Are people getting more sensitive these days?

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I’m a sensy- a sensitive guy. I’m not one of those militant self centered folks that get upset about my meals not being culturally sensitive, if that’s what you mean. I know plenty of them, though.
 
In the modern world, there is no right to life, but an absolute right not to be offended.

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I believe we seem more sensitive because we are interacting with each other human to human, face to face, less and less. We are becoming less able to deal with people unless it is on the phone/texting, computer, etc… My kids don’t go into banks or convenience stores and interact with people unless they have to. They go to the drive through and pay at the pump. In department stores there are self check out machines(which I would need help with anyway). We are evolving into a society of beings that can’t communicate.
So now when we have to try to interact with an actual human we can’t deal with it. The machines have taken over, just not the way we thought they would. How depressing is that?
 
The millennial generation seem to go out of their way to find offense in everyday life. It makes me sad when I witness it.
 
It’s just the SJW’s and some of the other liberals associated with them. They’re just a bunch of cry babies.
 
I try not to take anything personally and also try to avoid offending people. However, I am not sure that is always such a good thing. For example, I enjoy going to movies and the most interesting characters have passion, and they make mistakes.

I don’t agree with this “me generation” characterization modern youth. In many areas, American society is much harder now than when I finished high school. Higher education costs and health care costs for example have soared in the U.S. compared to other countries.
Terrible educational costs have been dropped on our youth that survive bankruptcy. So until our youth gets the same opportunities available elsewhere, I don’t think it is fair to call people sensitive or selfish.

And although pretending to be “poised” is something I had drummed into me, I encourage others to be yourself and follow your own passion (safely). That is what I am doing as I am looking at a couple different ideas, and getting feedback to help me decide which one to pursue. I learn the most from people who follow their own paths, not my path.

Of course, be open to God because He is the one who really has your back. And, it is nice to know that He is the one who is in charge, and all I have to do is look for ways to ease the burdens of others, not add to them. I was fortunate growing up that my parents just supported me in charting my own course, as opposed to following in their footsteps. I try to do the same as best as I can.

Now, I am focused on writing and inventing, so hopefully that will not offend anyone. If anyone teaches me anything about people or life, you helped my writing. Teaching me about science or a problem that needs solving in my field, helps my inventing.
 
I think our society has become too sentimentalist. People feel that their “feeling” trump what used to be moral common sense. Also, people think with their feelings instead of rationally, and they are more likely to transform their feelings into facts. Because I feel this way, it must be right.

I have also noticed is someone (I am thinking about a couple of family members) is quick to say that you hurt my feelings when defending a topic involving more law. I think it’s meant as a conversation stopper too, but I cannot assess the extent of the hurt feelings. More and more when I try to justify that my SAHM mom job is just as important as working full time, I am labeled a bully. The other party gets offended and attacks.

This has led me to avoid such people, who seem to be buying more into the “if it feels good do it” classification. Then the rationalization starts. We try to stay very well grounded. It’s been getting harder and harder.
 
Life **may **be more difficult for the current young generation (contrary to popular sentiment, youth was never meant to be easy and fun, there were always hardships and challenges). But that doesn’t explain the explosion in super-sensitivity.

“Thinking with the feelings” is somewhat of an oxymoron. Feelings have to a great extent replaced thinking. And the current Facebook culture makes it easy to be deluged with feeling in a thought-free context.

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I have always been sensitive. What’s changed is that I was taught that my being sensitive is generally my issue, not someone else’s. There’s a balance. Unless someone steps over certain bounds, I was taught to try to ignore things that offend me.

One thing that greatly offends me is “Drag Queens” on stage as entertainment. It hits me as a mockery of womanhood. It feels to me like a form of “blackface”, except society no longer tolerates white people made up with black-face on stage. Men acting as caricatures of women is highly offensive to me–and I believe anyone who is not offended by it is insensitive. While it offends me deeply and while I wish it would stop, I don’t file lawsuits nor do I stage demonstrations against this offensive behavior.

People who take offense these days sometimes file lawsuits or organize demonstrations against whoever or whatever offended them. Bullies are fought against–and in turn, bullies use these same methods to fight against things by claiming that things they don’t like are “offensive”. I find that offensive too! The bullies have turned the tables and are now using “sensitivity” as a weapon!

No one rewarded me for being sensitive when I was growing up. Now, people are not only rewarded, but insensitive bullies (using methods and courts that were designed to protect the weak from abuse) to foist their offensiveness on the rest of us. I’m not being oversensitive when I say that’s offensive.
 
gardenswithkids said:
I have always been sensitive. What’s changed is that I was taught that my being sensitive is generally my issue, not someone else’s. There’s a balance. Unless someone steps over certain bounds, I was taught to try to ignore things that offend me.

One thing that greatly offends me is “Drag Queens” on stage as entertainment. It hits me as a mockery of womanhood. It feels to me like a form of “blackface”, except society no longer tolerates white people made up with black-face on stage. Men acting as caricatures of women is highly offensive to me–and I believe anyone who is not offended by it is insensitive. While it offends me deeply and while I wish it would stop, I don’t file lawsuits nor do I stage demonstrations against this offensive behavior.

People who take offense these days sometimes file lawsuits or organize demonstrations against whoever or whatever offended them. Bullies are fought against–and in turn, bullies use these same methods to fight against things by claiming that things they don’t like are “offensive”. I find that offensive too! The bullies have turned the tables and are now using “sensitivity” as a weapon!

No one rewarded me for being sensitive when I was growing up. Now, people are not only rewarded, but insensitive bullies (using methods and courts that were designed to protect the weak from abuse) to foist their offensiveness on the rest of us. I’m not being oversensitive when I say that’s offensive.
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And what is key, it is starting young, there is an ever increasing lack of discipline in school, and the bullies continue. What I learned from my talk I give in October is that the sensitive child’s feeling should be handled first. Second, the school should then deal with the reasonings behind the bullying. What should not happen is for sensitive kids to “toughen-up” and for the bully to “knock it off.” The sensitive child may have a background that makes it tough to change and the bully may be going trough difficult times at home–verbal/physical abuse, parental divorce, family discord, etc.

This is what I am seen working with all types of special needs children. There needs to be understanding and empathy on the parties involved in the conflict.
 
Yes I think so very much.

This politically correct culture truly is a modernist ideology of attacking anything to do with traditional Catholic family values and sexual morality.

Also society has become more secular and irreligious which has created a selfish mentality in people today
 
styrgwillidar said:
Yes, there’s a huge contingent of SOPOs (Society of the Perpetually Offended) who seem to look for an excuse to take offense, then use that as justification to vilify, verbally abuse and shout down anyone they disagree with.
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Follow the money.

There’s plenty of money in playing the victim card in today’s society. The SOPOs can’t earn a living legitimately (who’d hire someone who’s perpetually offended?) so the offense is a way to make money.

There are certain big names who do this for a living. There are paid protesters. There are political groups who have lots of money and do this.

Its all about the benjamins.

If only we had a working job market where people could actually get and keep a job in the private sector. Nope. Politics = money.
 
I think at least some of it is initially well-intentioned.

I remember having to explain to some colleagues (after getting to know them), that making jokes about women philosophers to the only woman in the philosophy department, while she’s new, is not okay behavior. They didn’t see it as anything more than a funny joke, but for me as a new person it definitely made me second-guess how welcome I was.

In my mother’s day there would have been a lot more pressure to shut up and accept those jokes. It’s not a bad thing there to recognize that jokes putting down other groups of people aren’t really a good idea. It’s just that sometimes the idea gets taken too far.
 
It may also be that decades and decades of sit-coms in which both adults and kids have smart-alec replies at the ready for every comment are having an effect. If the conversations in my home had been like the conversations in most sitcoms it would have been a sign of a very dysfunctional family.
 
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