Defending the "C" Word

There has been an ongoing dispute between me and some girl that has been going on for a while, which is a surprise to me because I don't even know her that well. What I do know is that everything she says is ignorant and I've exercised my first amendment right to express how ignorant she is on several occasions.

It's gotten especially heated now because she tried to amend a document and some people were against it. Her request to amend was not honored, and I feel especially gleeful.

I think all of this began when I called her a word that started with the letter "C." It's usually not a word I like to use, but I felt that it was the best word to describe her after all of the things she said. After I said it about her, she got so upset that she started telling everyone about what an evil little queer I am, which I have no problem with because she is entitled to her opinion about me just as I am entitled to call her whatever I want to call her.

I don't see what the big deal is. I called her a "Christian."

One of my classes this semester is Comparative Mythology and we are discussing the Abrahamic religions. The girl says she's a Catholic and was incensed at the fact that I referred to her faith as Christian-based. She feels so strongly about this that she stresses the fact that she is CATH-O-LIC (that's how she pronounces it) and not CHRIS-TIAN. She looks pretty silly when she says it that way, but I'm still right because Catholicism is a derivative of Christianity.

She hasn't liked me ever since I used the C word. That's why she blamed me for her failed attempt to amend the course syllabus to include The Bible as a scholarly journal that can be used as a reference in our final research paper. I simply pointed out that The Bible is not a scholarly journal even though she insists that it was written by scholars. The professor agreed with me and the discussion was closed.

Class discussions are difficult now because she always assumes that everything I say is a dig at her. Doesn't it just make you sick when people start listening to or reading something and they automatically assume that it's about THEM? People should stop worrying about things they can't control and just enjoy their lives.