Oh that SJW with the manspreading isn’t a feminist… she’s a flake. Yeah, I remember making a few comments on a video of that.
No, I prefer to not call myself a feminist. I’m just saying I stopped fighting it on the rare occasions I get the accusation.
It’s just words. I’ve been labeled lots of things through the years and fighting them all got tiring.
Besides, I’ve been online so long, my emotional states rarely go up and down with something someone says. To me, you’re a real person and I respect the real person on the other end. At the same time, wherever there’s communication, there’s 4x the miscommunication. Just the nature of the thing. You’re a good communicator.
I’m working different presentations of my thoughts for different audiences. The audience I’ve got you categorically in is one of the toughest crowds. [yes we’re all unique snowflakes but yes we also have tendencies that follow certain patterns. I’m as predictable as the next person once you know the schools of thought I fall into].
I saw you as somewhat in the Ayn Rand school yet also not. Used to have you as New Atheist but no, that was also not quite it.
Spiritualist head-in-the-clouds fits me ok. I actually think in terms of mechanical systems, gears and levers as well as musical phrasings – yet I find talking about things in that way to be dull.
So, I take the “Power of the Imagination” route and speak in analogies and the like.
I please some, not all. But I’m always looking for ways to improve my style.
Self-depreciation is a technique to ease some people. I use it, perhaps too frequently, (see, like that 😛 ) – but all in all, I probably see myself as an absurdist… so it’s good to take what I saw as if it comes with a wink and a grin as it were. I mean what I say and say what I mean but there’s no promise of comprehensibility.
And friendship for me is easy. I don’t think there’s magical words. If I’m called “friend” or “some guy”, it’s all the same to me. If someone thinks friendship comes with hanging out or doing favors, then I’m a terrible friend. If it’s making occasional comments here and there, then it’s a workable friendship.
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