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Why Isn't It Nice To Say Someones Piercings Are YuckyWhy Isn't It Nice To Say Someones Piercings Are Yucky
By Garnet
I am sitting at a pizza parlor next to a middle aged woman, a four year old, and a 17 or 18 year old. The little boy started asking the older boy, "What is that green thing on your tongue?" The older boy, obviously amused, stuck his tongue out showing some kind of piercing that included a ball above and below his tongue. The little boy reacted with disgust, commenting that it was yucky. Everyone laughed as the older by continued to roll around his tongue and thorughly display the device He then went back to his pizza job....
Another older boy, and the mother, then told the boy it wasn't nice to comment like that about the piercings.
Why isn't it nice? The older boy wasn't offended, but even more important, had gotten several piercings, probably just to attract attention.
Is it not nice to comment because someone might feel offended? If someone has no choice over their condition, then we should not make bad comments about this. The little boy could be taught this. But in this situation, the older boy had chosen these outlandish and useless, and possibly dangerous, body modifications, so it is not the same.
How about when people make voluntary decisions to do things that are disgusting to the rest of us? Why should the rest of us be made to feel guilty for our natural revulsion?
Sometimes out of the mouths of babes too young to worry about political correctness come the most natural and true reactions...
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