Salient Words Against Humanity
Combined words are used in the society to communicate. Words matter, and more often than not, they hurt and offend people. It can be in many forms; disguised as jokes, indirect expression of cunning, or accidentally uttered in the stimulation of the conversation. It's not always intentional, regardless, our words are our responsibility so we should always be aware of the things we say.
"That was jus a joke." Most of us used words that are indirect expression. We joke about a person and that's alright, except when it starts to insult the person you're making fun of. Sometimes, we get so addicted by the laughs and touch quickly on the back, we get from a simple joke that our sensitivity switch gets turned off.
Never mind that boy's feeling. I'm gonna make my friends laugh. Then sabihin nila "hey, nice shirt! Is that your mom's?" You think to yourself of how uncreative and lame that joke is, but hey they laughed, so it's okay. And when the boy you just joked about answers negatively, you start feel offended and upset. As well and say it's just a joke.
Never mind you hurt that one guy, right? You made many laugh? But this isn't a game that you can erase your mistakes or restart. The excuse of things coming off a joke has become a goes to alibi for us to escape accountability for the things we say. It isn't always intentional. But more often than not, this is how the line between bullying and joking gets blurred.
Always think before you speak. What you say, especially when it's a joke and you feel yourself a little hesitant to say it, you should run it over in your head a few more times before actually telling the joke. The laugh of many isn't worth the tears of someone. There are other harmless jokes like "knock knock" jokes and many others that don't involve insulting or harming a person. Because if you're being mean just to be funny, then you're not funny at all.
Regards ko, Migo/Miga. This isn't to say that we shouldn't send our regards to people, but this phrase has been cast off for catcalling. It is not a pronouncement that needs concrete evidence. Girls and boys alike have experienced it. The phrase fills the open roads and streets as though it were a serenade to people they find attractive. It's a compliment, they say. But compliments are supposed to make you feel good. Contrary to that knowledge, catcalling or jeering makes the person in a receiving end scared. Find a girl or boy attractive? Approach him or her nicely. There are alot of ways to communicate your attraction for someone, jeering has never on of them.
He's handsome, but He's Gay, this one is a little different from the second phrase. This involves the believe that if you're part of the LGBT community, you're wasted potential. But that is not true, not even a bit. Society make us believe that if you're a gay you decrease your chances on becoming successful because of being too different and that is obviously not true.
The people who say this don't really mean any harm, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't cause it. Success is not anchored on one's gender. When we say these things, not only do we hurt them but we belittle their abilities.
People are more that just their gender and that shouldn't be a classification of us. I'm pretty sure you'd hate hearing people say, "yeah she's smart but she's a girl." Being a girl doesn't stop you from doing amazing things. Being a gay doesn't as well. A change in perspective isn't always so bad. If you used to think that being gay is a weakness, change that. Why should being a gay be a weakness? If anything, isn't it empowering?
He/She's positive but negative. Are you confuse? Well, the "but" in the sentences is usually used to contradict. More often, in the context of describing a person, it is to refute a positive trait with a trait they seem negative. For example, "Gwapa Siya, pero bati mo suwat" She's pretty, but she doesn't know how to write properly. The trouble with this is it invalidates that one positive trait of the person being described.
If she's pretty why can't she be recognized for her being pretty? What does the wonders of writing skills have to do with her beauty? It's saying that something is good but it will never be good enough, and that's forcing ridiculous standards down our throats that are hard to achieve or maintain for a number of factors. She doesn't know how to write properly? Well, not everyone gets a shot at quality education.
Final thoughts
Many words can used not to offend other people. Well, if we don't like the person we meet we just only respect them genuinely, like we shouldn't bestow a jokes that formulate an argument. For me, I tend to make a joke if I know the person for how many years. Majority of the people I meet, they'll say that I'm a silent boy, know me profoundly,
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Words are powerful. Any words that we spit can harm someone. So we should be careful what we say.