"Bless their mesmerized noggins."

"Think of them like the children that get more clingy and needy when somebody else gets sicker."

"And then there was the time the shallower ones told themselves that being more condescending and bullying towards x-types of peoples was called for, as if they knew that people in those kinds of bodies were just about to get pummeled by more plans of sadistic patriarchal revenge. They were not the most aware of what was going on in certain situations, but their perceptions had been molded, and their instincts were sharpened to encourage them to behave in certain ways."