Oh noooo, his dad is a degenerate loser. Surely he is the first ever to suffer that fate! He must now whine to the internet about his miserable fate like he is living in a true hell that can never be escaped from.
I was corrected further down that he was 14, having mistakenly assumed he was older. So my position changed from "grow up" to "stop acting exactly like your dad if you hate him so much."
I'm sure performative empathy and telling him how his life is so bad is so much more helpful. It certainly won't lock him into a cycle of self loathing and never being able to move on.
I'll give him some slack, because he is 14 and his situation is awful.
But he himself is saying he is already a man because he raised himself, and then immediately goes into "nothing is my fault! " That's where he drops from struggling with a bad situation to clearly not looking for solutions, while already sealing himself off from improving because he considers himself "matured."
Oh noooo, his dad is a degenerate loser. Surely he is the first ever to suffer that fate! He must now whine to the internet about his miserable fate like he is living in a true hell that can never be escaped from.
I was corrected further down that he was 14, having mistakenly assumed he was older. So my position changed from "grow up" to "stop acting exactly like your dad if you hate him so much."
This is why nobody likes older people. You can't complain about anything without them crying about how much harder they had it.
I'm sure performative empathy and telling him how his life is so bad is so much more helpful. It certainly won't lock him into a cycle of self loathing and never being able to move on.
Just cut him some slack I'd say. He's basically pointing out lack of mentorship for young men. You can't discredit that in good faith.
I'll give him some slack, because he is 14 and his situation is awful.
But he himself is saying he is already a man because he raised himself, and then immediately goes into "nothing is my fault! " That's where he drops from struggling with a bad situation to clearly not looking for solutions, while already sealing himself off from improving because he considers himself "matured."