Anyone else find this pretty ignorant and offensive

[Herdingcows]

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

Tell them the ones with the jam in are far superior than the dry, slightly wooden iced ones

I do find the professionally unoffended interesting. What's in it for you, exactly?

Can you be professionally unoffended? A lack of offence is not exactly something one needs to strive for, I would have thought it was the default position, no?

*To all those saying it's just an acronym how would you feel about

I've got AIDS (acquired iced doughnut syndrome)*
I would probably laugh, think of the South Park episode and buy a Donut.

Or finding something offensive but recognising that the offence stems from your perspective rather than someone's deliberate attempt to hurt.

I am offended on a daily basis, I would imagine most people are often jarred by things they see, hear, smell, touch, taste, but I am aware that some of it stems from me and the deliberate stuff is the work of lesser intellects - which I can ignore!

Agree with Elledouble. The cake thing doesn't bother me, I have quite bad OCD. What I find quite frustrating is the perception that it's all about handwashing or your tins facing the same way.
Having said that, OCD is a complex ( and quite interesting) condition with multiple facets/symptoms so expecting the average non sufferer to know that it is probably expecting a bit too much.

They're not taking the piss out of people with OCD so no, it doesn't bother me.
This.

I have OCD and this is quite annoying.

A lot of comedians make jokes about all kinds of things that someone is going to find offensive. They are still funny though (sometimes). I don't think anything is really off limits for a laugh.

The cake thing I find neither funny or offensive.

I'm with you OP disabilities are not something to be made light of

I'm not offended but it irritates me. I hate the trivialisation of mental health issues - OCD seems to be the most common to "joke" about.

I can't say I'm overly offended but I don't think it's very well thought out or funny. I haven't got OCD but I remember being told by a sufferer some things they went through on a daily basis. It sounded like a form of mental torture to me. So I personally would never use the expression "I have ocd" even if followed up with something supposedly witty.

How are you going to explain that to many disabled artists, comedians, actors and activists?

If you want to start imposing a ban on such 'jokes' you will be stifling the very people you want to defend, robbing them of their voice, their right to self expression.

That is the real danger of any uber-PC social more. Being Publicly Offended could be the thin end of a very large wedge!

Suffered with OCD as a child and teen. Still get relapses now.

Today this doesn't upset me, in the past it would have. Overall, I think it's a bit crass and overused. There are better cake-related puns for marketing-purposes.

But surely it's just a play on words and absolutley no comment is being made about people with OCD?

I am not offended by it. I am offended by people who say "I'm a little bit OCD" to excuse dickish and controlling behaviour.

Acronyms vary, it isn't exclusive:

Rank Abbr. Meaning
OCD Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Inc
OCD Operational Concept Description
OCD Optical Critical Dimension (metrology)
OCD Out of Cell Delineation
OCD Ocean Chemistry Division
OCD Ordre des Cols Durs (France cycling club)
OCD Off Campus Dons
OCD Obsessive Cullen Disorder
OCD Object Component Desktop
OCD Optical Concentration Device
OCD Optical Communications Demonstrator
OCD Obscure Character of the Day
OCD Overseas Control Date
OCD Offensive Central Defender (gaming)
OCD Over-Constrained Dispatch
OCD Optimal Coherent Decomposition
OCD Occupational Cerviobrachial Disorder
OCD Optically Coupled Device
OCD Order Configuration and Distribution
OCD Ordnance Clearance Detachment
OCD Over-Complete Dictionary
OCD Obsessive Clinton Disorder (humor)
OCD Operations Capability Development
OCD Oil Content Detector
OCD Over Cleaning Disorder (humor)
OCD Operations Control Directive (NASA)
OCD Obsessive Comics Disorder
OCD Offshore Centre Denmark
OCD Ordered Constant Depth
OCD Ordnance Classification of Defects
OCD Operational Control Document
OCD Order of Discalced Carmelites (Catholic Order; The Secular Order of Carmel)
OCD Optionally Convertible Debenture (finance)
OCD Organized Crime Division
OCD Organizing for Community Development
OCD Osteochondral Defect
OCD Osteochondritis Dissecans
OCD Over the Counter Drugs
OCD Oxalyl-CoA Decarboxylase (enzyme)
OCD Oxford Classical Dictionary
OCD Oxygen Conserving Device (various companies)
OCD Oil Conservation Division
OCD Off-Chip Driver
OCD Operator Control Display (AEGIS Combat Training System ACTS)
OCD Operational Concept Document
OCD Okanogan Conservation District
OCD On Chip Debugger
OCD Online Course Development (various universities)
OCD Ontario Camp of the Deaf (Ontario, Canada)
OCD Ontario College Diploma (Canada)
OCD Opening Closed Doors
OCD Operational Capability Demonstration
OCD Obsessive Completion Distinction
OCD Obsessive Castle Disorder
OCD Oahu Civil Defense (Hawaii)
OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD Office of Child Development
OCD Office of Civil Defense
OCD Office of Civilian Defense (USA)
OCD Office of Coal Development
OCD Office of Commonwealth Development (Massachusetts)
OCD Office of Community Development (USDA)
OCD Office of the Center Director
OCD Officer Career Development
OCD Officer of Civilian Defense (US Navy)
OCD Official Catholic Directory
OCD Offshore and Coastal Dispersion

Oh come on that's ridiculous! In every day use it stands for obsessive compulsive disorder.
Are you seriously suggesting that poster isn't using that as a pun?
Back to my acquired iced doughnut syndrome I think.

It just annoys me that people find OCD a thing to laugh at and most don't really understand it.

This reminds me of a post recently where the OP used the term epileptic to describe her friend and got slated because apparently she should have used person with epilepsy. No-one bothered to ask what the OP's friend called herself. Or bothered to say that actually it was a personal choice.

Sorry Katy but you are incorrect. I was one of the people who responded to the OP on that thread and I acknowledged both that it might be the friend's preferred term, in which case it was fine, AND explained (in response to the OP not having a clue generally why she'd been pulled up - not originally by me - as opposed to her knowing specifically that her friend preferred one term over another) that I personally use "person with epilepsy" unless and until I know the individual prefers "an epileptic". So it is simply not true to claim "no one" said the things you state, and belittles those of us who DID acknowledge that it is personal preference, but who were responding to the OP's (quite rude and dismissive) cluelessness that there is even such a thing as person-first language.

No. Not offensive, just a play on acronyms. It seems a lot of people here go searching for things to get offended by!

Are you being Professionally Offended?
Is OCD the only term allowed to use this 3 letters of the alphabet?

Lake house so would you feel thesame about the AIDS one?

" StrangeLookingParasite

I've got AIDS (acquired iced doughnut syndrome)

I would think it was probably not a very successful marketing slogan."
More or less successful than the OCD one?

DrivingMeBonkers- .can I address this question specifically to you?

Why are you so keen to prove that there is no way anyone should be even slightly bothered by the he use of OCD in this context?

I'm not Lake but I'd feel the same about the AIDS one. Not at all funny but I wouldn't find it offensive. I'd just find it rather stupid and ineffective.