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[–]kwallio 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I go so back-and-forth about this. It's really, really hard to not be polite, and it sounds bad in my mind, but the way many radical feminists deliberately embrace that form of social disobedience on principle not only makes sense from a woman's perspective (or so I intuit), but I can see the logic behind it being kinder to not entertain or encourage what might be considered mental illness or just harmful/unsafe behavior.

I actually feel this pretty hard. Everyone pretty much is socialized to not rock the boat and to accomodate people, pushing back against people is hard.

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This is why sometimes I really envy psychopathic lack of care about what others think of them. It's quite a test of conviction, there's like nothing really to reinforce or encourage breaking that kind of nicety. You have to really, really believe in what you're doing since it can seem rude or hateful (or even violent to some).