By borisheir on Skatehive
Introduction Does the title question “offend” you? Does it “trigger” feelings of outrage? Do you instantly assume it was asked as an “attack”, a “put-down” or an “insult”? Does the question somehow imply that you are “damaged goods”? Let’s take a moment to examine your response. What would be your response if I posed the question, “Are you a fraznorf”? Or, worse yet, how would you respond if I asserted that “You are a fraznorf”? Would you feel insulted? Maybe I was offering you a compliment. You don’t know and, for the moment at least, you don’t care. At worst you might feel curious about what the word “fraznorf” means. Similarly, would you be offended if I asserted or suggested that you are a “chair”, a “table”, or a coffee-pot? Of course not...but why not? I suspect the reason is that you know with absolute confidence that you are not any of those things. So why might the question, “are you damaged goods” offend you – as does the suggestion that the phrase might apply to you? Do you