We get it, Kendra, Holly is a happier, more successful, and more liked person than you are, and you will never forgive her for that.

Psh. Jesus? That pussy? God’s son who went to art school and was kind of a lush? That guy will hang out with anyone. God has way more discerning tastes. It is only republicans and guys who use their bare hands to catch fish for God. Also people who know all the words to sweet home Alabama and get teary eyes everytime…

C’mon, don’t you remember the parable of the Bad Samaritan??

Hey man, this dude was taking orders from God. GOD himself. Not his hippy-dippy son.

So Jesus hung out with tax collectors, lepers and prostitutes, but doesn’t want this guy to help a woman with a Berrnie Sanders bumper sticker?

“And when I got in my truck, you know, I was so proud, because I felt like I finally drew a line in the sand and stood up for what I believed.”

Yes! I agree with the “your ganging up” vs “I feel like your ganging up” difference. it’s something I'm careful to say too

This. I wonder if it's more an issue of how people are listening rather than how they are speaking

I got criticised on the tone thing in email. I just don’t mince my words, if I need an answer to a question my email will be the question and why I need it. Tone is always added by the reader.

ugh, I’ve been trying to UNDO this habit after 25 fuckin years.

There’s a time and a place to be softer in your speech, and I think the mark of a good boss/leader/business person is to know when to use that. Cause being aggressive isn’t inherently a bad thing!

This gal needs to busy herself with other things outside of telling other people how to talk. This is pathetic of her.

It’s not a big deal. This whole thing is so stupid. This person clearly doesn’t have enough going on in their life outside of telling other people how to talk.

Exactly. One of my professors always railed against any mention of how interesting something was. Her correct opinion is that if anything is actually interesting one should be shown that, not told. Informed interest is meaningless garbage.

It also sounds like “the language is changing and since my version is obviously the only correct version, anything that’s different is wrong.” *sigh* Maybe he could take a seminar at the linguistics department?

If you took it that way it probably was. If you did it the way most of us did it you thought carefully about what you wanted to say and the most accurate words to say it.

I had a prof who would mark you down a point if you said or wrote “I think.” Unless you were directly quoting someone, she expected your paper to be made up of your thoughts and she did not need to be told that. You were also allowed one “be” verb per page. She had a private war on lazy writing. She was one of those…

It is not a “millennial” thing. People often use “I feel” as a qualifier when they have less power than the person they are speaking to - and are afraid of being shut down or dismissed. Most often, I hear it when someone is speaking to their boss or someone who has more authority in the work place.

I try to only say it when I’m in a work meeting and I know that people are being dumbasses and don’t really like to hear what is actually going on, so I try to soften the blow and throw out an ‘opinion’ so that maybe they’ll take everything together and come to a good decisions themselves. My coworkers are too quick…

Rather than condemn millennials—and those, shall we say, contaminated by them—for shirking “responsibility” through discourse, let’s acknowledge our more pressing duty: to stop policing speech, and instead welcome the voices clamoring to be heard.

I think Worthen has a point. But then I’m old.