone voice of dissent. But I wish people would actually stop and think about what I'm saying instead of "that's how we've always done it." How is including a sex entry in a ONE CANON ROLEPLAY not stupid? When I think something's stupid, I confront it head on. And then I get yelled at for making conflict. Conflict is the only way to bring change, ya'll. You played TWEWY, at least some of you, I would hope that you know that.

Life ain't all flowers and happy music, vatchat. But then again, maybe if you knew that, you wouldn't have welcomed Kat back.

Sigh

I always promised myself that I'd never try to get emotional fullfillment through RP ships... But that seems to be exactly what I'm doing now.

Sigh. Alma muse, y u do dis to me?