Marknis wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Women bore the word "spinster" for generations without killing people. I wish men could.
(Not you, Marknis, nor anyone on here -- just a general beef of mine).
One of my co-workers actually told me she was surprised I hadn't shot up a school due to being bullied. Not only is that a horrible thing to say, it shows how she has little to no understanding of psychology.
I spent a lot of my early and mid 20's with some degree of the impression that people were, wittingly or unwittingly, shunting me toward that sort of path - a bit like if someone's existence or differences make you uncomfortable have enough people agree that they're likely to become a serial killer or 'blow their top' in some epic movie-like way, treat em like that till they become it, and the mess cleans itself up by the authorities and the guy who didn't fit in gets hauled off to everyone's relief.
There's a sort of blurry line between what a lot of people seem to consciously and deliberately know their doing, what they're subconsciously doing but don't consciously know, or want to do subconsciously and have a vague idea consciously that they're doing but want to know as few details as possible because going with it gives them something they want and they don't have the moral resolve or internal consistency to face that part of themselves down.
This is another area where I think people miss the target when they spend too much time focusing on whether a guy is in a relationship or having sex. What's probably more important are all the other things he's going through that would make a potential partner see too much risk either to reputation or even to their own well-being (by way of other people) to want to be involved. The lack of sex or caring at all whether someone is 'getting laid' just seems to be the colloquial shorthand for a guy's social status and the accrued effects that status has on his life.
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