Chris and Pity -

[Spatchmo]

Anyone notice that the only way Chris ever tries to get any sort of attention or feedback from people is by trying to get them to feel sorry for him? Is that seriously the only way he knows how to get any kind of feedback? Like, he loves to play the victim and instead of trying to talk about how great his day was or how awesome his dogs are, he always only talks about how stressed or depressed he is, or how autistic and shy he is.

I think it's kind of amazing that he still hasn't figured out that people don't enjoy listening to whiners or people who want to be a victim of some sort. Anyway, this picture sums up what I am thinking about:

I would never want someone to use "pitiful" as an adjective to describe me. What's the attraction to it?

 

[Da Pickle Monsta]

Chris probably learned that "feeling bad=female attention" from cartoons. As far as using his sadness to manipulate others, he learned that from Barb.

 

[Spatchmo]

Chris probably learned that "feeling bad=female attention" from cartoons. As far as using his sadness to manipulate others, he learned that from Barb.

Ahh, yes... I always forget about the Barb factor.

 

[homerbeoulve]

The Pity card is the card that composes his deck in the game of Cards against Humanity.

 

[MrTroll]

Manipulating people into feeling bad for him is arguably one of the few things he has ever truly learned to do well in his life. It's also the reason why da trolls (not just online, but Snyder, Megan, Mary Lee Walsh, etc.) infuriate him so, being totally immune to his only weapon.

 

[Some JERK]

aside from his parents, pity is the only positive attention he's ever known.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

Manipulating people into feeling bad for him is arguably one of the few things he has ever truly learned to do well in his life.

See, I don't think he does do it well at all. It's just there seems to be some sort of stigma attached to calling self absorbed people out on their bullshit, especially if said person is autistic, so everybody just goes through the motions with him. When he's whining about shit, people are just doing their own versions of "hmm, yeah"

Chris is just too stupid to realise the difference between people pitying him and people patronising him.

 

[For The Internet]

Chris is extremely manipulative, he understands that pity gets him attention (especially from girls), so it's in his interests to get people to see him as pitiful. He doesn't have the intelligence or emotional maturity to understand why the attention pity brings is not something most people want. All he cares about is the attention. He doesn't understand that pity means people feel sorry for him, that people think his life is awful, that people don't believe he can ever break out of the life he has and be successful in any way, that people see him as mentally handicapped and of low intelligence. All that matters are the asspats.

Chris has always been rewarded by people's pity:

He got segments on the TV news that he probably never would have received if he hadn't been autistic.
His 'friends' at Manchester probably tolerated him out of pity
He got attention from his gal-pal Tiffany when he threw a hissy fit at graduation

And so on and so forth. For Chris, pity is profitable.

 

[Zim]

Pity has always been part of his plan. He thinks that if people feel sorry enough for him someone will come in and fix his life back to how he imagined highschool was. He wants to be just, if not more lazy as he is right now but with china and other "deserved" perks handed to him on a silver platter.

If his tard rage becomes too bad or too offensive then he can demonstrate his Autism Card quick draw.

 

[BillRiley]

Chris probably learned that "feeling bad=female attention" from cartoons. As far as using his sadness to manipulate others, he learned that from Barb.

Well, the thing is, Chris only knows that performing certain actions will garner him pity from other people. He doesn't know why this is so, since he has no idea at all what might be going on in other people's heads. But he's learned a few set routines that more-or-less work in this area. That's why Chris tries to elicit pity from Kacey's "dad" much in the same way he tries to elicit pity from his gal-pals.

TLR - Chris doesn't know why something works. He only know that it works.

 

[Pikonic]

Chris is a wee selfish when it comes to pity. He wants to be the receiver not the giver. No gay sex jokes please.

 

[applecat]

No gay sex jokes please.

Chris' sexuality is not a joke. It's people like you who make him afraid to be honest about who he is.

 

[Very Honest Content]

"Souch tender feelings...

HONOR ROLL!

Seriously, Chris understands, but doesn't want to believe, except in the rarest cases of it benefiting him, that he's a total loser. So he knows he's pitiful, just that he doesn't advertise that unless he can wring some sympathy out of it. Case in point:

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But here you can even hear him slip and admit to his HONEST and TRUE evaluation of himself:

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Yes, childhood life for him was one where you could engender much less pity for him, because you didn't expect any more of him that playing racing video games, you see.

(ETA: souch dang, dirty correct homonyms!)

 

[José Mourinho]

I send out this message to all people, especially the Trolls and Cyber-Bullies on the Internet.

I, Christian Weston Chandler, am guilty of a lot of things that have been mistakenly uploaded and leaked online; I have for a long time been stricken and made beyond crestfallen by the repercussions of my actions and words. And great mockery and egging has befallen me for years now, and it seriously needs to stop now. There are no "laughs" longer to be made at my expense, and the running gag is at the end of its tracks. It is better to Forgive and Forget, as told by Jesus, our lord, and is the way of our almighty God. So to everybody who has felt wronged with stuff I have done in the past, I am really, sincerely sorry. All I ask is for everybody's forgiveness and for everybody to forget my mistakes, errors, everything. Please, just forget about me in total; please, disband all online groups and individual hatreds against me; please, remove everything about me off of the Internet, your minds, and your hearts.

I think this one is the best example of Chris trying to get sympathy by pity.

 

[CatParty]

chris is one fool i do not pity

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

He doesn't understand that pity means people feel sorry for him, that people think his life is awful, that people don't believe he can ever break out of the life he has and be successful in any way, that people see him as mentally handicapped and of low intelligence.

More importantly than any of that: He doesn't understand that pity means people don't want to be a part of his life. Everyone sees that he is just a wellspring of negativity, he has nothing to offer but bitterness and resentment. The closer any person gets to him, the more drained they will be because he tries to suck happiness out of everyone. That is why he'll never get a girlfriend.

 

[Sakamoto]

Pity works well for children. Baby cries, Mommy comes and makes it better. Chris hasn't grown (mentally) beyond that.

 

[Venusaur]

As others have stated, the reason that Chris' employs pity so much is a combination of:
1-) Learned from the best! (Barb)
2-) It probably got him cuddles from his gal-pals.
3-) He believes all those shows where the pitiful down-in-luck loser gets the girls.

Now, pity can get you attention from girls, to certain degree. If the girl likes you and feels sorry for you, she might try to make you feel better or help.... The problem with this is that Chris doesn't realize that a friendship needs to occur before this. People don't have endless time and energy to dedicate to everyone that needs help. They'll dedicate it to whom they deem worthy of it: friends, family, people that appreciate the help.

Chris just isn't worthy of anyone's' time and energy at the moment.

Sure, Ana and Will might do the whole "Awww, it's okay Chris. You're a kind-hearted soul" over Facebook every time Chris cried out for pity, but in the end he doesn't have friends that would actually care enough to help.

The other point is that, even if they helped Chris would soon drive them away with his ungratefulness and inability to learn and change. Vivian-Gee's AIM chat is a beautiful example of it. Vivian kept trying to make him see how his behaviour was destructive, but all he could do was go: " *Sigh* My heard hurts. *Burps from stress*"

In the end Chris just wants to be babied and cuddled, and pity probably got him that when he was younger. That's why he keeps on trying the same routine. But he's not a kid anymore, he's an obese eccentric 30-year-old. Nobody, except maybe Barb, will give him cuddles and attention every time he goes " ". He just hasn't managed to realize this.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Was Chris really a pity-seeking child though? I think people just naturally pitied him for being an obvious extraordinary youth, he didn't need to whine for it. By all indications he was a fairly happy, oblivious individual up till PVCC.

 

[Ronichu]

Venusaur's got it mostly nailed, but it's also worth pointing out that aiming for the pity angle is by far the worst way to attract women. I've never heard a single woman, ever, say that being pitiful made someone sexy (the closest thing is "cute", which is heading directly towards the dreaded friend zone territory). Women like some combination of manly ruggedishness, confidence, power, intelligence, physical health; they tend to dislike childishly effeminate guys, pity seeking cowards, poor life-long welfare recipients, ignorant and stupid autistic, and fatties.

Chris is pretty much the she-boner killer.