Fawkes2d ago
Adrianna Tan
Sometimes I feel sorry for people who say ‘you’re too emotional’ as an insult. Imagine growing up with a world view that tells you feelings and emotions are weakness, and that people with feelings and emotions are not to be trusted. How broken that must be. But I don’t feel sorry for them.
Mar 23 at 4:27amWeb
Show threadMedea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️2d ago
@skinnylatte
Like a stained glass window shattered with a crowbar
Show threadPatrick Hadfield2d ago
@MedeaVanamonde @skinnylatte that is simultaneously a beautiful and a hideous simile. I think that will haunt me all day!
Show threadRick d Card2d ago
@skinnylatte People like that are locked into a paradigm that is destroying the world. A world where the civilisation has much knowledge, discoveries and technology but, in order to be whole, healthy and wise we also need spiritual and emotional growth.
Show threadAnders von Hadern 🐦‍🔥2d ago
@skinnylatte I guess they become the ones warning of survivors because they are strong (they have and handle their feelings) and can be trampled on.
Show threadHGourlayUCL2d ago
@skinnylatte Everyone has emotions. Some of the "you're too emotional" people are currently leaking their anger into wars and other violence. #emotions
Show threadWhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮2d ago
@skinnylatte Ooh yes. Bringing up the rear with "you think too much".
Show threadCorvid Crone1d ago
@skinnylatte People who say this do not like having it said to themselves. Most of the people I've personally met who say this are much more concerned about forcing their subordinates into performing pleasantness or excusing themselves for the way their own actions affect others.
Show threadCorvid Crone1d ago
@skinnylatte like, they have no problem demonstrating their own emotions because those are justified. They don't hold themselves to the same stiff upper lip standards they hold others to.
Show threadBen 🏴‍☠️1d ago
@skinnylatte On the other hand, maudlin displays of emotion usually don't help make stressful situations any easier to deal with. At least not in my experience.
Show threadSara Joy 18h ago
@ben @skinnylatte yes and no. In my experience the stressful situations are probably caused by someone acting out instead of letting their emotions bring some catharsis.
Show threadSeiðr17h ago
@skinnylatte I am convinced that those people usually confuse being emotional with being controlled by own emotions and usually end up being the latter when you don't agree with them.