Christine Hoff Summers said we’re teaching them to think pathologically, constantly looking for offense and becoming irrationally outraged at minor mistakes, as well as making people paranoid to say or do anything for fear of setting off similarly over-reacting people.
No grace for mistakes, no tolerance for those who use adjectives you think are too precise in description, and social permission to bully others based on the power of the outrage you can muster.
This means the thinnest skin, most explosive tempered person is given not only permission for outbursts but moral gravitas, as well.
And anyone who can put on a performance can bully everyone else for harmless word choices, liking an author who doesn’t fit some every changing standards list or not agreeing absolutely with the more privileged person’s claims, even when it is utterly irrational.
Exactly. I have people in my family like that (take offense at every little thing). Everyone avoids them as much as possible, and we notice they don’t have m/any friends and have a hard time holding down a job.
There is no reason to coddle such people. Coddling is how they got like that in the first place in most cases.