I already offered a couple reasons why it might affect someone. You can criticize me for “condescension”
I criticized you for the following:
You have a really limited understanding of human emotions and experiences beyond your own life if you think that’s the case.
Which was condescending. You assume quite a lot about me for hardly knowing me.
Weird to clarify when that’s exactly what I was talking about.
You claim anyone who cries at the comments are irrational and infantilized. You know literally nothing about these people other than that they cried at the comments. You don’t know why they cried, you don’t know what their relationship with Norm is like, you don’t know what their relationship with the Me Too movement is like. You don’t know if they have active tear ducts which leads to them crying easily, you don’t know if they’re tired or depressed or if something else was going on already and this just pushed them over the edge.
I’m not saying as a fact that them crying was not-silly and completely justified. I don’t know them or why they cried. I know I would never cry in that situation. But I’m not them, and I’m aware that there are reasons that could lead to them doing so. The fact that you cannot comprehend any possible scenario in which them crying is anything but silly and infantile, just goes to show me that you have an empathy problem.
Now, as to why you’re getting so worked up about such a silly thing, I’ll take a step back and apologize for calling you irrational. I don’t know what it is about this situation that’s affecting you so deeply and making you emotional, so it’s unfair for me to call you such. But that doesn’t mean I can’t disagree with you.