Name Calling: How Toxic People Use It As An Emotional Weapon (And What You Can Do About It!)
Name calling is a disease that infects us all. All you have to do is turn on the television or get online to see it in action.
Let’s face it. There are no lack of words and phrases to call out the fact we’re not perfect.
Over the past few months, I can recall at least 10 to 20 different insults, just off the top of my head, that talk about women in a negative light, such as crazy b*tch, butter face, fattie, and others.
While women bear the biggest brunt of the insult game, men have been called their fair share too, such as sissy, pervert, douchebag, and more.
I know there are a lot of other raunchier names I could have listed, but I’d like to keep it clean, or as clean as I can keep it having already mentioned a few insults that make me want to vomit. Okay, let’s keep this article moving…
For decades it bothered me when people called me names. I didn’t understand WHY people felt the need to fling insults. And, for a time, I was using them too, mostly out of being called them myself as well as sheer frustration and anger. It wasn’t until recently that I learned all this name calling had nothing really to do with me after all.
Here are the 4 reasons I discovered why people call other people nasty names:
