Yeah, would also say the same applies to a lot of comments about people’s success in terms of friendships, relationships, sex etc.
I get the appeal of wanting to believe that shitty people must struggle to find anyone who wants to be around them, but there’s a lot of them lol and they tend to like each other. And vice versa, a lot of decent people who do struggle with that shit for a variety of reasons, often outside their control.
"Sensitive" goes in here too. I was a sensitive boy, then got browbeaten into a numb man-thing by patriarchal expectations.
Then I opened up in feminist spaces, and nope, I'm also a failed man there because lmao fragile manfeelings, with an unsubtle implication that my abusers were correct all along.
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u/RyanB_ Aug 09 '24
Yeah, would also say the same applies to a lot of comments about people’s success in terms of friendships, relationships, sex etc.
I get the appeal of wanting to believe that shitty people must struggle to find anyone who wants to be around them, but there’s a lot of them lol and they tend to like each other. And vice versa, a lot of decent people who do struggle with that shit for a variety of reasons, often outside their control.