I know, right? Exhausting. One could say it’s a...I don’t know....burden?

This was my thoughts exactly! Are the Neo Nazis so weak that they need political correctness to protect their wittle fee fees? Should we send them a therapy dog to hug, the poor dears?

Do you have any idea how hard it is to be White? It’s not easy controlling the vast majority of the world’s wealth, political power, and military might.

It seems the Nazi “Alt” right are the ones in actual need of safespaces and whose feelings are easily hurt.

There are normal reasons for that, such as the huge pool of baby boomer icons who are starting to hit the aging/dying point. We’re going to see a lot of this in the decade to come. It’s not really weird, it’s just natural when so many legends who have endured over the years come from one particularly large generation.

The fact that we have a cultural problem when it comes to dealing with death is not a controversial sentiment. If you haven’t, I recommend that you read Becker, Gawande, Kalanithi and others — the “death denial” in the U.S. has made it such that the quality of our palliative care is sorely lacking.

It’s more the whole idea of “bad things are happening because - - 2016.” In a week it will be 2017, and bad things will continue to happen, as they do. So then, what, we’ll start screaming, “Fuck 2017?”

Apparently you’re TELLING people how to feel. Ordering them to stop saying FUCK 2016. That’s what I got from all this, at least. :D

And whenever I ask a “fuck you” commenter for a direct example of where I have been insensitive, I am not given it. Instead, I am just told, again, to fuck off because “reasons.”

Yes, thanks. Honestly, I think a lot of people are just waiting to be offended, so even the most innocuous of statements can easily lead to a “pile on.”

IrisJK, you and I have had our disagreements in the past, and yet I am troubled seeing you so attacked for voicing a difference of opinion. I love Jezebel so much, so very much (as I know you do), but this tendency of group pile-on actually pains me physically. I have been on the receiving end of it, too, and it…

“How did people get “insensitive” from her comments?”

Yes, indeed — bound to be another busy next few decades. ;) At the same time, of course, we non-famous folks will also continue to perish, although far fewer people will give a shit. And so it goes!

But where am I actually doing that? My main point, really, has been about how tragedy doesn’t care about calendar years, and that keeping certain things in perspective can be calming and possibly helpful.

Does that mean we’ll hear a lot of “2017 IS THE WORST” next year when more of these pop culture heroes continue to pass away? :/

I’m very sorry that happened to your FIL. Pancreatic cancer is a bitch, and it’s a terrible way to go. And 53 is very young. Of course that is terrible, just terrible.

I would think that, at many grief groups, people talk about how they themselves cope with things, and that may help other people? Isn’t that at least part of the point of such discourse?

As the saying goes, in times of chaos, the rights of women and minorities are the first to go. These fringe groups are just waiting in the wings for their chance.

Sorry if this is hot take-y: This is not a trend, this is an EPIDEMIC. Powerful men with access to children need to be monitored.