I've noticed a sort of nascent movement amongst the tumblrati (and other groups) agitating for what I can only think of as "the right to not be offended."
Does this concept fit into that category? I have a hard time telling, perhaps because I was raised a few generations ago when coddling kids was considered to be leaving them ill-prepared for the real world - a sort of "behold, I send you out as sheep amongst the wolves" theory of human interaction.
I feel like there's an aim to produce a society of sensitive sheep. Maybe I'm misreading things, again, I'm a relic. I'm honestly curious what the goal is, though.
Children subject each other to behaviours that would see them sacked or even arrested if it happen when they were adults in a workplace.
This is not about "stop saying things that offend me"; this is about things that you would see as pyschogical torture if they happened to you.
Perhaps there's a niche in the market for "Torment as a service" - you sign up and confirm, and then you get a month of the kind of abuse suffered by people. There are varying levels of abuse on offer.
The game does fail to acknowledge one thing: most harm suffered by children happens in the home, usually from siblings. This is true even if we only include activity that could be considered as "abuse" (physical, sexual, or emotional) by child protection social workers.
The scariest thing to a child is likely to be a member of that child's family.
Bullying and/or emotional manipulation is different from being overly sensitive. Being overly sensitive is about being easily offended when the other party does not intend any offence, while emotional manipulation and bullying is more of a dysfunction on the part of the bully, than it is a dysfunction for the person being bullied for not having thick enough skin to simply take it in stride. Get the picture?
Does this concept fit into that category? I have a hard time telling, perhaps because I was raised a few generations ago when coddling kids was considered to be leaving them ill-prepared for the real world - a sort of "behold, I send you out as sheep amongst the wolves" theory of human interaction.
I feel like there's an aim to produce a society of sensitive sheep. Maybe I'm misreading things, again, I'm a relic. I'm honestly curious what the goal is, though.