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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I think context is so important. I overheard a joke at work about cancer the week after I lost my mother to it, and quickly I realised the world wasn’t going to change just because I’d suffered a loss. It was going to go on turning, and that’s a good thing. Obviously, nobody meant to upset me, the person who told the joke didn’t know my circumstances. There was no hate or malice in it (it was a funny joke from what I remember), it’s just words. People need to harden their skin and stop being a slave to every sensitive subject. Own your problems, don’t let them own you. EDIT; before someone calls me on this, I know some events are much harder to cope with than others, but you can’t expect the world to change just because you can’t.
gpt
Agreed, but to build on your point, there's another layer of context. 

It's not reasonable to expect *the world at large* to change, but it is reasonable to expect the closest people in our world, who know our deepest circumstances, to make some degree of accommodations for us. 

I don't like the attitude of "I can rag on my friends and family as much as I want, about whatever I want, and if they don't like it they're just too sensitive."

I can and will say something like, "No, I don't want a standup comedy routine about the terrible way my college boyfriend died." And if the subject isn't dropped, I leave the room.