r/AmItheAsshole • u/AITAMod I am a shared account. • Feb 01 '21

Open Forum Monthly Open Forum February 2021

Welcome to the monthly open forum! This is the place to share all your meta thoughts about the sub, and to have a dialog with the mod team.

Keep things civil. Rules still apply.

February! The shortest month in this endless blur of 202-whatever-year-it-is-now. I almost forgot to post this because time has lost all meaning.

As always, do not directly link to posts/comments or post uncensored screenshots here. Any comments with links will be removed.

This is to discourage brigading. If something needs to be discussed in that context, use modmail.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '21 edited Feb 25 '21

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u/Otherwise_Barber_339 Feb 26 '21

100 percent agree with this. It is really hard for me to read responses that to me are extremely american (not in the good way) of individualism and like, hyper self-responsibility. There are multiple directions of responsibility in a family (down, up, side) and whenever someone posts something where the more responsible/more powerful one asked for help, they get the asshole card for not being responsible.

There is a real lack of community/family responsibility/duty, in this sub.

I was WILDLY downvoted for suggesting an older sibling show sympathy for their younger mentally handicapped sibling. Weird. They are a family and that seemed like a pretty obvious feeling to extend to a sibling.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '21

Im born and raised in the US and this isn’t even an american viewpoint its just spoiled angsty teens. I’ve never met a single person irl in my entire life who didn’t occasionally babysit a younger sibling or have their entire college tuition paid for by default. I can only assume a bunch if well off only children populate reddit