It does explain why Amazon (and every other company and by extension large parts of society) entirely focusses on “buy X for your mother/father right now” instead of even acknowledging hardships and difficult situations (abusive parents, dead parents, parents with dead children/miscarriages, people who want to have children but can’t, parents with difficult relationships with their children, …).
There’s no room for subtlety and compassion when money can be made.
True, but who asked for any of that? This post is venting about how the holidays remind them of abuse, not asking why the holidays exist. What’s supposed to be OP’s reaction?
“Oh, you’re right, i guess im dumb for being sad about holidays that only exists to sell cards. You’ve cured me!”
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It does explain why Amazon (and every other company and by extension large parts of society) entirely focusses on “buy X for your mother/father right now” instead of even acknowledging hardships and difficult situations (abusive parents, dead parents, parents with dead children/miscarriages, people who want to have children but can’t, parents with difficult relationships with their children, …).
There’s no room for subtlety and compassion when money can be made.
irmoz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True, but who asked for any of that? This post is venting about how the holidays remind them of abuse, not asking why the holidays exist. What’s supposed to be OP’s reaction?
“Oh, you’re right, i guess im dumb for being sad about holidays that only exists to sell cards. You’ve cured me!”
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sounds like you can’t handle multiple facets of a topic at the same time.
irmoz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What i can or can’t handle isn’t relevant or what im talking about…
Im telling you it sounds ignorant and insensitive