the best way to make relationship topics unsafe for your partners is to freely and casually invoke the weight of social convention whenever it’s on your side
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Replying to @chaosprime
Can you specify what you mean by the weight of social convention?
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Replying to @PierceCampion
the idea that this is the thing that should happen because This Is What Relationships Are
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Replying to @chaosprime
Right, and are you saying in the case of that type of breakup, the person being broken up with is the one who invokes that weight?
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i’m more talking about disputes about conduct in the relationship where person x wants x thing and person y wants y thing and y thing is the Universally Known To Be Virtuous Thing and x thing is Obviously Unvirtuous And Nonstandard
5:44 PM - 11 Nov 2017
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