The "Serious disappointment in the human race" thread.

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by James

I mean, was she serious in telling him off there? because if so, I think that's ridiculous.

I think her main intent was to keep things from spiraling into a shit fest. It's safer to assume that something is going to be more offensive than not, because it's easier on everyone to try and prevent something rather than to clean it up after the fact, after people have taken things personally and earned themselves actual punishments.