>>28161086That's just using cringe as a buzzword. Cringe is an actual physiological response that describes something beyond, 'whatever I didn't like.'
It's a sign of emotional immaturity to still cringe at things, for the same reason we try to 'kill the part of us that cringes,' Not cringing at things external to ourselves usually suggests that underlying anxiety of our self has been addressed, or we have otherwise reached a significant marker in the development of our mental and emotional maturity.
When a person actually cringes they are having a severe physiological response to something.
From the description of Vicarious Embarrassment on Wikipedia:
Individuals who experience social anxiety in their own life may experience the familiar symptoms of blushing, excess sweating, trembling, palpitations, and nausea. Other, less severe symptoms may include cringing, looking away, or general discomfort.
Seriously, actual literal cringing involves how we react to outside stimuli because of a self-anxious condition or personality, and in it's proper definition necessarily includes a reaction to something other than ourselves.
From ifeelonline:
Cringing is a colloquial label used to denote an emotion, of the family of embarrassment, but with some peculiarities. It is the feeling of discomfort, inadequacy, embarrassment, rejection and disapproval that we feel in our own skin before an act of another person that we consider laughable, deplorable or pathetic.
It's an understandable mistake, and not really a mistake, since 'cringe' has entered mainstream use and is obviously used in a much different way, that is, the derived meaning is valid, but, significantly different from what you are literally trying to describe.
It is simply an empathetic response to the anxiety of another, although in a typical anxious fashion, the slight, or anxiety of the other, can be imagined and not real. It also better fits the word empathy than sympathy specifically because it meets the criteria of empathy that sympathy doesn't. With empathy, unlike sympathy, you are feeling WITH someone, perhaps their emotion, rather than just feeling for someone.
Vicarious embarrassment is actually the term coined and made a concept to specifically describe cringe in the way outlined here. That of empathetic embarassment or anxiety to someone who does not actually feel embarrassment (as empathy would usually imply), because the anxiety the other person feels in this manner is consciously a projection onto one's own self, or imagined onto the other person).
Schizos are going to go all out about the discord-breaking containment, and they're going to use 'cringe' as an epic wedge to make everyone miserable and fight. So thanks Miru, really cool, good job at not starting drama as you said.
