Just Keeping it Real?
A few posts back, I mentioned my displeasure with people excusing their ill behavior by saying, “I’m just keeping it real.”
Recently I’ve encountered several memes in this vein littering Facebook.
Let us be clear about this: rudeness and honesty are not mutually exclusive traits. I would argue much rudeness is simply an expression of unnecessary honesty.
Let’s say you see a person who you believe could stand to lose a few pounds, and you say, “hey fatty, you need to lay off Ding-Dongs before you go into a sugar coma.”
Honest: very possibly.
Rude: without question.
If you meet a person you find to be less than attractive and you utter something like, “you know, the thought of dating you makes me vomit in my mouth a little.”
Honest: why not?
Rude: absolutely. (Plus, I was having a bad hair day, so it really wasn’t fair.)
If you take a bite of your aunt’s potato salad at a family picnic, and you gag, then loudly proclaim that it tastes like a monkey peed on death…well, that’s just funny.
Then there’s this meme: 
Knowing and having been around some of the people who have slapped memes such as this one on their Facebook page, I can state without fear of contradiction: you and I have never been thinking the same thing. Ever!
In fact, the words that tumble from your lips tend to be quite shocking.
It’s not shocking that you’ve said them; it’s just shocking that they’re the product of an undiseased human brain.
But this is the meme I really appreciate:
Let’s take those exact same words and rearrange them slightly:
I’m not just brutally honest. I’m a bitch.
Is that rude?
Hey, I’m just trying to keep real.
idiotpruf 