I like that though

I like Mildred. Such a shame that names go 'out of date'.

I think names would actually be more meaningful if people picked their own.

I remember as a kid in my area this game was called Toilets.

If you got caught you were a toilet and had to stand with your arm out until someone pushed on it and said 'flush.'

I miss the toilet game haha

I liked it at 11. Used to annoy teachers doodling eagles and owls on absolutely everything.

What species is this mohawked cutie pie?

Birds are awesome. Loved them even as a kid when it was hopelessly uncool.

I don't look for things to be either angry or grateful about I just get on with life. I respect that gratitude works for you. Personally I find forcing gratitude just drains me. I find I do best just accepting that sometimes I'm angry or stressed and that those are signs telling me something.

I don't own a gun. I'm from a country where it's not an option. To assume makes an ASS out of u and me.

Your point is bullshit. Not all people are good. Rapists exist. Serial killers exist. I'd like some options if I ever ran into one.

Guns would at least cause some difficulty oppressing people.

I'm a nihilist. I wasn't thinking of God.

IDK. I respect that gratitude works for others. I personally am not a fan because I feel we have the normal range of emotions for a good reason.

For example: Anger motivates us to leave an exploitative job or an abusive relationship. Gratitude might very well keep someone in that relationship or in a job where they end up herniating a disk...because instead of being angry enough to leave they tell themselves 'I'm so lucky! Other people have it worse!'

Millennial not boomer.

You make it sound like some poor hardworking exploited person built the earth themselves out of some sort of clay and handed it to me for free.

I find gratitude incredibly draining because it's artificial and also it seems oddly guilt based. I would rather frame things as giving myself credit. I got tasks done. I showed self discipline. Gratitude implies I was handed something on a plate.

I think maybe there's a reason we're not grateful. Maybe we need those emotions to motivate us.

I don't think if I were grateful I'd bother finishing up my scifi novel or many other projects.

I wish my life was this interesting

It is most definitely not an easy ride. I have had complete stranger come up to me in the street and lecture me about being thin. I wasn't even underweight. I was normal for my height. Happened recently and I'm way heavier than I used to be and people STILL do it.

Could be something she does is burning energy and you haven't figured out what.

I used to wonder why I never gained weight despite eating twice what other people did...I never thought to factor in being extremely active because it was normal for me. I didn't think brutal martial arts classes or 5k runs counted as being 'active'. I thought it was normal.

Granted I wasn't underweight and didn't need to gain but I really wanted to look like Zarya from Overwatch

I get that it's a bit inappropriate to be flippant and make jokes but if I worried about this every time I saw a headline about it I'd die from my adrenal glands exploding and melting a hole through the back of my computer chair.

sings Descending...unrelenting...beauty of annihilation...

Oopsie poopsie.

I ought to care but I've lost that ability. Annihilation is not scary. I won't be alive or awake to experience it.

Squee hes adorable

I think it just bothers me that people shove the idea of being this cuddly nurturer at me and don't give a shit if it's what I want.

A chess improvement company once wrote an article about me and although I was deeply grateful for the opportunity I am also very glad I saw the first draft because the reporter invented a whole imaginary child. While cutting a lot of my thoughts about annihilation and how it's a fairly staple tactical skill.

To his credit he removed it when I asked but...ugh. Can people not stay on topic ever? I swear to God I could be in the middle of defusing a bomb and someone would mention husbands or children.

What in the name of diarrhea is this? Someone please just explain like I'm a complete idiot

Because what they clearly meant is that I came across as being nothing but help staff.

Christ that's so fucked.

No a very traditional and backwards woman made a comment about how I'd be a good wife for her son who I don't even know.

I don't know how I managed to come across as that much of a worthless cored-out shell.

Someone said I would be a good wife...I felt powerless and degraded. How did I manage to come off as so brainless and lacking in self respect that I'd have nothing better to do than be someone's wife?

And people hound me about how I'll die with cats and desperately regret not having a man to wash smelly socks for.

Marriage is psychological adrenalectomy.

Then why are teenage girls far more likely to die from pregnancy than adult women who finished growing???

Annoy people by playing the kazoo in the library

Release 10 000 dobsonflies at someone's wedding

Go to a heavy metal concert. Get facial tattoos and a bunch of piercings. Drink far too much Red Bull.

I wish my life were this interesting.

Yea that much I agree with. I'm not going to 'work on overcoming' wariness of someone who is not only bigger and stronger than me but also more durable and faster and more coordinated and has a faster reaction time and even produces more adrenaline than I do.

Im gonna be fair here and point out that I think he has a point: male on female sexual predation at least has some awareness and laws about it. Female on male is a hidden epidemic. Most countries don't legally recognize that men can even be raped.

I absolutely agree and I wish Ireland had a second amendment. Situational awareness and a gun is the best equalizer.

I agree that no I haven't experienced mace but if someone is trying to rape me I want a bit more than an irritant spray.

Given the strength difference between a woman and even a short skinny man I feel I'd want to irreversibly annihilate him because if he gets up again I have zero chances.

I didn't derail anything. I gave a varied set of thoughts that had been bothering me. I don't want to be around a bear either. There are more things you can do to repel it but I don't want to be around a 1200 pound animal that doesn't bother to kill its prey before eating. And the fact that you just breezed past my story about a 200 pound drunk man sending me fucking rape threats and only backed off after I sent him an extremely graphic rant full of death threats right back is a bit much. You act like I have no idea what it's like being a woman.

Imma be fair here and point out that female on male rape is massively under-reported and under-documented because of a wording issue. Rape in many countries is defined only as penetration of the victim. A woman forcing a man to penetrate her therefore doesn't count no matter how obviously it was done against his will.

If you can't comprehend nuance then please just go scream elsewhere.