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Clears throat awkwardly Are you... uh... seeing anyone now?
You miss 100% of shots you dont take
An unfortunately common justification for harassing people :/
True. Now I've got anxiety over if I've displayed that in a light-hearted enough manner.
But anxiety is why people don't meet other people or establish reasonable connections. What are you about, friend?
Yeah... it's perhaps down to a difference in experience giving us very different perspectives on the same thing.
I see the "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" line repeated all the time, and it's become extremely popular with the Man-O-Sphere chuds like Andrew Tate. While it was just a somewhat tired meme, it's rapidly turned into a genuine guiding philosophy that people live by, and it plays very easily into the conservative "an indication of sexuality is an invitation to sexualize" mindset. It's become the same thing as 4chan's "Tits or GTFO", but phrased in a less expressly offensive way.
There's been plenty of discussion about the lack of 3rd spaces and it's impact on society, so I do understand that people feel motivated to seize the opportunity for interactions when those rare chances present themselves, but it's an impulse that's really making it exhausting to exist in those few shared spaces we do still have.
[...the conservative “an indication of sexuality is an invitation to sexualize”] - Ew, and I totally understand.
[4chan’s “Tits or GTFO”] - Ew. Again, I totally understand.
I meant well. Hopefully I haven't caused offense. I just wanted to juxtapose the conversation with a casual absurdity.
No offense here, at least! It's just one of those ones that's common to the point you don't even think about it until someone brings it up.
I think this articulation will change - to an extent - how I communicate in the future, so thank you for this. I'm still going to be a dumb dog on the internet, but I always want to be a kind one.
and for assassinations