7 Replies to “Suicidal Empathy Poster Girl”

  1. I know it’s caught on, but I really wish the term “suicidal empathy” hadn’t been coined. It’s a terrible description for what’s actually happening here. These women – and it is almost always women – do not have any empathy, suicidal or otherwise.

    What they’re doing is just the age-old game of status-seeking within the female herd, competing to be the queen bee via social shaming and ostracism. “Empathy” is just the tactic, the motivation is intrasexual competition. This should be obvious to anyone who’s ever spent any time around large groups of women. Dickens referred to this as “telescopic philanthropy”; it’s been around even longer, the primary adherents of the Catharist heresy were aristocratic noblewomen.

    Watch the movies Mean Girls, Saved! and any episode of Keeping Up Appearances and it will be obvious what’s going on here.

    1. Dickens coined the term “telescopic philanthropy” to mock the Victorian women (and men) who tried to raise money and awareness of poor black people in “Boola Boola”.
      His main ironic point was…
      Those ‘woke’ Victorians looked telescopically afar while many Oliver Twists were ignored right in their faces.
      It is an abiding pattern, and why Dickens is da bomb.
      Read about his “circumlocution office” from Little Dorrit, and thus understand government.
      Sorry…I am an old school English guy.

  2. In 1974. Yes, 1974 … a new girl started at my HS. To say she was unattractive would be a compliment. In fact she was quite gross (sorry, I am not that shallow a person). But her looks, her weight, and her appearance were all tragic … made worse by no effort on her part except to exaggerate her … differences.

    Her first move? She went out for the football team. She was allowed … because there was no equivalent sport for females (we still made that distinction in 1974). Yeah, that didn’t last long for her. We accepted no pretenders on our football team … male or female. She soon quit.

    Her next move? She showed up to school wearing a t-shirt that read: “I am more than just a womb.” As if her womb was in any danger of fertilization. It was not much admired. So she made active choices to put herself in everyone’s faces rather than just going about her business. No, it did not go well for her from then on. She was mercilessly mocked and derided. Her choice. Our choice.

    Of course all her behavior is now sanctioned, and protected by school boards. Zero-tolerance anti-bullying rules would have expelled our entire football team. And she would have been praised as a something something warrior …

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