The industry that is in Mobile, Louisiana, or Florida in September for the hurricanes and in the Midwest in the spring for the tornados. They're not even around long enough to give a fuck about anybody, if another hurricane hit a few weeks later in the Bahamas, they'd already be in the Bahamas with a new story, a new group of people they care so much about, and a new fundraising and rescue effort underway.
The grief/tragedy/sympathy/hope industry is not on your side, they are not your friend. They are just the people that control your supply chain (they have all the power) if you end up fucked. They are the same people that control the weapons, military, government, industry, and first responders.
by The Original Agahnim December 14, 2021

“You’ll get no sympathy from me! If you want sympathy, look in the dictionary between s**t and syphilis!”
by CCKat January 30, 2021

by Not Timothy May 9, 2013

Hopefully instead of cops everywhere reacting with rage over the news about deaths of young fellow officers, they treat their lives as people treated the life of George Floyd, even if these guys didn't look like you, they were just people that wanted to improve the lives of the people around them and they were happy to be alive trying to do that when they were alive. The grief tragedy sympathy hope industry tries to make horror or shock stories to headline the news, and really that does more harm than anything else to what these folks were really about, to focus on things like death all the time.
People that look like anybody can end up like these New York City cops, but how often do you hear much about their lives besides a few seconds on the news, then there is another story. The grief tragedy sympathy hope industry might want you to feel a certain way (sad, angry) about something, but they don't tell you that you don't have to if you don't want to.
by The Original Agahnim January 24, 2022

When your cis male partner or friend has a symbolic period (when you as a cis female have yours).
A sympathy period can surface in the form of their increased irritability, making the same space you take up unbearable, or as their literal dick bleeding.
A sympathy period can surface in the form of their increased irritability, making the same space you take up unbearable, or as their literal dick bleeding.
"Yo Liv, has it ever happened when you're on the dot and trying to milk every minute of sympathy and then your manz one ups you with a sympathy period and his dick starts bleeding when you're giving him head?
by friendofafragilefrenulum May 22, 2021

An industry that pretends to be on your side, rooting for you instead of the events that make the industry possible (storms, crime, death, accidents, bad news).
by Solid Mantis October 9, 2020
