People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
People tend to say, 'You're not as fat or as ugly as I expected.' I never know how to reply. It's a bit of a slap, but they don't mean it, I'm sure.
If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.
How easy it is to say the wrong thing! How easy it is not to recognize one has said the wrong thing!
Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.
My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.
I remember being really hurt by a relative of a good friend of mine when I mentioned that someone was a great wrestler - she said, 'What do you mean? How can you be great at wrestling?' I stopped them and said, 'Do you think that what I do takes no talent whatsoever?' She realized how hurtful those words were.
You're in front of an audience and thinking off the top of your head - you're going to say things that offend people sometimes. Sometimes I'll be driving home, and I'll be like, 'Oh, crap, I shouldn't have said that.'
I'm a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.
One of my faults is a big mouth. I tend to say the wrong thing without meaning to.
Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.
Difficulty empathising translates into a whole set of hurdles. You might be last person to get the point of a joke, which can leave you feeling like an outsider. You might end up saying something that another person finds hurtful or offensive, when that was the last thing you intended.
I apologize that I made an attempt to be funny and edgy… and it didn't work.
Sometimes people can be offensive and not even realize it.
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray
I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.
The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else.
