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Lately I've been tryin to do more Srs Person things, like I'm about to go to a conference and I looked at the other people going and they're all like, People In Suits who Founded Businesses and have Academic Degrees, and then I get a feeling like I shouldn't be horny on main 1/

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but like, what is that? I'm feeling sheepish, like I should be professional and pretend I don't have a sex drive and not talk about my pooping habits or eating poop or my deepest insecurities. But that's weird; it's weird to be in a culture that quietly, subtly suppresses that

4:42 AM · Jun 1, 2022

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It's like people are interacting through avatars of themselves when it comes to these worlds. And maybe that makes sense, like they *are* avatars, they represent a company or something where being honest and vulnerable would damage their work. But man, that really sucks for them

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Jun 1, 2022

I'm so grateful my life has taken me to a place where I can enjoy relatively high vulgarity without it threatening anything important, where who I am is really aligned with what I'm doing. I'm very lucky.

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YES YES YES

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resist all forces, human or inhuman, which try to make you contort yourself into a shape, forces which influence you to express yourself as anything less than a complete human being

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i like thinking about the people who werent around for the context of the "eating poop" thing, hearing you say that like its just another in a list of normal human behaviors

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Cultural agreements allow a culture to function efficiently. Society would never function if everyone was constantly questioning norms and "being themselves" how is this not obvious?

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Urban's social survival mammoth at work. Don't worry, it ain't just you.

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It is