acrossthelines wrote:
I absolutely HATE the word creepy and use it as sparingly as possible. I think it's really overused to describe what is normal behavior once the motivations are explained, and people that are perfectly fine are labeled with it and can't get away from that box regardless of what they do, their social lives effectively over... everything they do is misconstrued as being "creepy"... It's an insidious little word. The last time I used it was in telling a friend to stop taking pictures of people's houses on a walk... we were in a neighborhood that's got bigger houses in it than the huge ones in Amherst... yeah, we were there to look at the houses, but taking pictures of someone else's house? CREEPY. I had to take the camera away because she wouldn't stop and I felt really awkward and wrong and, well, creepy. See, things like that are creepy. Smiling at someone is not.
I also hate the word weird when applied to people, unless you're calling a serial killer weird or something.
I hate the phrase, "I find that hard to believe," because that's what my father has always said in response to most things I say when I do try to explain my motivations to him. I gave up with that a few years ago, so I don't hear it from him very often anymore, but I still have a knee-jerk "GO DIE" reaction to hearing that phrase. I glare at people who use it, much to their bewilderment lol.
I'm starting to hate, "I know, right?" I used to say it about five years ago. Now it's to the point where every time my twelve-year-old cousin tries to talk to me on Facebook half the things I say are met with "ikr." STOP IT.
Not to mention girls use the term "creeper" to describe every guy they don't like. It's like, get over yourselves, not everyone is hell bent on frolicking in your nether regions.
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