Is it just me or has there been a change lately in "being offended" ? It has always seemed to me that you were offended if someone implied that you had some defect or other. If they said it about someone else, but your own part in the fault wasn't included, you could be very annoyed about it, but you were not offended. That was reserved for a personal slight to you. That is, the offense had been committed against the person offended.
Now people get offended on other people's behalf even when the person referred to doesn't see anything at all to take offence at. Surely it is highly presumptive and interfering to get into a tizz when no insult was meant and none taken? Rather like making someone else's decisions for them - "Does he take sugar?"
Baby Reindeer - anyone watched it?
Alphabetical girls and boys names January 2024