"Please ignore the hyperbole." *dozens of comments exclusively about the hyperbole*
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It's just as much a reminder of why hyperbole is such a shitty rhetorical tool in persuasive writing as it is a reminder that people have a hard time looking past it to other things That line about being scared of men in the middle of grocery stores was a self defeating grenade.
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Replying to @ProperOpinion
i'm kinda coming to the conclusion that men and women both use the word "safety" and think they know what each other means, and are utterly wrong, that women have a completely different concept of safety that is basically only fulfilled by at minimum a secure private dwelling
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Replying to @chaosprime
You're not wrong. Anecdote: my girl doesn't like to sleep by the window rather than the door because that's where someone could break in.
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Replying to @ProperOpinion @chaosprime
i think being an only child and being my dad's right hand man on most stuff growing up is to blame for my more masculine instincts? i make my husband sleep on the side of the bed furthest from the door to our room so that i can react to a threat easier if needed
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Replying to @WithTheCaswave @ProperOpinion
ooh training effects! if it's all right to ask, how much generalized anxiety would you describe yourself as having?
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Replying to @chaosprime @ProperOpinion
you gotta tell me why you asked though! i love trying to follow people's train of thought, especially when, like you, youre asking questions to broaden a discussion! and you also sound much smarter than me, which makes the whole convo much more interesting for me :P
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Replying to @WithTheCaswave @ProperOpinion
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oh, because i'm testing my model described above and over here:https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1108051997561892864 …
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Replying to @chaosprime @ProperOpinion
i dont understand the connection because i know nothing about xanax! i am also probably one of the denser ppl you were meet, but i rlly do love talking to ppl about stuff like this if they have the patience to deal with me. Can you ELI5 what your tweet meant?
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is xanax for anxiety? mine was worst about 10 years ago, and i took klonopin. its been manageable for 8 years or so at this point
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yup, it's for anxiety! and prescribed twice as often for women as for men. which (using "me trying to figure out what the fuck is going on" standards of evidence not scientific ones) is pretty confirmatory of there being a meaningful difference in tendency there
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Replying to @chaosprime @ProperOpinion
do you think there is a correlation between higher stress/anxiety & being more protective or more worried about personal safety or somethin? tell me more!
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Replying to @WithTheCaswave @ProperOpinion
yeah, actually perceiving oneself to be endangered and having high stress/anxiety seem like so much the same thing to me that it hadn't occurred to me to separate them conceptually, so now i need to think about whether one should lol
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