this horrid attention-farming apparition has equated the most horrific, catastrophic form of existence mankind can endure and compared it to... raising a baby. a curse, she calls it. words do not do justice for how pathological and corrosive apex rationalism is. everything is utility function. baby is equation to be solved and outsourced. this is not a form of feminism, it's a kind of genetic self-abnegation with post-hoc justification. in a way, it's good she perceives a child this way, because she should not reproduce. nature is correcting evolutionary trial-and-error and deterring her from propagating whatever dysgenic neurological/temperamental configurations are resulting in this perception of the world and her offspring. and this has nothing to do with why feminism emerges. elaborated on in comments.

RT @BackTheBunny: While I am not a nursing infant, it is strange how much I appreciate a sensuous breast. The larger they are, the worse st…

RT @BackTheBunny: While I am not a nursing infant, it is strange how much I appreciate a sensuous breast. The larger they are, the worse st…

RT @BackTheBunny: While I am not a nursing infant, it is strange how much I appreciate a sensuous breast. The larger they are, the worse st…

RT @BackTheBunny: everyone, including the most based of conservatives, believes in their own version of the Blank Slate. to believe in the…

Guilty sometimes. The worst one, in my opinion, is “to be honest”. You weren’t all along?

Guilty sometimes. The worst one, in my opinion, is “to be honest”. You weren’t all along?

Guilty sometimes. The worst one, in my opinion, is “to be honest”. You weren’t all along?

Verbal Padding You don't need to preface "in my opinion" when sharing what's obviously an opinion. "I think," "I could be wrong," "in my point of view", these are effectively rhetorical tautologies - deployed as prefix hedges to mitigate disagreeable reactions. They shield against dissent by preemptively dragging discourse into subjective purgatory, discouraging challenges by placing stances into unfalsifiable buckets. I understand the decorum and friendly nature these redundant statements try to establish, but it's exhausting to hear someone use them several times in the same conversation/essay; it distracts from, and diminishes, your substance. We know it's an opinion because these are opinions! We know you could be wrong because you are human and fallible! Just speak. Be not afraid. The deeper issue that nags at me is a latent aversion to disagreement itself. As if the very essence of it is impolite: a lurking fear of offending your verbal counterparty with claims that are contra theirs. This hedging habit diminishes substantive exchanges into tedious circumlocutions, where half the words serve no purpose beyond the speaker's psychological comfort. Productively adversarial settings birth the best realizations: embrace them, don't hide. Confident dialogue doesn't require arrogance, but it does require the courage to say what you mean without pseudo-apologizing for having said it. If you've come thoughtfully prepared, stop diluting it with verbal padding; if you believe something worth saying, say it directly. If you don't believe it enough to speak plainly, perhaps you shouldn't be sharing it.

"Our" problem, not "The" problem -