Crazy Ironies.

“Eni buru mo. Sugbon eni ti o ma so fun lo nwa.” (A terrible person knows he or she is terrible. But such a person will always want someone else to say so).” - Yoruba adage.  

Ironically, when that “someone” does have the guts to say so, the same terrible person will feel offended---for being told what he or she already knows. It’s such an interesting aspect of human nature.

For example:

Try walking up to a street hooker or prostitute to call or address her as a hooker and see how offended she will be. The same goes for a pimp.   

There was the story of a Klu Klux Klan member who, in the early 1980s, got so offended when someone addressed him as a “redneck” (racist) that he was said to have threatened a legal action for “malicious slander”. According to the story, even the man’s attorney had to shake his head and smiled while telling him to “please, forget about it”.

I remember the story of two prison inmates who were thrown into the “hole” for fighting. The cause of the brutal fight was that one felt “disrespected” for being taunted as a rapist. He therefore demanded for an apology. But instead of an apology, the other guy went on to call him a pedophile. At a subsequent hearing, the Hearing Officer was stunned to discover that the “aggrieved” person was actually serving a sentence for statutory rape.

It’s such a crazy irony of life.