How not to insult people

If the only bad thing you have to say about someone is that they wear a skullcap or that they enjoy One Direction, chances are they’re probably a very good person.

Good day, internetians (that should so be a word). Sorry about the lull, although I'm sure none of you care.

Today I’m going to talk about something I’m sick and tired of, because, you know, that’s not what most people talk about in articles all the time. Recently a friend said something that really resonated with me: “If I want to insult someone, I insult them, not their sexuality”. This made me think. This is the way in which all people should be insulted.

Of course I’m a very anti-hate person, and I try to stop it wherever I find it. But there are those people who you just have to “criticise” sometimes, mostly because they’re being a bully, or a moron, or a serial killer, and their reign of terror must come to an end.

In the case where you absolutely must insult somebody, use all the profanity you want. Just don’t pick on parts of them that they can’t control or that aren’t bad, like the demographic they belong to, like a gender, a race, a culture, a fashion, a body type, a sexuality or a fandom (even one as cringeworthy as that of the Twihards). If the only bad thing you have to say about someone is that they wear a skullcap or that they enjoy One Direction, chances are they’re probably a very good person. If they aren’t a good person, point out things about them that are actually bad like, say, that they are a narrow-minded idiot who only judges people by what they believe or what they love.

I’ll try to wrap this post up soon. But please, for the love of whatever god/s you worship or nonexistence thereof, if you dislike somebody, ask yourself why, and if it is for one of the seven-or-more reasons in that last paragraph, I think you need to figure out who deserves an insult in this situation.

Or, even better, you could complement them instead. You’re all beautiful, by the way.

Considering every cowardly insult hurled at me on the anonymous question site Ask.fm had something to do with me being gay, I thought I might as well address this head-on, and I know that millions of people are in this situation. I know that so many people in the world have to constantly suffer being insulted for stupid little things they can’t control or that make them happy. Don’t starve yourself just because someone called you ugly. Don’t stop enjoying country music because a friend called it lame. Do I need any more examples?

Bitch about someone because of how they put others down for this type of thing, or because they do some crazy horrible stuff like cannibalism that is considered horrible by everyone.

All of you, stay calm and reduce harm. And I love you especially, Person Who Has Read All The Way Down To Here.