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I don't know why people find it funny

to make jokes at other people's expense. I know it has been a huge boomer thing to do. They made fun of Britney Spears, Justin Beiber, Anna Nichole Smith, Lorenna Bobbit, and many many others who they didn't bother to understand their situations, they just went for the low hanging fruit jokes.

America's Funniest Home Videos, Impractical Jokers, and a variety of other shows were created to point and laugh at other people's physical and mental traumas, as if somehow, those were up for comedy grabs.

The main theme of the jokes were completely devoid of empathy and compassion, laughing at the pain and emotional hurts. There was no putting one's self in the shoes of the object of the laughs.

We wonder where our comapssion and empathy have gone. Since I can remember, boomers have been proving time and time again they never had any to begin with. The pain and hurt of others is their Comedy Castle.
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We became what we became as feral Gen X'ers because of the of the selfishness of our boomer parents, their epidemic divorces breaking our homes.
FoxyQueen · 51-55, F
@NativePortlander1970 I'm okay with the divorces. It saved lives and prevented abuse.

But yeah, growing up as a Gen X, my parents had no idea who I was as a person because to them, I was never a person. I was just a thing that lived with them, only acknowledged when I did something wrong, or they were socially required to behave like parents in public. I was told I don't deserve luxuries and that they did because they were the adults.

Boomers don't seem to want to take accountability for the huge number of people they broke.
@FoxyQueen They broke a lot of us, that's why our peers taught their kids taught them to not respect the boomers, attack them the way they did, now we're seeing the end result of our resentments towards a parent, or both. I disagree on the divorces, they showed us that marriage is no longer sacred, that your partner isn't worth working things out like our grandparent's generation tried.