My space

Last weekend, I woke up from a very nice, restful sleep and read a reply on a tweet I posted a few days ago. It was me talking to myself (which is what I usually do in Twitter anyways) and saying that I don’t find feminine features in a man attractive. I actually said so after having a conversation with a friend about preferences and it kinda stuck in my head long enough for me to tweet about it.

That morning I saw this reply to that harmless tweet:

Since he used the acronym IMO on me, it would only be fair me to say that personally as well, I don’t appreciate this reply and it did hit a nerve. Call me touchy but I don’t think we should normalize calling out people on their own post, on their own space and more so when talking about one’s preference.

Point me to that rule that I should not be talking about my preferences online. Especially when I did not post this as a reply to another person’s post for him to conveniently preach that I shouldn’t be volunteering this information. 

Firstly, it didn’t have any antagonistic intent. It was not meant to insult the group of people I was describing. If some people find that tweet insensitive then that is overreaching. I usually say things not with the objective to appease or upset people. How they take it is their problem, but since this is Twitter, I say people should just chill. This is nothing but a void. You take what you like, ignore what you don’t. Jeez, if I get offended by every little thing I see online then I shouldn’t be on it. I see a lot of things there everyday that I don’t necessarily agree with, but I don’t call each and every people out.

What’s weird is that while I know this person, we are not following each other on Twitter. How he ended up on my Twitter profile and then singled-out this tweet baffles me. I also find it funny how he used the word “logic” when what I said does not require logic because I certainly was not giving a statement that is true for everyone else. As what I said to him in reply, if I read a tweet stating dislike on a feature I have—I will not be bothered by it all. 

And I wonder, if I said something he agrees to, will he call me out on behalf of the other people who might feel bad about what I said? I don’t think so. 

But let me say that he was right at one thing: It is my space. Quit telling people to stop posting something you don’t necessarily agree with especially when you can simply ignore, mute, unfollow or unfriend.