The Pipsqueak Challenge
I think, more and more, people try to do three things by going all offendypants on Twitter and other social media:
1. Signal that they're members of the tribe that gets offended by those things.
2. Have something to say when they actually have little or nothing of value to say.
3. Feel like they're doing something when they're really just, oh, tweeting something.
I thought of this when I saw Peter Boghossian's challenge on Friday night:
We need a word for: being offended on behalf of someone who's not offended.
— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) October 27, 2017
My entry:
Pantywadded By Proxy. https://t.co/IHu0MqdNfN
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) October 28, 2017
Appreciated this one, too, from Garbage Humanist:
Vicarious Butthurt
— Garbage Humanist (@ClaudeL1979) October 28, 2017
Yours?
I always call them a bigot, because they are never of the same race/sex/orientation of the people they are offended for
lujlp at October 28, 2017 12:48 AM
Surrogate Sorrow.
In others words "SS" because they often act like the SS as well.
There, I went all Godwin's Law as they often do!
charles at October 28, 2017 3:07 AM
Progressive
Wfjag at October 28, 2017 3:18 AM
Well, there's always "vicarious victim," which is at least alliterative.
I like "Surrogate Sorrow!"
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at October 28, 2017 6:50 AM
How about "Munchausen Malcontent?"
That seems like kind of a reach.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at October 28, 2017 6:59 AM
Twisted Knicker Knights
iowaan at October 28, 2017 9:38 AM
Twatwafflery.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at October 28, 2017 10:38 AM
I love the proposals. For the first time, we get a character in a movie (Moana ?) that little girls want to dress up as Polynesian, and these Vicarious Victims want to stop it. It is a pretty good gig, being a spokesman for a group without their permission.
cc at October 28, 2017 11:49 AM
Speaking of people who don't have a leg to stand on...
https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/5b79z4/nm_i_got_a_girl_pregnant_and_she_wanted_to_get_an/
OK, so it could easily be fake. But it could just as easily not be, given that there was a pretty similar fictional example of this attitude well over 30 years ago, by a late, very funny, beloved - and realistic - U.K. novelist. With such writers, scenes like the following don't come out of nowhere.
Here it is, as told by teen boy Adrian:
"... I heard (my father) saying, ’Things are very bad between me and Pauline, and all we are arguing over now is who doesn’t get custody of Adrian’. Surely my father made a mistake. He must have meant who did get custody of me. So the worst has happened, my skin has gone to pot and my parents are splitting up..."
lenona at October 28, 2017 11:57 AM
Trigglypuff.
Lori at October 28, 2017 7:40 PM
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