If the prominent phrase in the 90's was "bling bling" or "gettin' jiggy wit it," it's completely undeniable that the phrase of the 2000's is "You're hating." Any time someone throws shade at a person who's doing his or her thing, they are automatically branded with the moniker of "hater," a person who seemingly has nothing better to do but to criticize a person who is simply on the come-up.
Unfortunately it's not that simple. The "hate" movement, at least for me, is so overplayed to the point where anyone who is well-loved is assumed to be protected from any form of reproach and evaluation. It's ridiculous.
If someone does something wrong, controversial, questionable, ignorant, and/or stupid, is it not the obligation, nay, responsibility of the surrounding public to check that person, guide him or her, and make sure he or she is at least cognizant of the bullshit behaviors at hand and the inherent issues therein? How did it become taboo to offer sincere, even constructive, criticism meant to point out flaws and ameliorate the human?
Evaluation cannot be chalked up to mere "hating," to assumptions that some people have nothing else better to do than to offer what you perceive as misguided and unfounded opinions of you. Please know that you seriously are not that important to anyone who does not know you. It's mere criticism; you're not absolved of it.
Everyone is chock-full of opinions. You can either listen to them and engage said opinion-holder in conversation, debate, and discussion, or you can ignore it completely. But don't denounce or devalue the importance of opinion and true criticism to mere "hating" because your ego suffuses common sense and self-reproving. It diminishes the importance of the conversation of bettering ourselves and others.
In other words, get over it! Engage in criticism instead of mere discarding and shrugging it off.
My hate to the supposed "hatee"?
An unprecedented SEVEN slaps!
Unfortunately it's not that simple. The "hate" movement, at least for me, is so overplayed to the point where anyone who is well-loved is assumed to be protected from any form of reproach and evaluation. It's ridiculous.
If someone does something wrong, controversial, questionable, ignorant, and/or stupid, is it not the obligation, nay, responsibility of the surrounding public to check that person, guide him or her, and make sure he or she is at least cognizant of the bullshit behaviors at hand and the inherent issues therein? How did it become taboo to offer sincere, even constructive, criticism meant to point out flaws and ameliorate the human?
Evaluation cannot be chalked up to mere "hating," to assumptions that some people have nothing else better to do than to offer what you perceive as misguided and unfounded opinions of you. Please know that you seriously are not that important to anyone who does not know you. It's mere criticism; you're not absolved of it.
Everyone is chock-full of opinions. You can either listen to them and engage said opinion-holder in conversation, debate, and discussion, or you can ignore it completely. But don't denounce or devalue the importance of opinion and true criticism to mere "hating" because your ego suffuses common sense and self-reproving. It diminishes the importance of the conversation of bettering ourselves and others.
In other words, get over it! Engage in criticism instead of mere discarding and shrugging it off.
My hate to the supposed "hatee"?
An unprecedented SEVEN slaps!
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