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You do not know how many times I've told people "I'm a math major" and then they say "I hate math."
Really? Really? Okay, tell me what you love, tell me what makes you happy, tell me what you dedicate time and energy to- guess what, I hate all those things. I hate everything you think is good in the world. I wish everything you love would just die and remove its foul existence from the face of the earth.
Well, not really. I don't actually hate all that stuff, it's just that I'm so angry that I'm trying to come up with something equally offensive to say.
Why is it socially acceptable in American culture to proclaim one's hatred of math and be proud of it? Seriously? Especially right after I say I'm a math major. If you think about this for a fraction of a second you'll see it's unbelievably rude and offensive.
Everyone's entitled to hate stuff, you know, as a basic human right. But we know that in civilized society you don't go around telling people you hate things that are very important to them.
Especially to people you've just met. Geez.
And I've heard this excuse: "oh, they meant it as a compliment, they're trying to say you're way smarter than them." People need to go learn what a compliment is, because you're doing it wrong.
What do you want me to say? How am I supposed to respond- because my reflex response is to find something they like and insult it. I guess the polite thing to do is tell them that's incredibly offensive and makes me very angry, and that it's not okay to say that.
But seriously. How is it this an accepted thing in our culture?