no matter how old I get I promise I will always fight back against old people needlessly shitting on young people for being young
when I was 17 older people said "when you get older you will understand", & at 29 I understand that older people (not all) are so often full of shit
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one way I know I'm getting old is that I forget when I've already said something before 😅
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When I was young, older folks would always say things like, “when you’re older, you’ll understand.” The most important thing I have come to understand - which I sensed as a kid, but couldn’t prove then - is that most people are full of shit
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grumpy old men complaining about how the world has done them wrong are extremely boring household tyrants
I knew this as a kid but wasn't allowed to say it because "what do you know, you're just a kid"
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Aside – I've actually been thinking a lot lately about how often people discuss and argue about things like politics, government, education systems, etc at dinner parties, over drinks and so on. Grumpy old Singaporean men do this _a lot_. Probably grumpy old men everywhere twitter.com/ComfortablySmu
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you know, for all of the criticism I've heard about liberal SJW types whining too much, the people who I've heard doing the most whining have always been grumpy conservative old men. Top 10 worst whiners I know are all old men. They whine to captive audiences – wives, kids
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Did a quick count. My top 10 would be 60% women. This is a cross-cultural sample.
AFAICT, about half the women have extrapersonal reasons to be that way, though, as opposed to just one of the men.
Long story short: sampling + anecdotal evidence.
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Weirdly, most of those women are from countries with relatively lower equality and high degree of structural + direct violence towards women.
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Personally, I only know one woman, maybe two, from Norway who is that egregiously resentful.
I know many more shitty Norwegian men.
But this is its own kind of sampling: I am very careful about which men I associate with abroad.
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interesting – curious to know if your assessment of the damage done by those individuals to others is proportional to their level of resentment
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Hm. Yes, but there are some other factors. Will think while I walk the dog.