Did you get more sensitive after havin' babies?

It probably took him all day to figure out how to reply.

I thought from the title your post would be better in research or TIO.
A question you could only ask on the internet.

MacAllister said:

I'd have whupped your ornery little butt, Zach.

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but with a latex glove, so as not to get teh aids...

You are a very bad man. When I get to China, I'm going to pin you down and pluck out your nose hairs in clumps with my pointiest tweezers until you beg for mercy. (Then I'm going to boil them in bleach, you cootie-ridden thing.)

And I love your brother's response. He's a bad man too.

I would have killed you.

It goes without saying that I hope you never have to really tell him you have AIDS.

That whole crying wolf thing, you know.


It's akin to my mother telling me she has alzheimers. How funny would that be?

In all seriousness, I lost a friend to AIDS, so I don't find that funny. Of course, that was in the early 90's, and there are many more treatment options these days.

And to seriously answer your question: after the birth of our first child, my husband turned into a total mush monster. Cries at commercials, and holy crap, don't let a child be sad or hurt on television or he'll bawl like a little girl. So yeah, kids make some people more sensitive.

(and your brother is hilarious)

Did you get more sensitive after havin' babies?

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Well, let me tell you...wait *sob* ...darn that Oprah! Okay, so I was gonna say, it really does...ahh, the Geico guy looks like Grandma! *weep* I'm still a man, dammit! Darn these onions! *weep*

I haven't changed a bit.

It did make me more sensitive. I can't stand reading or watching anything where something bad happens to a child.

I guess there are certain things that are inherently not very funny, even if we know it's a joke. Diseases such as AIDS or cancer, etc. because a lot of people have lost loved ones to them. Death in a family (I suppose "my grandma just died" is a tad better than "my son just died"). Sensitive subjects such as suicide, rape, etc. Some people like gallows humor. Some simply find it tasteless and disrespectful. I guess you just have to know the person.

And yes, I am going to whup your hiney with a latex glove...

maestrowork said:

I guess there are certain things that are inherently not very funny, even if we know it's a joke. Diseases such as AIDS or cancer, etc. because a lot of people have lost loved ones to them. Death in a family (I suppose "my grandma just died" is a tad better than "my son just died"). Sensitive subjects such as suicide, rape, etc. Some people like gallows humor. Some simply find it tasteless and disrespectful. I guess you just have to know the person.

And yes, I am going to whup your hiney with a latex glove...

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I'm gallows humour all over. A male friend once made a joke about being raped by a badger (don't ask) and I swear, even though he was dark skinned, he blanched! H realised he'd said something sick and apologised over and over again.

Of course I forgave him, once I'd finished peeing my pants laughing. He was convinced I'd never speak to him again and was surprised that I was tickled by his joke.

Black humour...gotta love it.

I have a friend who told her mother on April Fool's Day that Bill Oddie was dead.

Now that's just taking it too far.

I don't. But you better not catch the AIDS, my boy. I'll finish you off long before I let some pesky mutating virus do the honors.

I love you.

i always take great comfort in the old adage "fuck em if they can't take a joke".

My dad and me do the aids thing.

Hey! Not like in an incestuous way. Now that would be sick...

But, if I get a cold, he'll text me to say, "Don't bring your bloody aids round my house." Or if I forget something on my shopping list, he'll say, "Brain aids. You got t'aids in the brain."

Fuckwit.

I've only gotten callouser and callouser, but I think that's time not babies. When they were babies, I was a bit delicate from the lunatic pharmacist in my brain hurling chemicals around.

In seriousness though, I think there is a general tendency to be more sensitive to some things as life progresses. Most people grow acutely aware of how much they have to lose as life's milestones stack up.

I'm not more sensitive....but the weirdest things can make my kids cry.

So I keep a list for use later.

trumancoyote said:

It all depends on the audience, nay-sayers.

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I did say "you have to know the person." I say some of the darnest things, but only if I know it wouldn't offend that person. However, it doesn't mean "AIDS jokes" are funny on the whole. It just means that your particular audience will find it funny. I have seen comedians bomb so badly on stage because he got the wrong audience -- meanwhile, I was dying laughing inside.

I am usually okay with Chinese/racist/"They don't speak good English" jokes, for example. But catch me on a bad day... yeah, I can be sensitive. And I do hate people when they say "Oh, don't get sensitive." Well, you don't own my emotions. So fuck off.

I can honestly say my sensitivity level is off the charts since the monkeys invaded. I used to be front row center for any gladiatorial-type sport (bull-riding, hockey, CourTV, C-Span) and now knowing that the whack-job who I once found so amusing was someone's baby, I can't find the humor in it anymore.

The flip-side of bringing life into this world is the clear understanding of that life's end.

screenmom said:

The flip-side of bringing life into this world is the clear understanding of that life's end.

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Exactly. I was absolutely INFURIATED last night flipping through the channels and seeing on a news station that some teacher's husband KILLED her 18-year-old lover. Now, granted, I don't know the full story because I missed the introduction to the segment. But come ON. As a father himself, I couldn't believe he so callously ended the life of another parent's son. It just blows me away. Er...okay...that pun was SO not intended!

A member of my family just died and it's still hard for to watch reality TV when they showed people getting hurt or killed on camera. I was like, "Why am I watching this?" and even "Why are they showing us this? Are we THIS morbidly curious as a culture?" My sensitivity level certainly went up a few notch since the funeral.

I guess I have no sensitivity at all.

A friend told me that her great-grandmother had died and I burst out laughing. Nerves, I guess. Wondering what to say. Anyway, the first thing she said was, "Oh thank god someone else laughed; my mother told me I was sick for giggling when I heard the news!"

Birds of a feather and all that...