To feel so upset about jo cox?

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I didn't know of her before today but this news has devestated me for some reason. Watching the news I couldn't stop crying.

I just keep thinking of her poor kids.

Righteous?

The OP stated she was couldn't stop crying :\
That I could understand if she knew the person she's sobbing buckets over. As, Im assuming, she doesn't. That to me is either very over dramatic/attention seeking or she has a problem.

If you think the thread is so ridiculous and attention seeking (awful phrase) you could always just not post on it?

But there you go, flippinada. She posted it, people responded. Like on a social networking site

Pardon flippin? I wanted to post my opinion so I did.

No it doesn't as you well know Navy. The OP however sounded very OTT. Hence me asking if there was anything else wrong.

I did similar, Navy. But I didn't deem my reaction worthy of its own thread in AIBU, as if I was the first person ever to feel like that, or that my feelings were somehow so out there that the question Am I Being Unreasonable was in any way relevant or fitting to a tragic death.

It's not necessarily over dramatic/attention seeking or problematic when people respond to events and stories in the media in very individual ways. The interpretation of images/words/events happens in a context. Sometimes A has had a bad day, B has a vulnerable child, C has had memories triggered of personal loss, D feels any sad story is the last straw, E feels meh, and F feels yeah sad, what's next then? All of these could be very normal reactions. C is probably not seeking attention and F is probably not a heartless bitch. Myriad interpretations and reactions are possible and understandable.

My profession involves researching people's interpretations of media events/images/stories and I am never unsurprised by the genuine range of genuine (and sometimes startling) reactions that people have to "distant" figures, or distant suffering. I recall a Norwegian man's completely unexpected emotional outburst after the killing of a school full of children in Peshawar, Pakistan. He wasn't a dad, and I was surprised and admittedly a bit sceptical. Till I finished my interview.

You're probably right, Navy. Should Jo Cox's death be couched in terms of what some Internet Random feels the impact on their own life has been?

Trivial, much?

She could have talked about it on one of the other threads, like many of us did.
Not reduce it to "I can't stop crying" and asking if that's a bad thing. That's where Worra and others came in, I believe. Somehow it's been turned round to not letting posters talk about it, which is incorrect. Talk about it all you like, but if you're turning the spotlight round to You instead then don't expect not to be pulled up on it.

This thread does no harm , who said it did?

What is annoying is the need to start I'm so upset threads when numerous threads were there already, in abundance.

I've been here a few years and rarely kick out and knock another poster but the 'I'm so upset' threads when someone dies ( who they never knew ) really piss me off.

We're all shocked by awful news, it's upsetting but stay in control of your emotions and stop crying.

Another one here very affected by this news. I think it's watching the reactions of those she actually knew such as her neighbours on the Thames and her constituents, they were visibly and genuinely upset. The fact that she was an MP and she had that effect on people is testament to her personality. And I guess we can relate to her as a working mum. I cried too. So sad. Funny how you can get more upset over the news of a death like that more than the news of a family member

A family member who isn't estranged, Daily? That would be bizarre, even with an understanding of catharsis etc.

YANBU - not only is it tragic for a mother to die under these circumstances, but it hits at the heart of democracy without which we are on a hiding to nothing.

Not reduce it to "I can't stop crying"

But that's not what she said. She said "Watching the news, I couldn't stop crying." Which means just during the news. Which could have been just 5 or 10 minutes.

Why distort what she said? Or didn't you read it properly in the first place?

You're projecting your own ideas about the OP, in order to justify your view.

Well yes beetroot - and so did I. And no doubt OP posted for similar reasons. And I bet she wishes she hadn't bothered.

"can't stop crying" to me means someone is in floods of tears which when that concerns a stranger is very OTT. Im not "projecting" at all, I suspect she was though.

YANBU

It's a tragedy for our whole country and also a very personal tragedy that we can easily relate to. She was a mum with young children still. It hits you on all levels. It's dreadful.

I think a stranger being so OTT and making it about themselves shameful.