Triggered: Protecting your feelings from the mean things the world will say.

The following contains:
- Profanity
- Scathing social commentary
- A lack a damn to give about the feelings of others
- Political incorrectness
- Brutal mockery of things and people I find to be utterly stupid
- Copious amounts of sarcasm

What the hell is it with this month?! I'm finding just one thing after another that burns my ass. I mean seriously, it's like I bought a bull, that doesn't want to stop shitting.

So what the fuck crawled up my ass this time? This insidious piece of software.

Reword has the unique potential to change online behavior by stopping insults before they are posted, Chris Tanti, CEO of headspace, said in a news release. It will not interfere with anything you do online unless you begin to use inflammatory language. 

 The tool will flag potentially hurtful comments by crossing them out with a red line and encouraging users to reword. The technology works similarly to spellcheck, by recognizing words and phrases that are considered unkind.

Seriously. this is fucking stupid and Chris Tanti has his head so far up his ass that the smell of his bad morning breath is indistinguishable from his farts. I can just imagine what this fucking sentence would look like if I had this dogshit program running on my computer while I wrote all this out.

You know, when I was a kid, we had this little jingle. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." That was in the '80s and the '90s when we didn't have parents hovering behind us, coddling us 24/7. Back then we were taught that the world wasn't always nice and that we would just have to deal with it, in one way or another. As the military motto goes, "Adapt. Improvise. Overcome." that's how you deal with the world not by running off to a safe space and curing up in a fetal position and crying for an hour.

But hey you might be saying "Salty Manx, at least they're trying to do something about the problem!"

"We gon stop 'da bullyin'!"

Here's the thing, I've been doing this whole internet thing since... oh I don't know... 1998 at least. So I could be considered something of an expert on behavior of people on the internet. The premise of this program is that kids act like little shits on the internet because they don't know any better. As opposed to acting in a manner that they know will get an emotional reaction and getting said emotional reaction to laugh at.

The developers of this circle-jerk don't understand the mentality of an internet troll. They say shit because they know, it will hurt someone else, and that there isn't a whole much that other person can do, regardless of who they are. Bullies will bully other people, not because they don't understand that it hurts someone, but precisely because they know it hurts someone and get on a power trip over it. Having program that keeps on telling them that they're not being nice, other than irritating them, will only egg them on even more. If someone is intentionally acting like an asshole, then constantly telling someone they're not being nice, will only entourage them.

Bullies and internet trolls know what they're doing is messed up, the thing is, they don't give a shit. This will ultimately accomplish little if anything. This whole thing also stinks of lazy parenting and lazy educating. It's not a computer program's job to teach your kids these things. It also provides another excuse for parents to no monitor their kid's internet usage.

I had a lot of internal conflicts about becoming a bully. My folks always told me to do unto others at they would do to you. But then I remembered... I was stronger than most people, so they can't do unto my anything! - Dolph

Now I'm willing to bet that someone of you are mentally accusing me of bullying because of my scathing, and profanity laced commentary, but guess what?  I don't care. I don't just don't have the patience to candy coat things for something that's fucking stupid. It's a futile gesture, as Ron White said, "you can't fix stupid." And this is stupid as all hell.

You know what else this bullshit is? This is kind of Orwellian social engineering that Soviet and Chinese/Korean Communist totalitarian wet dreams are made out of. Think about it for a second, they want this software installed at school and work place computers. They want all social media sites to have this software integrated in. Say they do get their way, then who gets to determine what acceptable speech is? If you can limit words, then you can limit thought, because then you limit how ideas can be conceptualized.

And what of dissenting speech, that gets restricted on online outlets because it might hurt someone's feelings? Should feelings be what determines acceptable speech? I think I've made it quite clear that I don't flying rocket powered fuck about whether or not what I have to say in the manner in which I say it hurts anyone's feelings. Everyone is certainly free to stop reading this if they don't like what I have to say. But if the creators of Reword had their way and their Ingsoc-esque (or should it be "Aussoc"?) software was applied to Blogger, this blog would largely only be about video game reviews.

This is nothing else, but more regressive leftist PC horse shit. The kind of shit where "everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic..." It's the kind of crap that restricts freedom of expression all for the sake of protecting someone's coddled and overly sensitive feelings. This won't stop bullying because bullies just don't care anyway. Once kids realize that there's no real consequence for ignoring the red line and popup box, it all becomes a moot point.

But probably the biggest problem I have with this, is that it fosters a weakness of character. It's further coddling of children from what the world is. If they don't learn how to deal with bullies because they've been shielded from them and placed into helicopter protected bubble, then how are they going to deal with assholes out in the adult world. This is why we end up with these weak, pathetic, fragile special snowflakes. I mean seriously, look at this, this isn't an adult. This isn't a person equipped with the tools needed to survive and thrive in the adult world. This is a child, this is a child trapped in an adult's body. Are these people serious? In 2016 words hurt now? A fucking email of all things can now hurt your feelings so bad that it fucks your life up? Fuck how old are you? 18 or 8?!

These people are fucking weak. They are fucking pathetic, They are fucking children that need to go back home because they're just not ready for the real world. These people will get their shit completely and utterly fucked up by a world that doesn't care about their feelings, and certainly doesn't care if they feel safe. They need to go watch Rocky Balboa or something.

This is what this kind of shit does, this kind of shit prevents people from growing up. Here's the thing, Rocky's absolutely right about the world, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. If winning, or just making it, is about how hard you get get hit and keep going, well just how hard of a hit can you take when mere words reduce you to a shrieking mess?

I'm know it kind of seems like I'm going off on a tangent but all these things are related. You take programs like Reword that try to shield kids from the world, and you get kids that grow up to be people that can't handle the meanness the world will throw at you. They grow up into adult-children where everything is a "micro-aggression" because it doesn't 100% conform to their expectations, and they run off to the nearest authority figure to make it stop... just like how a child would.

Am I encouraging bullying? Fuck no, of course not. All I'm saying is that it's a part of growing up and kids should be taught how to deal with a bully, rather than being shielded from them.