I never demanded that you act a certain way, I merely pointed out that it would be kinder and more helpful to do so. Your replies are increasingly belligerent and childish so I'm going to most likely bow out of this thread.

*not very sympathy inducing

OK. So you don't care about helping. How about doing less harm than good. I realize that you believe you're not the only one who feels this way about the article. You're probably right. BUT commenting so goes directly to the author which is a little uncool.

That's fine if you don't why to sympathize but why publicly state it? That's my point. You announcing that helps no one. Not you, not her. No one.

I guess that sympathy is nice in theory but creating an account just to comment in a way that diminishes the author's experience is very sympathy inducing. Sorry.

But this article wasn't about you and your trauma. It was about the author's. You came on here and said because of your's you had no desire to empathize or understand. I merely pointed out that's a little messed up. I have no opinion on your trauma.

Nowhere in the article was she trying to normalize this situation. I think she conveyed pretty well how screwed up it was and how screwed up she felt.

17 stars and counting.

That's great and all but why do you think anyone (especially the author) needed to know, or even cares really, about your unwillingness to empathize or understand? Not every thought or feeling you have is important enough that you have to express it, especially when it only serves to compound someone else's trauma. I…

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But you have plenty of desire to comment about your lack of desire to sympathize or understand someone whose experiences were not yours. Got it. Thanks for stopping by.

Depends on my quality of life.

So you got your ass handed to you intellectually and then resorted to name calling. What a surprise.

I love PJ Harvey to death but I am not a fan of this cover version. At all.

I dunno, Devil's Backbone was pretty scary.

I dunno, Devil's Backbone was pretty frightening.

I always adopt adults. A couple of months ago I thought I adopted 2 10 year old fellas. Turns out I adopted 2 6 year old fellas. I felt a little bad when I found out I wasn't doing as good a deed as I thought. Then the one developed inflammatory bowel disease which we've been struggling with so I feel like it was a…

A couple of reviews I've read on the internet pointed out that that's Andrew Lincoln reading actual reports from the Rwandan genocide. It's something Tyreese would've heard about, sounds similar enough to what the zombie outbreak probably started as, and would be enough to make someone one the edge between life and…

Nope. He's from New Jersey.

Honestly, i think some Canadians just use the difference in tipping cultures as an excuse to be cheap. To be fair I may have had plenty of Canadian customers who tipped just fine and I didn't know they were Canadian because they paid in cash.