Understanding "Passive aggressive behavior"?

[BrokenQuill92]

I'm about as passive aggressive as they come. Not being physically strong when someone gets my back up I tend to lash out with words. Or I make non-verbal points when I've had enough of an action I find offensive.

When someone uses a micro aggressive behavior or stereotype towards me to the point I'm pissed I'll often put on a very thick southern accent "Yes'um! Fo' sho I's gon git right awn dat!"

Secondly I may "accidentally" knock down someone who won't leave me alone. Poor silly blind me how could I have ever managed without my sighted people.

And my favorite, dipping the cat in paint and letting it walk all over. It usually fixes a messy roomie quickly.

[Edwardo Piet]

Yeah I always disliked people who weren't 100% genuine non-stop all the time.....

(lol).

So anyway that's interesting... pretending to do things by "accident" AKA "accidentally on purpose" is passive aggressive too?

See what I mean how fucking broad is this.

P.S. So I take it here are a lot of passive aggressive Soccer players then lol

[brewer]

And don't forget to include sarcasm. One of the best "joking" ways to use PA. But of course, I'm sure that you're already a master sarcaster. Why would I think anything less.

[Edwardo Piet]

Oh don't be fucking ridiculous I DESPISE sarcasm and all its forms it is just a waste of fucking time I mean what the fuck is funny about saying the opposite of what you mean in an amusing way I mean it's never amusing ever.

Sarcasm sucks and I despise Blackadder it's a shit comedy and most definitely not fucking awesome. For fucks sake.

[brewer]

And I thought it would take for fucking ever for you to get it. Will wonders never cease?

[Edwardo Piet]

Yeah that wasn't just amusing it was the funniest post ever to hit these forums...good job....

[brewer]

I've just been out sarcasted. I know when to cave!

[Edwardo Piet]

Well you see.... what you should have done is...

https://vimeo.com/70245926

[Violet]

Passive aggression... is leaving a sticky note that tells you to pick the towel off the floor, or to leave the toilet seat up, or to subtlety hint at how furious you are behind a fakey sarcastic smile.

passive-aggressive
adjective
of or denoting a type of behavior or personality characterized by indirect resistance to the demands of others and an avoidance of direct confrontation, as in procrastinating, pouting, or misplacing important materials.

This is actually passive aggression^

For example... if you drive me crazy by leaving your 'dental floss picks' wherever the fuck you set them (say the kitchen table, counters, etc)... I very much may put those dental floss picks in your fucking bed, without saying a fucking word (if this has been a problem for long enough, and I've already told you how fucking gross it is). Or in your shoes.

Or, if you continue dropping your clothes on the floor outside of your room, when you have a laundry basket, and I've asked you to put said things in your laundry basket (or at least in your room)? I very well may 'accidentally' drop really disgusting things on your clothes (say a dead mouse that I find), and reason with you when you complain, 'that's really really gross, but to be fair, leaving your dirty clothes on the floor is gross enough as it is... and if you put your dirty clothes in the laundry: this couldn't happen.

^ This ^ is what real passive aggression looks like. Some people don't even ask you directly first... avoiding 'confrontation' by leaving you little notices around the house, or by doing crap like i outline above as their baseline.

Those people... are 'passive aggressive'.

[Edwardo Piet]

Thank you violet that was very helpful.

So it's a kind of disingenuous, deceptive covert, indirect aggression or act of revenge, etc.