What the hell is wrong with people?
Aug. 2nd, 2005 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_richI am so sick of online rudeness. There's not really any particular trigger, just in general.
No, I don't mean the teasing jabs people take at one another when they know each other. And I don't mean simply disagreeing with one another; rudeness is not refusing to agree, but refusing to disagree cordially.
And I don't mean witty things, really. I like wit; I occasionally use wit. Wit greases a smartass remark and elevates it from the verbal equivalent of flipping someone off, to waving at them with your middle finger just slightly raised above the rest. A good, witty comeback has been known to make me laugh when the same response, phrased rudely or poorly, would piss me off.
No, what I mean is RUDENESS. People who disagree with you and then feel the need to add something like "get over it" or "shut the fuck up." What, it's not enough they're not agreeing with you? To me, if someone's disagreeing, that already signals to me ... well, disagreement. Why add displeasure to an otherwise benign posting or correspondence?
"I like the color red."
"Well, I don't like red. I think midnight blue looks better in most cases - which is why I like amphibians over mammals. The bleeding is so much prettier."
To me, that is wit. THIS is rudeness:
"I hate red. I think it's ugly. Why don't you quit showing your ignorance and crawl back under your rock, and let other people figure out the right colors, k?"
And it's not just to me. I get pissed off when I see someone else being treated this way - granted, I have to see the "conversation" from start to finish and watch it develop (because otherwise, how do you know these two people don't know each other offline, or that the person being insulted did something to rightfully deserve the rudeness, elsewhere?). But still, it's easy to get pissed off on someone else's behalf.
This rant brought to you by various online posting forums, mailing lists, countless misinterpreted IM conversations, and caffeine.
No, I don't mean the teasing jabs people take at one another when they know each other. And I don't mean simply disagreeing with one another; rudeness is not refusing to agree, but refusing to disagree cordially.
And I don't mean witty things, really. I like wit; I occasionally use wit. Wit greases a smartass remark and elevates it from the verbal equivalent of flipping someone off, to waving at them with your middle finger just slightly raised above the rest. A good, witty comeback has been known to make me laugh when the same response, phrased rudely or poorly, would piss me off.
No, what I mean is RUDENESS. People who disagree with you and then feel the need to add something like "get over it" or "shut the fuck up." What, it's not enough they're not agreeing with you? To me, if someone's disagreeing, that already signals to me ... well, disagreement. Why add displeasure to an otherwise benign posting or correspondence?
"I like the color red."
"Well, I don't like red. I think midnight blue looks better in most cases - which is why I like amphibians over mammals. The bleeding is so much prettier."
To me, that is wit. THIS is rudeness:
"I hate red. I think it's ugly. Why don't you quit showing your ignorance and crawl back under your rock, and let other people figure out the right colors, k?"
And it's not just to me. I get pissed off when I see someone else being treated this way - granted, I have to see the "conversation" from start to finish and watch it develop (because otherwise, how do you know these two people don't know each other offline, or that the person being insulted did something to rightfully deserve the rudeness, elsewhere?). But still, it's easy to get pissed off on someone else's behalf.
This rant brought to you by various online posting forums, mailing lists, countless misinterpreted IM conversations, and caffeine.
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Date: 2005-08-03 10:28 am (UTC)I love what I do for a living, I just wish I were paid more. LOL