I consider your remarks highly offensive to me and to those with whom I have been working.
I think fans are so brought up in a culture of rooting for a team since they were kids, ostensibly, and are blind to this idea that people might take offense.
Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.
If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.
The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.
If I feel like you've disrespected me, you might as well just be dead to me.
None is offended but by himselfe.
Insult is in the ear of the listener. Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.
It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions.
