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Lots of people giving advice here, but I'm not seeing the most important advice being emphasized.
Always trust your gut. Listen to that uneasy feeling and act on it.
We developed this intuition over millennia for a reason. Your subconscious will pick up on cues even if you consciously aren't catching it.
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker is a book about exactly this. It's definitely worth a read, and his methods have been used by countless celebrities & public figures to assess threats.
You got me, this is what I’m referencing.
If the topic of books comes up in conversation with random people I always recommend it if that’s the only book they read in their lifetime
Unless it's about some other group of people than men.
Pulling out your gun and shooting the brown skinned dude going for a jog is a little bit different than packing it in and resolving to do yoga another day
I don't know what gender you are, but you've just triggered my spidey-gut.
I don't disagree with the advice to trust your gut, so I can't blame you for doing the same thing.
I'm getting sexist racist homophobic anti trans vibes here. Should I trust my gut?
If what I’m saying even remotely resembles something your caricature of the "other" might say, then the only logical conclusion, of course, is that I must be exactly like them.
I'll take that as a yes.
Oh no! A random person on the internet thinks I'm something I'm not. How can I ever recover from this.
Oh sorry, which one out of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti trans was incorrect?
No need to apologize. I'm only amused by this.
Please, tell me more about me. It's my favourite subject.
Which one out of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti trans was incorrect?
You already said "I'll take that as a yes" and that's more than fine by me. You're free to think of me what you want. I'm not interested in trying to convince you otherwise.
You said I thought you are something you're not, so which is it out of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti trans that you aren't?
You’re free to think of me what you want. I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise.
You earlier claimed that yourself was your favourite subject, yet you're mysteriously tight lipped on the subject suddenly.
If you weren't interested in convincing me that you weren't a big right wing stereotype, you wouldn't have claimed I was wrong, so I don't buy your disinterest line.
So which out of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti trans were you claiming not to be? It's an easy question. Feel free to share your opinions on all four culture war issues, @Free_Opinions.
I'm not interested in trying to convince you otherwise.
OK. Racist, sexist, homophobic and anti trans. That's quite the full set of prejudice. Why do you think you ended up with so much hate in your heart? What led you down the rabbit hole? Was it politicians telling you that your problems were because of people who aren't like you, or influencers telling you that you would be successful and happy if you follow their plan that comes with a side helping of nastiness? Are your friends right wing too, or do you keep it secret from them in real life?
I cannot defend nor explain the cause for a view I don't hold.
OK, so which out of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti trans is a viewpoint you don't hold?
I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise.
And yet every so often you deny it, but always in a vague way so that no one can tell which one out of racist, sexist, homophobic and anti trans you're denying. If you're not ashamed of your opinions, you should just say what they are.
"I'm not interested in trying to convince you otherwise" is such a simple statement, yet you keep asking the same thing again and again. If this is too difficult of a concept for you to comprehend I can't possibly imagine you grasping my nuanced view on any of the subjects you mentioned. I've engaged with enough of people like you to know to pick my battles.
Your nuanced view on racism? Your nuanced view on sexism? Your nuanced view on homophobia? Your nuanced view on being anti trans. Gotcha. Loud and clear.
Yes that moral imbalance also striked me when reading this. When grandma has a gut feeling towards brown people and talks about that, she'd be called a bigot here. But when it's about men, the highest upvoted advice is to listen to the feeling of fear in your gut...
If people only listened to their gut all people from a different culture which similar but not same body language as well as people with a disability would be even more estranged than today.
What does your gut tell you about the guy in line at the tell who keeps his hand in his pockets and fiddling with something who then seem to panic a bit when someone tries to look him in the eyes? Is it a robber or an autistic person who don't want to show his hand due to having a stim toy and have learned to not stim in public view?