I am so sick of these idiots who think they can justify any bad action ever on past trauma. Your feelings don’t trump everyone’s else’s feeling just because you had some experience you consider damaging. No human has ever lived and not had trauma. Society doesn’t need to tear down any useful societal norm to accommodate your perception of what is “required” to address your traumas. Therapy speak and self diagnosis is a real problem - especially for people who seem to think they matter more than anyone else.

Lmao I literally have to check my phone and text right now because of….*rolls dice* COVID trauma.

These are the people who are literally going to go feral when they break their phone for the last time and can't afford a new one, when there is some kind of power or internet brown or blackout.

Industrialized society as we know it is breaking down, and these people are literally hopelessly addicted to and dependant on their phones.

People tend to freak out, be a bit high strung, during withdrawls.

Oh, right, and we can also see here that they seem to be just actually mentally incapable of abstracting to the point of realizing that their actions can cause negative effects to those around them.

But they are very good at rationalizing excuses for themsleves and avoiding any accountability for their actions.

And... thats them with their fix.

Like I said, feral.

The irony of invoking COVID during this debate, when not only were theaters a great way to contract that disease, but the same degree of selfishness on display here is one reason why it persisted as long as it did.

I used to go to alamo drafthouse, where they absolutely will kick people out for being disruptive. I think the other theater near me is similar.

I haven't gone to the movies in a while because of covid and then unemployment, but I don't think I'd go to a basic theater if I did go.

Kick them out of the theater. If it's too much "trauma" then it's time to go home and re-evaluate your life. For real.

Terminally online people are amazing...

In my experience phones are exacerbating trauma more than soothing it, I type from my phone

I have extreme light sensitivity and ADHD. A phone screen is like a lighthouse in a theater

My hometown theatre had people taking selfies with the flash on. You couldn't get them kicked out.

People using their phones is pretty far down the list of things that make me avoid movie theaters.

Ask more ice with your drink. To throw towards the cold hearted people that don't care about others trying to enjoy the movie.