to think it's safe to say that there are a group of people that could be termed the 'Professionally offended'

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Listening to people in RL reading threads online, reading the newspaper, watching the tv it seems there are a group of people who see it as their purpose in life to just be offended by, well, everything!!

AIBU to wonder where these 'professional offence takers' came from or have they always been lurking in the background?

Yes limited rotten spoilsports challenging their right to be rude!

The OP is talking about people defending disablism.
She is talking about people like the 'beef tortilla' thread, who seem to look for stuff to be offended by.

I do come across a lot of people getting their knickers in a twist over what to me are very insignificant things.
Usually mothers of small babies, mothers fussing over minutia at school, whinging about MILs. That sort of thing.
I tend to leave them to it unless I'm feeling like being a PITA.
But using 'Professionally Offended' is usually an insult to people whom the accuser feels is taking the higher moral ground when they don't see the need.

Oh, if you are talking of AIBU....I think people generally come here for a fight, don't they?

I thought the tortilla thread was a joke.

Dog. The OP isn't talking about...

Wtf? I don't know where dog came from. :)

Dogs get everywhere, ought to be on a leash.

cuntflap I am offended that beef tortilla reminds you of fanny, my fanny is nothing like a beef tortilla

Takes offence, slams door on way out

fallen :)

Sorry was off making cake with the little people for the teachers for tomorrow (thing with being brassic, cake will have to do as an end of term gift!)

Anyway yes what was I talking about, yes people who will take offense at EVERYTHING like someone poking their head in your pram to have a look at your new baby and saying "oh how lovely congratulations" and seeing it as a sleight on your baby's appearance as happened at the school for one example.

Fucking dogs...

Yes. There are people who get offended by minor things. There are very uptight people and those who have no sense of humour. Loads of them. Loads.

We need a new name for them though because professionally offended is now used by the 'i'm not racist but..', 'i speak as I find', 'pc gorn mad' arses.

I tend to use 'snarky fuckers'.

I hate the term professionally offended. It is always used to dismiss the views of others.
Like pc gone mad
Pulling the race card
Chip on your shoulder

Ironically it tends to be used by people taking offence at others taking offence.

One persons risqué witticism is going to be another's rape joke

I was once accused of 'depicting thick people by using text speak' by someone who had a dyslexic child.
I was pissed off. But I was pissed off because she had got it wrong. I was depicting someone using text speak because it was relevant to what I was posting about.

if she had been correct she had every right to be offended and it would have served me right.

The term just makes me think of Jeremy Vine, I think it is actually his job description.

OP I get where you are coming from there are some people who seem to spend their life on the defensive always ready to
Find offense where there is none. Unfortunately as others have mentioned the term is used to belittle people who point out others are offensive, rather than just those who think it's highly inappropriate for their MIL to take an interest in their baby.

Well LentillyFart, the op might have professionally offended in a different way to the way that I have seen it used here - off the top of my head about people who

find the term 'pikey' offensive
point out that 'mentally handicapped' is an outdated and offensive term
suggest that children being rewarded for being bullies, might have special needs

YANBU.
For me, the professionally offended that offend me the most are the religious ones. Give it a rest and stop whining every time somebody makes a joke about the Virgin Mary or Muhammad! And I say this as a devout catholic!

If your talking about the woman here:

www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/fareham-borough-councillor-s-banana-eating-at-meeting-sparks-row-1-3994229

YANBU

If you using it to dismiss differing views then YABU -

Also YABU with new mothers.

It's easy to forget the hormones, the stresses, exhaustion that makes things seem big and very upsetting. It can also be a time of family adjustments and it can also be hard to explain exactly why something apparently little is bugging you but its actually because it really about something else - like being dismissed or undermined.

No point writing a post when MrsDevere put it so succinctly!

The sheer amount of people I saw basically using the same argument of that pug Tosh.0(?)' rape comments broke my heart. :(

YANBU. I agree!

I sometimes think they haven't got enough in their lives to worry about....lucky them! The wine o'clock is a good example... I honestly think some people just like to moan and argue.

Agree OP. The biggest problem in the world is that people don't spend enough time worrying about stuff

yeah because only those with nothing else to worry about get offended at things.

Eurgh. I think 'is that all you've got to worry about' is far worse than the 'professionally offended' line. Having something big to worry about does not stop the minor (or indeed, major) daily occurences about which we might moan. Heck, if anything, it makes them seem twenty times worse.

They are both horribly dimsissive and generalising phrases.