Anyone else find this pretty ignorant and offensive

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Advert for a local company popped up on my fb, what were they thinking!

Its obviously perfectly ok to be annoyed by it and to 'stick up' for someone else

"I'd wager that driving humour out of all aspects of our lives in the name of political correctness will do more harm for our collective mental health than good."

Why do you think that humour has to be "politically incorrect"?

And ncidentally, it't not even funny. Obsessive Cake Desire might be mildly amusing at a massive stretch, but Obsessive Cake Disorder doesn't even make sense.

I find it hard to find this offensive, but I don't have OCD. I do like cake though

You don't have to be offended by it to acknocwledge that it may be offensive.

You don't have to be offended by it to acknocwledge that it may be offensive.

But what we're told to find offensive has become somewhat arbitrary. 'Idiot' remains acceptable despite the fact that it's no different than 'retarded', and so on.

You don't have to be offended by it to acknocwledge that it may be offensive.
Absolutely anything can be offensive to someone. You not spelling acknowledge correctly offends me (my brain is screaming 'it looks wrong, can't cope!') but I don't expect everyone else to be offended too. And I don't need to point it out (but I needed a convenient example & it was handy, otherwise I wouldn't have done). I'm happy for other people to be offended too on someone else's behalf but I detest it when that "offendedness" is forced onto others - the whole 'I'm offended and you must be too'.

I've got OCD and don't find it offensive.
Its a pun on the acronym shrugs it makes no judgement or insult on mental health.
There are plenty of things worth getting offended about.

So apart from the OP, 4 people on this thread have OCD, and 100% of them don't find this offensive. For those that don't have OCD and find this offensive, either you're taking personal offence at something that's nothing to do with you, which would be plain bizarre, or you're taking offence on behalf of other people (who don't find it offensive), and people doing that particular piece of lunacy are the reason you see councils banning flags of St. George and people wishing each other "happy holidays" on December 25th.

Wait, now that's FIVE people with OCD, still 100% of whom don't find it offensive.

I have OCD and I love cake , I think it's funny.

I don't find it offensive but it's stupid and in poor taste.

Apart from the OP, ThePants.

I apologise for the offence caused by my typo.

Can I ask... those of you who find it in poor taste...

Are you licking your screens? How do you know those cakes taste poor?

thepants

Or a third reason is that they may know someone with OCD who finds it offensive

And I may have the secret to eternal life....

But what we're told to find offensive has become somewhat arbitrary.

Who is telling you to find this offensive?

I don't find it offensive. If you find it offensive op don't buy the cake?

Love how my view doesn't matter the pants wouldn't want to mess with your 100% findings

"people doing that particular piece of lunacy are the reason you see councils banning flags of St. George and people wishing each other "happy holidays" on December 25th"

Oh yes. Don't forget Winterval. And at some state schools they actually say "herstory" because "history" is sexist. Can you believe it?

"people doing that particular piece of lunacy are the reason you see councils banning flags of St. George and people wishing each other "happy holidays" on December 25th"

I missed this, for goodness sake

I am wrong. OCD is clearly something to aspire to and all the "sufferers" just like a clean kitchen

It's not funny and it's unnecessary. I'm not offended however I think the overuse or the term OCD to describe people that like to clean or like things in a certain order etc completely minimizes and undermines the condition.

This rubbish advert adds to that.

And people with depression and /or anxiety just need to pull themselves together, bracing walk in the fresh air.

I have OCD and I'm not offended. But then if you substituted the Obsessive for autistic for example I would be offended which proves the point the OCD jokes are fair game when they shouldn't be. There is nothing funny about having OCD at all.

But the advert makes no reference to cleaning? It's about being obsessed with cakes.