Posted by Racer on April 4, 2006, at 21:55:39
In reply to How Many of you would thinkit funny and some punch, posted by Phillipa on April 4, 2006, at 21:38:22
> If you were at a party and someone told you to put your head in a toilet would take it seriously and either want to or would laugh or would get angry and want to punch them out? Me laughter is the best healer of all. Love Phillipa
Phillipa, it's great that you can think of it that way, and expect that sort of reaction should you ever find yourself in that situation.
It's unrealistic and rather unfair to assume that anyone else shares that belief. For a lot of people, hearing that would be pretty devastating, and that needs to be taken into account. If my husband ever said anything like that to me, I would be very, very angry with him, as well as hurt. And I would never dream of saying anything remotely like that him.
But let's shift the focus back where it belongs: it's not whether or not someone should be hurt by the phrase Matt used. Let's not try to debate whether someone "should" find what he wrote funny. I think you'll agree that Matt didn't mean it to be funny -- he was hurting, and he lost his temper and lashed at. That is understandable.
But it's still not OK.
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