I hate when websites use the terms “Item arrives before Mother’s/Father’s Day”.
Makes me want to cry, thinking about the alternate timeline where I have a normal life and no depression/anxiety.
I hate when websites use the terms “Item arrives before Mother’s/Father’s Day”.
Makes me want to cry, thinking about the alternate timeline where I have a normal life and no depression/anxiety.
What exactly are you trying to do with this comment?
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.
In an ideal world, these holidays would be divorced from making money, and if not that, shops would at least allow you to select what holidays you want to appear in their marketing material.
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 I’m dumb for being sad about holidays that only exist to sell cards. You’ve cured me!”
Sounds like you can’t handle multiple facets of a topic at the same time.
What i can or can’t handle isn’t relevant or what I’m talking about…
I’m telling you it sounds ignorant and insensitive
It sounds ignorant and insensitive to suggest that companies should not monetize and advertise potential trauma-triggering holidays or at least allow users to disable that monetization/advertising?
Do you read what you and I write? Or do you just want to be outraged at all costs?
I’m not suggesting that, and it didn’t seem to me like OP was either
Then you didn’t read what was written.
I did, nothing about people no longer using the terms was said in the OP. Please don’t resort to wild claims of lying like that. They just said it’s anxiety inducing and makes them want to cry. You can infer that they’d prefer it not to be used, but they didn’t actually make any demands.