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you don't get to tell me to stop caring about whether i creep women out. it fucking *matters* to me. i *don't wanna fucking do it*. i am *not alone*. i have had a *lot* of private conversations with other men about this. men are *torn up* about it and they *can't talk about it*
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this is going to sound glib but I mean it as a serious object-level question: have you considered, or tried, or considered trying, not caring so much about other people's feelings? I know it's way easier said than done but I'm not clear on whether you've pursued this path
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related, on the trickiness of distinguishing between two fairly different meanings of “care”
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i think i get it a bit more now. among other things i was conflating two different meanings of “caring” that i had never really distinguished: on the one hand “valuing,” and on the other hand “clinging to,” “grasping for,” “being hung up on,” “being addicted to” etc.
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