(March 16, 2018 at 12:20 am)MysticKnight Wrote: If anyone makes a mental health joke, they will be on my ignore.
Mentioning doctors, etc, subtly to mock the issue of my mental health, and I am not going to debate semantics.
My insanity has been my biggest evil, yet overcoming to many degrees and coping with it has been my greatest virtue.
Anyone makes any joke belittling any type of mental illness, will be on my ignore.
If you don't care, go ahead, do it. But you will be on my ignore, I guarantee that.
Why do you assume that any joke about mental health is somehow an attack on people with mental health issues? I joke about a lot of things, and literally never does it mean that I have ill-will towards the subject of my joke.
This is something Ricky Gervais talks about a lot and I respect him for it. I think by instantly reacting to some topics with offense, without any context of why it would or would not be offensive, you force people to be dishonest when they don't have any reason to be, and you entrench the stigma around the topic.
For example, this comment:
(March 16, 2018 at 6:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Two insane people walk into a bar to buy round trip tickets to Fiji.
Why is this offensive? Are we pretending that mental illness isn't a thing, or are you just knee-jerk reacting to a single word you heard?
