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_refugee_  ·  3350 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is There Anything Good About Men?

You have no idea what you are talking about, but I'd appreciate it if you can trust that I'm an adult who has thought through her desires carefully enough not to mind what they are. So otherwise, fug off.





reguile  ·  3350 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think you are reading too much into what I am saying.

    it if you can trust that I'm an adult

I don't give a shit who you are.

_refugee_  ·  3350 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Society loves a poet driven to suicide, but who produced lovely poems for thousands. Do you want to be that poet?
reguile  ·  3349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't say that because my views of you, or because I thought you are a child, I said that because it's a rhetorical tool. Making the statement that being great, being a hero, is something that society "glamorizes" at the expense of all those who become heroes. And that nobody should actually want to be a hero, even in the culture that emphasizes it, because it comes a personal harm.