Are you fucking kidding me????

[dancing_nerd]

So, I'm crawling out of bed, for the first time in a week (in a month, really) ::insert super-hero montage music here:: and things are looking up.  Oh sure, I look like SHIT, and I don't feel all that great, but I can stand for more than 10 minutes without needing to take a 3 hour recovery nap, so I think things are going well.

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[tedeisenstein]

So, tell us how you really feel. . .

[dancing_nerd]

I just don't know what to do or say to be NICE to Eddie. I mean, he must feel so emasculated and I don't want to make it any worse by being overly-sympathetic, you know?

I mean these fuckers have been beating him down for years now, so the last thing I want to do is make him feel worse. But at the same time, I want to offer my support. I want to call him tomorrow, but I just don't know what to say....

[tedeisenstein]

"Hi. Want to have lunch?"

You can't sue his employers; you can't give him a job; you can't unemasculate him (if he truly feels like he has been); you can't do anything at all, really - except show him that you support him. Take him to lunch and let him blow off steam; take him to lunch to show him that people close to him still care about him; take him to lunch to be sociable.

You can't do anything else, really, but you can at least remind him that someone cares. That is occasionally the best thing to do.

(It need not be lunch; it could be dinner, or a movie, or a walk through a museum - it's not exactly what you wind up doing that counts, it's taking the time to spend time with him. Trust me. As a former and recovering depressed person, I can say this from experience: just being with someone, at times, helps enormously.)

[dancing_nerd]

And *how* am I supposed to do that from Nebraska??

It sucks

[azlarry]

unfortunately in this business day the good get eaten by the sharks.

[christieny]

No! That's not FAIR!!! How could they do this. I feel just AWFUL! :(