A way for some folks to claim that if you donate enough money, morale will get better.
The people claiming to be morale boosters were making a lot of money off the grief/tragedy/sympathy crisis, but would be quick to try and tear morale apart again if they needed more money for another grief/tragedy/sympathy crisis. The reality is nobody's morale needs a boost.
A way for some folks to claim that if you donate enough money, morale will get better.
The people claiming to be morale boosters were making a lot of money off the grief/tragedy/sympathy crisis, but would be quick to try and tear morale apart again if they needed more money for another grief/tragedy/sympathy crisis.
A stranger, or acquaintance that preys upon others for their sympathy, without regard to their familiarity with the person.
Kyle is such a sympathy rapist. He just walks up to people he doesn't know, and starts telling them about his problems so that someone will feel bad for him.
when a friend or acquaintance's anger rubs off on you and you become angry about the same thing
Me: I hated T.Swift when she played country music. It made me viscerally upset. She was so annoying.
Friend: Ugh I know! Every time I changed the radio station her country song was on in a different phase. I couldn't escape it. It was terrible. God, I'm pissed about it all over again!
Me: Bro, you have mad sympathy anger right now.
When your cis male partner or friend has a symbolic period (when you as a cis female have yours).
A sympathy period can surface in the form of their increased irritability, making the same space you take up unbearable, or as their literal dick bleeding.
"Yo Liv, has it ever happened when you're on the dot and trying to milk every minute of sympathy and then your manz one ups you with a sympathy period and his dick starts bleeding when you're giving him head?
Regretful soothing words dat you administer to someone else to supposedly make him feel better about a situation, but in reality you merely feel sorry for YOURSELF.
A classic "selfish sympathy" example, from an old "Peanuts" comic:
Schroeder, in exasperation at Lucy's pushy "over-attentiveness": Do you know what Beethoven never had?!
Lucy: What?
Schroeder, rantingly waving his arms above his head: Beethoven never had girls hanging on to his piano and bugging him about giving them presents!
Lucy, mildly shocked: He DIDN'T?! (pauses to ponder this fact) Poor Beethoven!
Used to describe the situation when a man gains weight around his belly while his wife/partner is pregnant with his baby.
‘Hey dude, you’re growing a belly! And you’re not even the pregnant one! A sympathy belly I guess?’