Not So Secret Journal

We seem to be raising a generation of snowflakes, that seem to be offended by EVERYTHING. Every time I open Insta or Facebook, I’m not cool enough to have TikTok, there seems to be someone and when I say someone, I mean a little snowflake, who is part of this whole cancel culture.

Last week someone started a trend, using hashtags and everything, trying to cancel Eminem.  Seriously not even Eminem can cancel Eminem, he’s a legend (to some extent), why did they want him cancelled? by the way that sounds like you’re a part of the mafia and want to wipe him off the face of the earth.

Now apparently, some little snow babies are offended by his lyrics. Now bear with me on this one as they seemed to have stopped handing out the common-sense pills in high school, there’s this really cool thing you can do when you don’t like something, I’m calling it scroll on by, no one is holding you to ransom, no one is saying you have to listen to his music, don’t like his lyrics, turn over the radio station, skip the song on SoundCloud (if you’ve got premium) or just block the songs on Spotify.  I honestly can’t listen to so called cool rap because every other word is the “N” word, but you don’t hear me writing to Polo G or LIL Tjay asking them to tone it down, I just don’t listen.

Its actually such an easy thing to do, and you kids are always telling us dinosaurs, about how we are crap with technology, but were not the ones that are offended. (well unless your name is Karen, but they’re a different breed)

Today I actually saw something that made me feel a bit sad for the next generation and hear me out on this one, this whole cancel culture is getting a bit out of hand, because someone has actually suggested that Walt Disney change a scene in the 1937 edition of Snow white, and no its not because she has all the animals and dwarfs working for her, but because the prince kisses her without her consent.

Firstly, the film is 87 years old, secondly, it’s a fairy tale, make believe, and not fucking real, and thirdly if you don’t like it don’t fucking watch it.

I hate horror movies; do I sit and ask for them all to be cancelled? No, I just don’t fucking watch them. I also have a dislike for certain football teams, so should I be getting them cancelled from the premier league.

I have 2 teenagers and 2 very grown-up kids; I’ve always insisted on them having a good dose of common sense and told them that if they’re offended by anything then that’s on them and not on the thing that’s offended them.

It’s like this whole culture of kids and younger adults that have this huge chip on their shoulders and insist on being offended and entitled, I actually don’t care what you want to call yourself or how you see yourself, if you want to identify as a penguin then knock yourself out, just stop, and I mean this please stop being a knob head about it.

I can deal with most things at the grand age of 48, but knobheads I can’t tolerate, I have an allergy to them, except the doctors won’t give me an EpiPen for this allergy.

I mean come on, what’s next? Cancelling Mary Poppins, because of health and safety reasons, when she takes Jane and Michael on to the roof to dance around with the chimney sweeps, or hey let’s cancel Haribo Tangfastic’s because it looks like your 5-year-old is tea bagging the fizzy cherry sweets. David Attenborough had better watch out they will be asking did he get the animals consent to film them in their natural habitat.

If you weren’t offended before, I know you are now.

Now this is something that they’re going to be offended by, and I’m so ready to take on a whole generation of little snowflakes who think that they invented being offended.

Newsflash, you didn’t!

Being offended has been around for YEAR’S, but thankfully for us we didn’t have social media, back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth (I’m not that old, but you could well see the caveman being offended over shit)

If you were offended in the 80’s and early 90’s you had to call up the radio station that had the “complaint” section, it was for about an hour on an afternoon on one of the oldies radio stations. 

If you were livid, one step up from being offended, then you’d step up your offended ’ness (I know that’s not a word dumbass, bet your offended now though aren’t you, again) and you would write to your local paper and they would put your offended complaint in their complaints column.

People just need to learn to scroll on by, if your offended by a person in the street walk on by and if you’re offended because you’re entitled and your name isn’t Karen I’d get yourself to the Drs for a good old dose of common sense.

Apparently, I offend people because I’m fat, I offend people because I swear and apparently, I offend people because I identify as a human with common sense, my answer will always be fuck off and keep fucking off until you can go no further.

You see the world is a magical place full of people waiting to be offended by something and today here I am.

There’s a quote I want to leave with you and it goes “The more easily you get offended, the less intelligent you actually are.”

Can we now please cancel this whole cancel culture. It just isn’t cool.