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[–]fuckingsealions 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

For me, it was a friend of ten years. We met weekly for exercise walks, our families had dinner together, and we were both in the same profession and from the same state. She considers herself a feminist. I brought up that I thought it was unfair what happened to JK Rowling and said that I thought women's spaces should be protected. She ghosted me after that conversation.

[–]our_team_is_winning 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

She ghosted me

I'm Gen X, so when I first read about "ghosting," I thought it was a joke and I had to ask some Millennials I worked with. That is just so chickenshit cowardly. Hate to sound old, but back when you phoned people and talked to them, sure you could hang up, but "say that to my face" was more of a thing. Now with texting, nobody wants to interact with anyone live in real time. It's made people afraid of each other.

Just ridiculous about your friend doing that. What it means though is she knows you're right but she doesn't want her brainwashing questioned. She can't admit that she might be wrong.

[–]fuckingsealions 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm cuspy--more of a xennial. She is solidly a millennial and, sadly, much more conservative than I am. I started realizing that she was kind of a chicken about things a few years ago when she wouldn't discuss the election with me (long story, but neither of us are republicans). I miss her but we could never really have controversial conversations. Me coming out for JK was the last straw I guess. She still likes my insta posts. Sigh

[–]threefingersam[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So when she called herself a feminist, did she mean libfem?

[–]fuckingsealions 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, she is a liberal feminist.

[–]fuckupaddams 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm being ghosted for a similar reason. Did you ever send a second message?