# Name anything that offends you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-anything-that-offends-you/758187 "2016-06-23T22:12:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-anything-that-offends-you/758187/101 "2016-06-29T08:14:05Z")
Well, you do have a point. I guess there are two kinds of offensive (at least): things that offend you personally i.e. things at which you take umbrage, and behaviors that we consider offensive, in the abstract. For instance, I think most of us could agree that dropping garbage where you stand is offensive. (especially when where you stand is a few feet from a garbage can.) Saying racist or sexist or just generally ugly things to people is offensive – in a general, abstract way that I figure most people would agree with. Offensive behavior usually involves disregarding the basic rules of conduct that we all feel like we had down in kindergarten. And I agree that we have probably fuzzied up the boundaries between “offensive” and “annoying.” But my first response to the OP – about class attitudes – is something that really does offend me, personally. There aren’t very many things that I get that kind of offended about. Somehow it’s just a giant button for me when people assume, because of what they perceive to be my “class” (lower socio-economic status) that I am surely less intelligent, less wholesome, or less altruistic than they are. In fact, it occurs to me that I rant about this a lot here. Must have been that sneetch book when I was little. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-anything-that-offends-you/758187/102 "2016-06-29T13:56:03Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Seriously?.. I get offended when people take me seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-anything-that-offends-you/758187/103 "2016-06-29T14:42:55Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > _Mon Dieu!_ Are you talking about people who can leave their kiosks?! > Even at street fairs around here, booth-havers don’t give you a hard time. They just stand and smile and look artistic. Yes. Around here it’s the Dead Sea Lotion, or something to do with your nails. That’s how they start their opening: Ma’am! Do you do your own nails? They wander in an arc around their kiosk, harassing people. Thankfully they don’t touch you! > [@teela\_brown](#): > > “Hey, **teela** , whaddya think of this little shit you work for?” > > “Hey, **teela** , how about this rice bucket boss you got?” (boss is Asian) > > “Hey, **teela** , can you believe this guy actually married a good-looking woman?” Um, a straight up racist comment like that would certainly offend me. Specially since I married an man of Asian descent. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-anything-that-offends-you/758187/104 "2016-06-29T21:38:50Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Um, a straight up racist comment like that would certainly offend me. Specially since I married an man of Asian descent. Yeah, I eventually complained about him to HR after some further offensive stupidity on his part. He knocked it off after awhile and now avoids my desk. Thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-anything-that-offends-you/758187/105 "2016-06-30T05:41:47Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Seriously? You people find these things _offensive_? Those shysters known as Scientologists, weaseling tax-free status by somehow getting themselves established as a religion, while ruining the lives of countless people, I find maybe just a little offensive. The Nuge beakin off can also offend me sometimes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-anything-that-offends-you/758187.md?page=5)