Hard to by-pass feelings after your start to feel offended or feel threatened....
Logic starts to fail if you're not conscious that your feelings are starting to take over!...
(see if you can catch it next time, the feeling that grabs you and won't let you go! So hard!)
So someone's profile or some terminology you might not like will start some feelings but there might be 100 good things after that which is hard to see right now! It shows you care when your mind or heart has already gone off somewhere!
I just got that feeling so I'm registering it here. I think people can do that together live too and make reactions software by announcing it a bit more!
Easy to say but not easy when it happens to you (my best keyword example today is cryptography, google, facebook etc) but people always deserve a balanced approach with these new people (and inevitably new feelings which can be a good thing and exploration).
Needs more intelligence or tactile ways to ask people more without offending others and without further inflaming your own potential offence too!
AAAaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
BUT we can do it just stick with each other a bit more!... and even mention and move on to something most positive and re-visit it later (it's easy to stick to the bad or over-focus on it - so catch that and move on, come back to it later!)
Ok I have to take my own advice now!