"Sarcasm Hurts " by Jaena F.

            Sarcasm.  We have all dealt with sarcasm before, whether it came from an individual to even yourself contributing to your own sarcasm.  According to the English dictionary, sarcasm is a sharply ironical taunt, to me; it is more like a heaping bowl of thinly veiled insults disguised as humor.  Sure, there is nothing wrong with teases and jokes in life and that it has the value of making life even fun and exciting but when does it come to the point in where you might be actually hurting the person’s feelings? To me personally, I have had my share of the cruel beatings of sarcasm and was always the girl to not really distinguish how to practice sarcasm. I never understood the reason why sarcasm makes one seem superior to their own intelligence and how people are actually proud of being sarcastic. It always leaves me dumbfounded at times in where people topple themselves on to another thinking of “glorious” new comebacks targeting the individual’s weak point. But of course, one shall have the thought of questioning who am I to even have the audacity to spit and belittle the wondrous world of sarcasm and the splendor it has brought upon to the lives of others yet, this is why I am here to explain why sarcasm hurts.

First things first, you’re not the “realest” if you use sarcasm on people who are sensitive to such comments.  As one would say “sarcasm is the lowest form of wit” and people who use sarcasm are usually insecure that they need to hurt other people in order to feel good about themselves is strongly related to one thing that we students are well aware of; bullying.  Bullying, thankfully, has been lessened due to the support from people all around that have a voice to declare that bullying is not okay. But what about sarcasm? Doesn’t sarcasm have the same values at least and in some, maybe the same intentions? Of course sarcasm isn’t bullying, and I as a student am not calling sarcastic people “bullies” but is there really a certain limit in where one word can hurt a person to a certain extent? If we hide such words under humorous structure, is it considered socially acceptable? Or is the declaration of the blatant error of oneself really triumphing to the heart and soul? So does sarcasm really hurt people? It hurts me to see that my point of view may not even be agreed to some readers behind the screen, but a sense of joy and accomplishment will overthrow all the negativity knowing that I can help someone out there who may have went or are going through with constant sarcasm from sarcastic people by giving my opinion on this topic.

            Maybe you are wondering why I have the words sarcasm in bold. When a person spills out a comment to another, who in that time did not know how to react, this has already put them down. Walking to class thinking of that remark, regretting to say what they wanted or needed to say, constantly belittling them that they are stupid, weak, and a big wuss puss for not replying with another low sneer. Sarcasm gets stuck into people and that words do matter and that they can have a big impact. When I put those words on bold you were basically in the mind of a victim of sarcasm. Wherever they went and whatever they did they couldn’t fully function to their full potential just because of that one thinly veiled insult and what they could have done to topple you off. And that is where it really hurts.