Dear Miss Manners,
If someone makes a vulgar comment to one person in a private conversation, and that conversation is subsequently betrayed to the public for money, does this convey a lifetime sentence on the commenter?
Once an apology is made by the commenter for a private statement made 10 or 15 years ago in the context of a private locker room banter session, is there nonetheless a lifetime of social ostracism to be endured?
Is it proper retaliation for those outraged by vulgarity to practice even greater vulgarity publicly and in forms such as wearing genitalia on ones head and shoving wet menstrual pads into the mouths of bystanders? What pray tell is proper etiquette?
Does social financial and other forms of ostracism and revenge also extend to the family members of the commenter for “ standing by him” ( please define the alternative ) and for how many generations is it proper etiquette to ostracize and try to ruin them? May the preschool of the commenters grandchild be targeted?
The progressive left is writing new etiquette rules here so we seek your gentle opinion.
Sincerely
Brilliant! If that’s not the post of the day, I don’t know what would be.