What do we do about the bias that we experience because of the difference in our structures? How do we cope with the less care and attention? Is it okay that we stay quiet and never report the prejudice?
People are designed different. This is what makes people special and lovable. What the world would have been if everyone was a clone of the other? Or did it filter the prejudices that on suffer in life?
I agree that people now-a-days are easily offended and why wouldn't they be? We have embarked on a mission to ridicule everyone: To make fun of everyone's short comings, to be an imbecile, and that's not normal. A joke isn't a joke if it makes people to think about suicide. And suicide or self harming isn't something that is to be mocked about.
Teenagers now-a-days are so exposed to things that aren't healthy. But not every teenager is like this. It's our responsibility to be more ethical and moral than the society we live. The horrors of an immoral world falls upon every single one of us, but that hasn't made every single one of us monsters.
It's our duty to look upon our standards. Jokes should be harmless. If we particularly and intentionally draft a piece that has hurt the feelings of people, it's the basic awareness to empathize, is what we lack. Bullying is already enough in the real world. There are a number of assholes already that has come into our spheres and has messed up many things.
Cyberspaces are where people find solace; where they slid to be in the comforting places; to be in the touch of people who have gone though the same tragedies. It should be free of the people who have never learnt empathy. Slurs about people of different color, sexual orientation are not at all appropriate. If homophobia isn't okay, then gay jokes aren't either. If racism isn't nice, then neither are racist jokes.
Tossing 'You're so gay' like it's what you own won't make one admirable, accepted straight male either. It would, in progressive societies, make you look like a douche bag, and maybe, worse than it. Same is with N-word. Here are the times when we know what actually cultural appropriation is, and why we need to actually learn and respect the cultures when stealing a thing that has a very different story behind it.
There is definitely an expiry date for blaming people, who have ruined your lives with all the insensitive things they have done, but you just can't forget the incidents that have reshaped you, and most of them are for worse.
In this all, I can't help but wonder: have we commenced to lose our sense?
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Stories from A Troubled Boy
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...
