RE: Understanding "Passive aggressive behavior"?
October 12, 2015 at 9:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2015 at 9:22 pm by 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.
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'.
Quote: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'.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
