skeletonbow: I'd like to highlight that I say "constructive feedback" and not "constructive criticism" also and I choose those words very carefully and very intentionally because I believe the former is very useful and I believe the latter is very much an oxymoron pretending to be something good when it rarely if ever is.
Potzato: Just on that point, I'd like to say that "criticism" is supposedly being a neutral term, it's just some people that started to use it and understand it as a negative thing. Movie critics say the good and the bad things in the movies they review, as intended. Then maybe it's because people tend to focus on bad things primarily and consider good things as expected that 'criticism' got a bad rep, but it shouldn't be the case.
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Sure, the problem though is that a lot of people will criticize someting with a lot of negative statements, judgment, blame, insults and other negativity, and then call it "constructive criticism" when there's nothing constructive about it at all, but using the word "constructive" is supposed to magically wash away all of the negativity and make it something positive. It's most often a passive-aggressive way of "bitch slapping" someone while simultaneously not taking responsibility for it and trying to put a sleight of hand positive spin on it. :) So I choose to interpret the word "constructive" attached to statements like that as meaning "positive encouraging statements follow". If they do, then it can be useful, but a lot of the time that is not the case. ;o)
