Because, let's face it, people love to be offended, and nobody with a shred of intelligence actually thinks this is serious.

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Their loyalties may lie with their mother, and they believe she will be offended if they acknowledge their stepmother.

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There was something I kept thinking about as I spoke with Gaylord and Hanson, and I hoped they wouldn't be offended if I brought it up, because I meant it as a compliment.

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When I do a cartoon that can be seen as shocking for people, I want to be able to defend that cartoon eye-to-eye with the person that feels offended.

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And it does so in a dumbed-down Esperanto that its audience can't fail to understand -- the universal language of commercial TV sitcoms, with their constrained cultural vocabulary and their subtext of harmlessness: Don't be offended, none of this really means anything, it's just a goof about a lot of dumb stuff going down around us.

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Dr Byrne's book offended by presenting a feminist plea that Catholic woman should be allowed to administer the sacrament, a view that conflicts with the Pope's 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, that the Catholic church cannot and will not ordain women.

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