Hostility to anxious women with “advantages”

[WhiteTulipsWithEyes]

Something occurred to me yesterday. A university student with anxiety posted about something she was anxious about and many of the responses were unpleasant. I wondered if they would have been kinder if she hadn’t been a university student.

I remembered being a young graduate and receiving some very unpleasant responses myself when I was anxious or upset. The sense I received at the time was that my education was an enormous advantage and therefore I had no legitimate reason to be anxious.

Is this an element of misogyny?

I saw this thread and I understood her anxiety but think she was pretty unreasonable. People offered her solutions to the problem and she ignored them and then got the thread deleted.

I did not detect misogyny but I did detect people getting a bit tired of her 'can't do' attitude.

So I disagree. Absolutely nothing to do with being a graduate at all, in fact that's quite a weird take.

I’ve always sensed that some people respond very unsympathetically when another person is having an anxiety crisis. I have never been a male or another person, so I was just wondering whether there was an element of ageism or sexism towards young “girls” with degrees. Perhaps some people just don’t relate very well to other people’s anxiety and that is all it is.

@WhiteTulipsWithEyes without having seen the thread your talking about, I have to say that I disagree with your assumption that people are not sympathetic due to perceived privilege or misogyny is wholly incorrect.
So many young and older people (male/female, educated/uneducated) go on about their self diagnosed "anxiety" (when they really are just nervous) whilst refusing to help themselves in anyway, or take any practical steps to alleviate the symptoms that most people are getting sick of the attention seeking self-indulgent naval gazing bs.
The thing is when an entire section of society needs trigger warnings and safe spaces just to hear biological facts, historical truths or think words are literal violence, all because of their anxiety the rest of society loses all sympathy even for those who truly have anxiety (diagnosed by a medical professional not some Internet random).
Add to all of the above the fact that universities seem to be creating a generation of graduates who are bathed in woke bs and taught that everything is either traumatic or triggering and that hearing something that you disagree with is or allowing someone to say things that you disagree with is going to cause "literal genocide" (I'm not joking put it into Google search and see for yourself), you get normal people assuming that it's just another winny woke idiot and go with the suck it up buttercup option instead of looking at whether the person has a reason to be anxious or not.
Basically people have had enough of the professionally offended and anxious woke twats and the backlash is starting, we are seeing it in asd where so many people self-id as having asd (when they don't) that those of who do have a diagnosis are finding it harder and harder to get the adjustments we need due to everyone knowing someone who self-ids as autistic who doesn't need any adjustments 🙄 Unfortunately the same is happening with anxiety as we all know some idiot who has a victim complex who is always "anxious" and uses the same woke terms and wants the world to revolve around them and their "anxiety" that it's rapidly becoming a forgone conclusion that claims of anxiety are just self indulgent bs particularly from universities graduates. So no not privilege or misogyny just fed up people with lazy assumptions about wokisum

If it’s about the person who didn’t want to drive then yabu. The responses were giving advice which the OP clearly didn’t want. Anxiety manifesting as just steadfastly refusing to even consider trying something is what led to the response, IMO.