Because trying not to offend people is setting yourself up for failure.

Listen here, to all those who still strive to be entirely inoffensive, to those who feel guilt every time someone says their feelings got hurt, who suffers with everyone for everything: it seriously doesn’t matter that much.

Fuck them.

Seriously, though, people will get offended. You can try warning them. You can try being all subtle about it.

But they will still be unprepared. You see, people are offended by anything.

Anything at all. And the more you give in and pander to their offense, the more you wind up being their bitch. At first it’s cool. Don’t call someone a faggot if it genuinely hurts them. Don’t remind someone of their dead mother. But then it gets stupid. Don’t say anything about that time they snorted makeup or mention their previous name under any circumstance! And…