To think some people call themselves “blunt” because they don’t want to develop empathy?

[BluntOrInsensitive]

Honesty doesn’t require cruelty.

Socially awkwardness in my case. I'd love to have more finesse when dealing with people.

100% agree.

The 'I tell it like it is' brigade piss me right off. They act like being rude and obnoxious, and dishing out their shitty rude offensive opinions, is some kind of positive trait, and a 'strength.'

I HATE people who are like this. I know several people who are too. The last one who was brutally honest with me and gave me her unfiltered opinion is a woman who lives not far from me (up the road.) I made it clear that what she had said had offended me, and she doubled down by saying I was 'very silly' and 'oversensitive.' No apology or anything.

So I stopped speaking to her. If I see her coming when I'm in the garden, I turn my back and walk away. She called 'hello Zov' a few times after this particular incident, and I ignored her and walked back into my house. She knows I am fucked off, and that I was offended and upset by what she said. She doesn't care. If she did, she would apologise. She no longer tries to speak to me. Result!

Be a rude opinionated cunt if you want to, if that's just the way you are, but don't expect me to talk to you again.

Blunt, you mean bloody rude.

This is one of those threads -
Started by a first time AI OP with a name specific to the topic.
OP will either never come back or will come back with increasingly twisting versions of their OP.
All further posts if there are any will be word soup.
We used to have loads of these - often misogynistic, often rage bait.
Not had one for a while but boringly here it is again.

Previous examples were like this -
Title - Why do so many women unkind to other women
OP name - @Bitchesnotkind
Content of first post - Women lack the empathy men have.
Any rebuttal met with - You have a point, but what I was saying, on balance is that what I've observed is so many women are unpleasant unnecessarily but only to other women.

I find people that say:

I speak as I find
I am honest in my opinions
I say how I feel and try to be truly authentic
I’m blunt
I’m straight talking
I cut to the chase

etc are all just ways of saying I am not nice and I know it - and they are really not nice people.