I was chatting with a colleague yesterday and we somehow ended up on the topic of how she always eats whatever is served (even when she doesn’t like it) when at someone’s house because of the ‘rudeness’ factor. I say this must be a generational thing because everyone who makes this ‘it’s rude not to eat shit, if served to you, when you are a guest’ argument is old and a likely fox-news-watching, misinformed, blissfully ignorant person.
I totally disagree with this concept. From my point of view, who the fuck cares what I personally ingest for dinner? The answer should be nobody, but often it is not. Rather, apparently there are people out there who get offended if they cannot get every person at their table to eat every bit of food prepared. Look, I’m not saying you ask for something special then not eat or try it – that would be rude. But it is not rude to not gobble up every single dish served just because it is there. If a person leaves your table hungry because they personally didn’t like anything served, then guess what – it’s their problem, not yours! Why is this so hard to understand?
It’s possible that people aren’t really getting offended over this sort of thing (I know I wouldn’t be at all offended or really even care in the least if someone didn’t want to eat my dinner). Maybe it’s only that generation who was raised to be ‘polite’ with no thought to whether the actions they ascribe this word to are actually worth worrying about. Maybe it’s just them fearing that they’ll offend someone, when in actuality this is totally false and unfounded.
Who am I kidding… of course there are thousands of babyboomers offended by … well pretty much everything and anything you can think of. They’re somehow offended.
Who cares… this ‘offended by everything’ concept with the older generation is so amusing to me. I really can’t believe the things they care about. This gives me an idea of what to write about tomorrow – stay tuned.
