I think a lot of people weaponize their oversensitivity to get others to do what they want them to do.

I do think that it’s important to be sensitive to others, and I’m not trying to suggest that being insensitive should be the norm.

However, the extreme of that in the other direction is being so sensitive that you want others to adapt to you. This can be just as malicious as being insensitive.

I think what happened is that insensitive people were being awful, so sensitive people pushed back by taking sensitivity to an extreme, when they should have instead established a sort of baseline upon which all sensitivity could be reasonably measured, that way if someone is being oversensitive or insensitive then they can be judged based on how far from that baseline they are.

We shouldn’t just have to accept someone for being oversensitive. We should live our lives and let oversensitive people feel how they feel, and know that they’re wrong.