(December 29, 2013 at 9:35 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: Who's to say for sure? Perhaps she considers it insensitive of people who don't point it out. I have extremely giant hands, and I'm never offended when someone insensitively says "Wow, damn, look at those massive lunch hooks". Our species is becoming too damned thin-skinned.
Privately informing of such is the best way to assist people with wardrobe malfunctions, big mistakes they've made, and many other things. Reacting with shock, alarm, loud noise, and the like causes panic, it changes relatively small things into 'the center of attention', and it is the most likely to cause the 'victim'/'focus' of said pandemonium stress, shame, and even fear.
Still, most common insults aren't worth the breath behind them, and to ignore a nonmattering statement is among the better ways to stymie their stride. Particularly if the way one provides said ignorance adequately signals that the aggressor does not actually exist
/lesson
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