I went to the @barge account to find your "eyes" post and got completely sidetracked! 🤣
This cancel culture is something that been on my mind of late and you've pulled up a great example right here. Much of the issue seems to come from perspectives which lead to misunderstanding. Is something an insult if you aren't even aware it's an insult? How may innocuous words will we have to change, because the meaning of it has been changed to an insult in someone's mind? A recent discussion is happening on a friend's Facebook page around whether we should call "breasts" "chests" in order to be more inclusive. If a word that innocuous can cause offense, where does this end? Perhaps we should abolish language altogether.
...and I was logged into the wrong account...
LOL, I had kinda gatered that it was you behind the HSI comment. Cool that you got sidetracked here :)
Right! And what of the intention where no insult was intended? Insult in the eye of the 'insulted'!
Or reclaim it for ourselves at an individual level?!