Not emotionally impacted by current events

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m with you OP it is just women borrowing trouble. Assuming you vote and care and stay informed, carrying around sorrow for someone or something you don’t know is childish and attention seeking. It is not noble. Thousands of people die every day in myriad tragic and terrible ways. Do what you can and then move on with your life. You only get one!

This. Privileged people who can afford to center themselves at he middle of every tragedy so they can feel something for once in their little lives. This is nothing new for those of us in the trenches working in our communities since before there was clout in performing online while still doing nothing to actually help.

[Anonymous]

It affects me OP because I know that but for random circumstance, any one of these people could have been me. Or my child, parent, spouse, friend.

[jsmith123]

I'm emotionally impacted, but definitely less than a lot of my friends.

I think it's because I've acknowledged there's not much I can really, truly to do to fix everything on a large scale. I do what I can personally, donating what money I can, volunteering with some local campaigns, etc. And I just try to be a good person and live in the moment to the extent that I can.

I think the fact that I read a lot helps. Human misery is not new.

[Anonymous]

jsmith123 wrote:I'm emotionally impacted, but definitely less than a lot of my friends.

I think it's because I've acknowledged there's not much I can really, truly to do to fix everything on a large scale. I do what I can personally, donating what money I can, volunteering with some local campaigns, etc. And I just try to be a good person and live in the moment to the extent that I can.

I think the fact that I read a lot helps. Human misery is not new.

Very true. People that don’t know history are the easiest to be manipulated by those in power.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who doesn’t feel traumatized or fearful by current events - could be anything...shootings, sexism, racism, etc.

I certainly hope you’re the only one. You should feel fearful if you’re paying attention. Otherwise you’re the dumb chick in the horror movies who gets killed off in the first act. What you don’t know, OP, can kill you or your children.

OP here - I logically understand none of this good. I just don’t feel an emotional burden by it.

Doesn’t mean I am not paying attention, calling for change, etc etc etc.

[b] really don’t get how folks are traumatized by events they were not specifically a part of though[/[b]/quote]

Great question. I also don't get why people are blamed they were not specifically a part of though[/[b]/quote]

Great question. I also don't get why people are blamed they were not specifically a part of though[/[b]/quote]

Great question. I also don't get why people are blamed for events they had nothing to do with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who doesn’t feel traumatized or fearful by current events - could be anything...shootings, sexism, racism, etc.

I certainly hope you’re the only one. You should feel fearful if you’re paying attention. Otherwise you’re the dumb chick in the horror movies who gets killed off in the first act. What you don’t know, OP, can kill you or your children.

OP here - I logically understand none of this good. I just don’t feel an emotional burden by it.

Doesn’t mean I am not paying attention, calling for change, etc etc etc.

I really don’t get how folks are traumatized by events they were not specifically a part of though.

Because as a female or as a mother this all affects you and your children greatly.

If you have any daughters, moving the US to a more religious conservative society is setting women back decades .Do you not understand pay will be less, household voting, credit cards only in husbands names, should i continue? What do you think about your daughters not seen as equals to old white dudes?


Climate change?

Trump destroying our country. Your children deserve way better than the liars, scammers, fake church goers. Trump lies daily yet his church going followers can not remember "Thou shall not lie".

How about Mr Pence, you are ok with that scammer? Clearly Indiana was getting rid of him......

The above bonded section is a [i]bit far fetched [/i

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I feel bad, it just doesn’t “stay” with me.

I read these social media post from friends and activists and they seem to “carry” it with them. I read/watch...feel bad for a moment and move on. Like it doesn’t impact my work day, etc.

Same. And I can’t help but laugh inside at these people wearing masks all around. I have no doubt they may be helpful but they look so stupid. And I just never see evidence that the virus is continuing in places where it initially spread. Seems like it just moved through.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, you all are just plants, taking up space. No concerns about our democracy? The climate and environmental wreckage were handing down to our kids! No concern at all about our rights being in jeopardy with a new conservative justice to be appointed? No concern for whole cities on fire, businesses and homes burning, innocents shot by police, children growing up fearing for their lives? Well, go back to nursing your 5 year old and counting your millions. There will always be a stupid bourgeoise who can’t see past the tips of their smug noses. One of these days the revolution might just punch you in the face. And then maybe you’ll wake up.

Oh the revolution will punch you in the face first. The weak minded are the first to resist and be trampled by the jack boots of history.

Jeez, what a nasty post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who doesn’t feel traumatized or fearful by current events - could be anything...shootings, sexism, racism, etc.

I certainly hope you’re the only one. You should feel fearful if you’re paying attention. Otherwise you’re the dumb chick in the horror movies who gets killed off in the first act. What you don’t know, OP, can kill you or your children.

OP here - I logically understand none of this good. I just don’t feel an emotional burden by it.

Doesn’t mean I am not paying attention, calling for change, etc etc etc.

I really don’t get how folks are traumatized by events they were not specifically a part of though.

Because as a female or as a mother this all affects you and your children greatly.

If you have any daughters, moving the US to a more religious conservative society is setting women back decades .Do you not understand pay will be less, household voting, credit cards only in husbands names, should i continue? What do you think about your daughters not seen as equals to old white dudes?


Climate change?

Trump destroying our country. Your children deserve way better than the liars, scammers, fake church goers. Trump lies daily yet his church going followers can not remember "Thou shall not lie".

How about Mr Pence, you are ok with that scammer? Clearly Indiana was getting rid of him......

I am a Biden supporter, but the hyperbolic suggestions you make should Trump have a second term are ridiculous. Work to get Biden elected instead of needless hand wringing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who doesn’t feel traumatized or fearful by current events - could be anything...shootings, sexism, racism, etc.

I certainly hope you’re the only one. You should feel fearful if you’re paying attention. Otherwise you’re the dumb chick in the horror movies who gets killed off in the first act. What you don’t know, OP, can kill you or your children.

OP here - I logically understand none of this good. I just don’t feel an emotional burden by it.

Doesn’t mean I am not paying attention, calling for change, etc etc etc.

I really don’t get how folks are traumatized by events they were not specifically a part of though.

You’re vapid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm like you op, but mostly because I am burned out of all this woke stuff. It seems everything is a issue or need to be fought these days.... at this point I just roll my eyes when I see some of this crap, like someone going on and on about how Paw Patrol (the children's cartoon) is misogynist and a bunch of other people going like "oh, I have never thought about it, but this is so true!"

And regarding BLM, I cannot understand why some people seem so shocked suddenly - did they live in la la land and didn't know police brutality is a thing in this country, specially towards black and, recently, latinos?

Politics: this has been a crappy year and I have already prepared myself that trump will be re-elected. I will still vote of course, but it is clear to me that this is the country we are living in - a majority of obnoxious, racists, ignorant and plain stupid people in one hand, and a bunch of woke and purists - also obnoxious, ignorant and plain stupid in the other hand that will not vote for Biden because he is not their choice. They apparantly never heard of the word compromise of the expression "the lesser of two evils."

Stuff like that drives me crazy. And those who act like that don't understand how damaging it all is for people to get burned out on the "woke stuff". I think my favorite experience (sarcastic) was when someone was telling me that a certain pattern on a sweater was cultural appropriation. That is part of my culture and I said something the lines of "well no a lot of us aren't bothered by things like that. It is really things like X and Y that are offensive" And that person that tried to argue that I was wrong and that it was offensive. I told her that she was being more offensive than the sweater but that just led her to dig deeper into her stance. It was beyond ridiculous.

Please stop spreading the materially false myth of the large number of leftists who won’t vote for Biden. It’s both-sidesing and it’s not true - and it’s going to tick people off necessarily. Signed - voted for Sanders in the primary in 2016 and then for Clinton in the general, as did everyone I know who shared my primary vote —- and is geared up to vote in person for Biden.

[Anonymous]

The ability to rationalize, absorb, and move past the terrible things that happen in this world, without wrapping it around us like a weighted blanket, is a super power. There are tons of us like this and it allows us to rise above the human condition and get shiz done. Go us!

[Anonymous]

How old are you? I was 16 when 9/11 happened, and I distinctly remember getting very "jaded" by current events after that because I was so turned off by how the news media exploited 9/11 for ratings. I guess I became cynical. Now, it just seems like such an endless cycle of "bad news" that I just tune most of it out.

I will say, one thing I was truly shocked by was when Trayvon Martin was killed. I remember hearing that on NPR and just being totally shocked that that could happen.

[Anonymous]

Haven't read all the responses but OP, I don't think you are abnormal for not being emotionally impacted. I don't think it's a bad thing.

I am emotionally impacted for sure. But DH is less so, and he's in a helping profession. But I think it's good that he doesn't carry that emotional burden with him constantly - he wouldn't be able to do his job otherwise. He can be empathic in the moment, but he doesn't carry it around with him or let it take over. He's able to compartmentalize or create some kind of distance, which allows him to do his job more effectively.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all realize bad things have always happened right? Life now is better than it has been for 99.999% of human history.

Too many people let the media tell them what to feel and think.

I’m with OP.

Sorry but i had never seen a person kneel on another person's neck until they were dead. That was new to me.

Well you have not personally witnessed any of the atrocities in history, have you? And yet they happened. We’ve never lived in a more fair and more just society. Take a walk through your history books. Go back to ancient civilizations and medieval history to the Roman Empire, to colonialism. Humanity has been brutal and violent and we are lucky to be living in a relatively fair and just world.