Boo-hoo-hoo. A new victim

This TV ad really pissed me off.

A young woman talks about her migraine headaches and nobody understands, not even her mother. So her mother puts on virtual reality goggles and sees her daughter’s migraines, a bunch of out-of-focus and blurry things and people and she takes off the goggles and says, “I didn’t know” and she hugs her daughter and everything is OK.

The ad was for a pain killer; I don’t remember which one.

But what the ad really presented was the migraine as victimhood. I hurt; nobody understands; I am a victim.

Give me a break.

(DISCLAIMER: I am not making fun of migraine headaches. I do not have migraines, but I did have a vein burst in my brain 30 years ago. It felt like somebody hit me in the head with a sledge hammer. Maybe that's how a migraine feels. If so, I can honestly say, I feel your pain. But there is no victimhood.)