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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.
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!
An unopened/unused beverage (usually in a can or bottle) that was intended for drinking but gets put back in the refrigerator and swapped for a cold one later.
Before going to bed, Michael grabbed a can of cola and took it with him. When he woke up the next morning he took the sympathy soda downstairs and put it back in the fridge and went to a coffee shop.
The crumbs one leaves in a bag of chips that is not theirs, so they don't feel bad about eating the entire bag.
"Do you have any chips left?"
"Nah, just some sympathy crumbs Julie left."
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?