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Message: <blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 9202502" data-attributes="member: 71235">So is taking offense at being accused of doing things that are bonkers, because that clearly means one is bonkers oneself.I did several bonkers things before I even left my apartment today, and then at queer tango class I did several more bonkers things. I even made the poor straight guy at the queer tango class need to take a break before finishing the set of songs he agreed to dance to with another man. (He was, from what I hear, there to meet women, which seems kinda bonkers to me.)Of course there are levels of actual accusation and impugnation (I just made that word up, so bonkers*) of being rather than doing bonkers, and it is possible to phrase such accusations and impugnations such that one can attempt to claim no malicious intent when one is in fact acting very much like Miss Manners when she clearly thinks an offender of manners deserves a fork in the hand rather than simply being asked to stop nicking one's french fries. A higher amount of emotionally-charged phrasing around such a statement, even if meant in the doing rather than being sense, greatly increases the likelihood that someone being asserted as doing bonkers will infer that they are being accused of being bonkers.* For what it's worth, the proper term is "impugnment".</blockquote>