Why are Americans so freaking sensitive

Wowza, the comment section is a hot mess and I'm loving it

Also, someone in all of this said that I used the term "begs the question" incorrectly, can someone fill me in on it's correct usage/meaning?

Not american, nor gay, nor offended, but allow me to correct you:

"I do not agree with homosexuality but I still am friends with and love homosexual people despite me not agreeing with this lifestyle"

Homossexuality is not a lifestyle, it is the attraction for same sex people, and unattraction for other sex people. It is not a style or a culture or anything else, nor it is a personal choice, it is what that person is attracted to. Also either a person is gay or is not, there is nothing to agree on, it's pretty much a factual thing about that person. One may not like homossexual people, or, in your case, homossexuality in itself alone, either for religious beliefs or nurture or any other reason, but that's pretty much it.

The same thing happens in Europe.

IMO everyone is sensitive in some way. Every person has that one thing which will set them off and it isnt really exclusive to Americans.

Social media and smart phones let idiots have a loud voice

being gay isn't a choice, it's in no way a lifestyle

jupitteer said:

The same thing happens in Europe.

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Where? Me and mine have been everywhere in Europe. Look hard enough and you can find some overly nationalistic or person with pre twisted knickers anywhere but for all that the only ones I can wind up more consistently and easily than the Americans are the Chinese and the Japanese, and both of those you need to know something about them to do well. Americans you can do in English for and with a fairly broad selection of their society, which of course then turns it into a sport/competition between like minded people.

@FAST6191 You can find idiots in every society.

Way to much to read but i'll throw my hat into the ring anyways.
I don't think its Americans that are becoming pansies.... I think it's humans in general. This Political correctness culture just keeps expanding to the far ends of any topic. Here is an example: growing up, whenever i would misbehave and continue to misbehave, my dad would take a belt to my butt. Because of this, i have this strange mental illness called "respect for others." I was punished when i needed to be because sometimes sending a child to their room isn't a good enough punishment. I told some friends that this is the type of discipline i would show my children. They said that i was terrible that i would even hit a child.... There is a difference between "abuse" and "discipline." But apparently spanking your child when warranted is abuse. I don't get it.....

Anyways, i agree with you on everything, but PC culture is everywhere and we have to stop it.

i have this strange mental illness called "respect for others." I was punished when i needed to be because sometimes sending a child to their room isn't a good enough punishment. I told some friends that this is the type of discipline i would show my children

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WOW, I have this too.

But, yeah, my dad disciplined, me too, I don't wish that he didn't, I mean.
How else is a child supposed to learn? I mean, Like you said, Sometimes putting a child in their room isn't enough.

There is a fine line between discipline and Abuse.

To slightly modify a saying from Descartes: "I am insulted, therefore I am"

I think that's one part of the story. It simply makes a portion of people feel important and alive. However, this is far from exclusive to US Americans, nor is it any new. The internet might make it more visible.

I don't like the sensitivity either, but in reality it is already a giant step forwards from what humans used be like. We used (and still do to be fair. In some parts more so than others) beat and murder the crap out of each over the silliest, most retarded things and hurt feelings, opinions that differed.

Adultery - Stoning for you, social exclusion
Look at someone strange - Hit in the face
Say God doesn't exist, earth is flat, anything really that touched the sensitive feelings of religious people - burned
Step on someone's land - shot dead
Stole an apple - chop off the hand
Hurt the sensitive eyes of proper straight people by holding hands with a dude (if you're a dude yourself) - lashes, stoning, death, prison, social exclusion.
Not liked by your neighbour for any silly reason - burned as a witch
Hurt the familiy's "pride" - death
Burn a random book originally written more than a thousand years ago - death

...and the list could go on and on. And now suddenly we're supposedly oversensitive by complaining on the internet instead of straight up murdering folks over our own silly hurt feelings, opinions and pride? No, Sir, humans used to be batshit crazy sensitive. What we currently have might get a bit tiresome at times, but it's a hell of an improvement as far as dealing with our sensitivity goes.

“Don’t be a dinophobe. It takes all colors to make a rainbow.



Except black. There’s no black in a rainbow.”
-Vinny
Just to trigger people. You’re right though, people are so sensitive these days
EDIT: Oh, and this is the video I pulled the quote from:
https://youtu.be/UxTMtJUh9Uk

The color black, artistically speaking, isn't a color at all, it's the absence of color and light. And grey is neutral, while the color white is the sum of all colors *shrug*.

Hot damn, where are the postmodernists on this when you need entertainment?

Millennials were pampered by Gen x. They look up to the gen x for their fight for social equality and their anti-authority culture. Unfortunately most of the fights have been fought and won, so they cling to very specific ideologies and fight amongst themselves over nonsense. Eventually being unable to distinguish between their identity and their opinions.

Just saw this and thought I'd post this here since why not.

Yo man, this comment thread is stupid yo.

We all up in here like animals.

It's all just pure selfishness. Only considering things in your own favour is what american way was/is all about. Looking out for #1, yourself.

It's not an American thing. I know we catch a lot of shit for good reason, but this is everywhere. Look at gbatemp alone. People from everywhere get hateful over nothing.