Please Stop Sharing the ‘Name-Calling’ Posts [VIDEO]

Recently, a bunch of our contributors started sharing a post.

The Biggest Douche Bag from Each State. I guess they thought it was funny.

Now, I'm not here saying this because I think that the people named in the list need my protection. They don't.

I just think that, in terms of creativity, calling people names is pretty shoddy work. Furthermore, calling people names that don't fit at all is not something we should be sharing.

On the sufrace, it's kind of a funny concept. The 'Biggest (insert descriptor here) from Each State' blog post always gets a lot of clicks. But when the picks are so ludicrous, we shouldn't be rewarding it with shares.

Mark Wahlberg, say what you might about him, is not a douche bag. He can be described in about a billion other ways, but 'douche' is not one of them. It's not the right term.

A 'douche bag' is an idiot. A 'douche bag' is a person who can't succeed. A 'douche bag' is clueless to the point of incompetence. A 'douche bag' ruins everything. A 'douche bag' is a dork. A 'douche bag' is not a person people want to be around. I haven't done any scientific studies, but I'm thinking if Mark Wahlberg calls and says "Let's hang out," he won't have much trouble finding people to say yes. Were he a douche bag, that wouldn't be the case.

Phil Jackson, eleven time NBA champion coach, two time championship winner as a player, is not ineffective, incompetent, or idiotic. When Phil shows up, things go right, not wrong. I know the Knicks didn't have a good year. That's not enough to call this man a 'douche'.

If the article picked better douches, I wouldn't have reacted to it. I would have just not shared it.

That's the same thing you should do. Not share it.