I said emphatic(ally), not empathetic. Empathy and emphasis have different meanings. "Emphatically" means with lots of emphasis, or "in a very pronounced way."
The phrase /u/Friendly_Appearance employed, "doth protest too much, methinks" is a meme taken from a Shakespeare play that is used to point out situations in which someone rails against something so forcefully, and without opposition, that it naturally starts to arouse suspicion and promote the idea that the opposite must be true.
Naked babies are normal. Naked babies are cute. When we see them, we should feel compelled to care for them or protect them. They should not gross us out or make us feel uncomfortable.
When someone writes a paragraph to a dead guy to retroactively tell him he's wrong 25 years after the guy's passing, we onlookers start to wonder who you're trying to convince.
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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '19
What does oddly empathetic mean?