Quote:If a cop asks me to identify a perpetrator, I will use the color of his skin when applicable ... Should I not?

 

Naturally.

 

But that isn't the context I posed in my hypotheticals.

 

Yes, it would be a matter of fact to identify a person according to a characteristic.

 

But depending upon context, it could be seen as insulting.

 

Tell me if this sounds even vaguely familiar.

 

You are with your girlfriend/wife, and you say something from clearly a male perspective or something that otherwise disturbs her feminine sensibilities-even if in a light hearted manner. 

 

She replies to you...with eyes rolled: "You are such a man."

 

Factually, yes, you may be a man.  But she meant it in the pejorative...as a dig.

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