How does one stay friends with people that are totally opposite to you? How does one tolerate their insensitivities when they make inappropriate jokes about people of color, people with disabilities, and people with different sexual orientation?
How do we learn to tolerate all of these things? Or do we move along to not be called 'pussy'?
It has always troubled me when I think how people drag through their days and night knowing that their words and actions have literally devastated people. Like I am friends with a group that got all excited for watching 13 Reasons Why possibly for all the hype around it, but later finding them posting stupid memes about Hannah's ass. Little do they know how had it affected Hannah in the series and moreover, it was one of the reason.
Because what we joke, what we talk all get converted into actions. One day, we will find ourselves in the same position stretching our hands towards groping women without consent.
The thing I want to highlight is that how we have grown to be insensitive.I deduce that to ridicule people of things that are sensitive to them not only shows one's flawed character but also the cold that's inside their soul.
The worst thing is that people generally and intentionally bring up issues that they are aware are sensitive to you. Also, it is in trend that other people around you to take those issues as shield to protect themselves from people exploiting their sensitive areas.
I have no slightest intention on why people think making jokes about sex, gender, sexual orientation, race and disabilities are perfectly normal and they could now boast them as meme lord, but I am actually very sad for the sadism that's sprouting.
Why do people make fun of people that are less privileged? Why do we have to bring up those topics that we know has the ability to hurt? What is the point of being born privileged to being able to travel around the globe but not able to tolerate and understand someone's views?
The lot which has witnesses people around being insensitive to them are actually ready for the insults that get fouler, but when it comes from the people they call 'friend,' it's disheartening.
In this all, I can't help but wonder: if someone picks up on the issues that in the past have driven you to contemplate self harm, can you call them your friend?
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Non-Fiction..and I was different. "He is weird," said my seniors, tone redolent with mockery. And nicknames began. I have now lost count of the names. There are many, and it reached my home. My single mother was worried about who I was going to be. Though...
