"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."
This is utterly untrue.
So often we say things that carry so much negative meaning and we don't even realize it.
Well Dane Cook did.
Check out this clip from his Isolated Incident tour last year.
That pretty much says it all. He uses humor but obviously when we say something is gay or "Sorry I just raped your Facebook wall" for commenting five times in two days, this is NOT funny to someone who is gay or has been raped.
Take Dane Cook's advice and quit using someone's lifestyle as a derogative adjective and stop tossing around the word rape as though it is on the same level of severity as losing a video game.
Put yourself in their shoes. Think before you speak.
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