And empathy doesn't require kindness. The entire point there was the important lesson that people really don't care about men's problems, especially emotional ones. Period. And no amount of being upset about it will change that.
People, especially women, will bait you into thinking that they do. But it will always end up lowering their opinion of you, and usually not actually help you. "Talk Therapy" is a women's method of dealing with things, and for most men it just keeps you wallowing instead of dealing with your baggage.
Literally no one here would give much of a shit about him if he wasn't the son of a famous and hated political figure, and him being this fucked up was a great cudgel against him and the Streamers/Libs. Its literally the way this topic was titled. He'd be just another broken nameless teen that people would forget about tomorrow.
You're ridiculing him by calling him whiny.
Because he is being whiny. He wants to come on the internet, say he is a grown man and talk he gets treated like everyone else. Stay in the kid's corner if you want special kid protections.
Yes. I don't want you to be kind to him either. But the way you're phrasing what you're saying it gives off the impression that you're actively ridiculing him because you're annoyed at him for publicly complaining despite growing up in a household with seemingly a lot of money. Perhaps it's just a case of miscommunication/misunderstanding but that's what I take issue with.
I agree with you that he has to toughen up eventually because otherwise he'll just end up a broken person. But he's 14. He's still a kid. To learn to live with a fucked up upbringing is a process that doesn't happen overnight and it especially doesn't happen as long as you're stuck in that environment. So let him vent, let him complain, let him rebel, it's part of that process. Ridiculing him for it is as contra-productive as coddling him would be. That's the point I'm trying to make.
He wants to come on the internet, say he is a grown man and talk he gets treated like everyone else.
Where did he say he's a grown man? He complained about having to becoming an adult without having anyone to actually teach him. Which is a valid complain for a kid to have.
And empathy doesn't require kindness. The entire point there was the important lesson that people really don't care about men's problems, especially emotional ones. Period. And no amount of being upset about it will change that.
People, especially women, will bait you into thinking that they do. But it will always end up lowering their opinion of you, and usually not actually help you. "Talk Therapy" is a women's method of dealing with things, and for most men it just keeps you wallowing instead of dealing with your baggage.
Literally no one here would give much of a shit about him if he wasn't the son of a famous and hated political figure, and him being this fucked up was a great cudgel against him and the Streamers/Libs. Its literally the way this topic was titled. He'd be just another broken nameless teen that people would forget about tomorrow.
Because he is being whiny. He wants to come on the internet, say he is a grown man and talk he gets treated like everyone else. Stay in the kid's corner if you want special kid protections.
Yes. I don't want you to be kind to him either. But the way you're phrasing what you're saying it gives off the impression that you're actively ridiculing him because you're annoyed at him for publicly complaining despite growing up in a household with seemingly a lot of money. Perhaps it's just a case of miscommunication/misunderstanding but that's what I take issue with.
I agree with you that he has to toughen up eventually because otherwise he'll just end up a broken person. But he's 14. He's still a kid. To learn to live with a fucked up upbringing is a process that doesn't happen overnight and it especially doesn't happen as long as you're stuck in that environment. So let him vent, let him complain, let him rebel, it's part of that process. Ridiculing him for it is as contra-productive as coddling him would be. That's the point I'm trying to make.
Where did he say he's a grown man? He complained about having to becoming an adult without having anyone to actually teach him. Which is a valid complain for a kid to have.