Watching extremely sad tv shows or movies, listening to extremely sad music, or thinking terribly sad thoughts to force yourself to cry as a release of built of sadness.
I watched Crash last night and cried for two hours because I had so much shit going on in my life I needed some emotional masturbation.
The act of watching heart wrenching documentaries or reading about celebs having miscarriages to indulge in such feelings for self gratifying reasons while having the safety net of knowing it’s happening to them and not you.
Oh i see your watching that show ‘ miscarriage- my story’ , pure emotional masterbation, a horrible thing to do.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)