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<blockquote data-quote="Neil.T" data-source="post: 612238" data-attributes="member: 4160">You're very welcome, RadFem. This thread's all about constructive discussion leading to better understanding, for me. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙂" title="Slightly smiling face&nbsp; &nbsp; :slight_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" data-shortname=":slight_smile:" />I must also stress that I didn't actually see the part in the politics thread where the discussion originated, so I'd just want to make sure that you're comfortable that my comments were in no way a broadside at any one person or group of people and were more of a lament over how society finds a seemingly never-ending number of ways to drive wedges between things. I really hope it didn't come across as some kind of personal attack or anything.I was going to go exactly where ayase did. Those kind of people would be misogynists whether they described themselves as incel or whether they were getting sex on a daily basis, quite frankly. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤷‍♂️" title="Man shrugging&nbsp; &nbsp; :man_shrugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" />This is also a very valid point, of course. There's a tendency within human society for a &quot;race to the top&quot; in using the strongest available terminology to describe something. (That point of mine there probably belongs back in the politics thread, but I don't ever read it. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😛" title="Face with tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :stuck_out_tongue:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" data-shortname=":stuck_out_tongue:" />)Fun fact: when I was single (see: my whole life until only a few years ago), I genuinely feared being branded some kind of &quot;sick, perverted sex pest&quot; if I were to make a false move in my attempts to change my situation. The paranoid perception of an increasingly distressed mind, or a justified concern in light of the above paragraph? Your milage may vary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neil.T, post: 612238, member: 4160"] You're very welcome, RadFem. This thread's all about constructive discussion leading to better understanding, for me. 🙂 I must also stress that I didn't actually see the part in the politics thread where the discussion originated, so I'd just want to make sure that you're comfortable that my comments were in no way a broadside at any one person or group of people and were more of a lament over how society finds a seemingly never-ending number of ways to drive wedges between things. I really hope it didn't come across as some kind of personal attack or anything. I was going to go exactly where ayase did. Those kind of people would be misogynists whether they described themselves as incel or whether they were getting sex on a daily basis, quite frankly. 🤷‍♂️ This is also a very valid point, of course. There's a tendency within human society for a "race to the top" in using the strongest available terminology to describe something. (That point of mine there probably belongs back in the politics thread, but I don't ever read it. 😛) Fun fact: when I was single (see: my whole life until only a few years ago), I genuinely feared being branded some kind of "sick, perverted sex pest" if I were to make a false move in my attempts to change my situation. The paranoid perception of an increasingly distressed mind, or a justified concern in light of the above paragraph? Your milage may vary. [/QUOTE]

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