I think you're under the mistaken impression that I like "Judge" (is she really a judge?) Pirro. I was joking about the health care part and if you think people are too thin-skinned, I live with a beautiful, thin blonde woman who thinks she's fat and if you say her dress looks too tight or something like that, it would ruin at least a week of her life. It's not because she's thin skinned. It's because many people are extremely self conscious. I work with kids and they joke about how I walk so slow. I explain to them I have an auto immune disease and they shut up. I'm not offended by it. We're all different.
But it's rude as hell to laugh at me for walking slow even though it doesn't bother me. My point is that we don't all earn descriptive words about our appearance. Make fun of her all you want. Maybe you can sit with the cool kids at lunch if they hear you say something particularly nasty.
Red:
I don't know what you think of Ms. Pirro, but
your "Judge Pirro is crazy" declaration indicates you don't esteem her thoughts and/or her. That's the "alpha to omega" of how I construe your disposition toward her, for you've not, to me, said enough that allows me to think otherwise. Indeed, you've not even said enough to legitimate my using assertive syntax, -- something like "execrate," "revile," "abhor," "detest," "discountenance," "condemn," etc. -- which is why above I used the negating construction, "don't esteem."
My post to which your above quote is a reply merely was a response to your response about my inquiry about whether you thought her having survived cancer gives rise to her craziness. You answered, "No but I wouldn't rule it out." That was all I sought to know.
Judge Pirro is crazy but she also overcame cancer. ...
-- Mustachio
Are you intimating, of her, the latter gives rise to the former?
-- Xelor
No but I wouldn't rule it out.
-- Mustachio
That however wasn't all you cared to share, so, out of respect, I considered the rest of what you shared and remarked upon it.
Blue:
Yes, she once was a judge. She served from 1991 to '93, prior to the establishment of the
NY IJEQC, as an
elected jurist in Westchester County, NY.
I don't know much about her judicial career. I know she has a law degree form
an expensive private law school that isn't highly ranked and that she was on the
law review there.
Tan:
Wait, what? Your wife would, in response to being informed her appearance is less than perfect, become anguished, for a week, no less, because
people are self-conscious? What has people's self-consciousness to do with how she feels about herself? That's completely non-sequitur.
"Honey, your dress fits poorly."
"My life is, for the following week, ruined."
"Why?"
"Because people are self-conscious."
One may somewhat understand had you said because she's self-conscious, but you said she'd have a week of ruined life because people are self-conscious. Are you serious? If you are, show her some care and enroll her in therapy; she's far too "empathetic," and given the nature of the remark you cited as an example, she is regarding inordinately superficial things. You need to help her, and you will need a therapist's guidance/assistance to effectively do so.
I'm sure you wife's a lovely and loving woman, but she's also a mental mess; however, she's your mental mess of a wife, so you need to help that woman gain some self-confidence, a lot of it, actually. A week of "ruin" over a minor observation is just too much...At least, I think so; perhaps you don't....
Teal:
To the points in my post to which your above remarks are a reply, yes, it's rude to laugh at you for walking slowly. It isn't, however, rude to observe and, in turn, say that you walk slowly. It isn't rude because you do walk slowly.
- Rude --> "You walk slowly. Ha, ha, ha."
- You've got a right to be offended.
- Statement of fact, thus not rude --> "You walk slowly."
- You have no right to be offended, but it's possible you dislike being told so. That's a different matter.
Regarding points of fact (as opposed to unfounded assertions) about which, after being told of them, folks yet take umbrage, the comic in the following video fairly well expresses my own stance about their doing so: fine, be offended.
