Being respected is convenient and sometimes eases things, like TSA Precheck. Being disrespected sometimes creates annoying extra hurdles to navigate like being profiled, which I dislike, but if it is just disrespect without any practical effects, hard for me to summon a reaction
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Interaction I’ve occasionally had with petty bureaucrat types: 1: They disrespect me without consequences 2: I don’t react beyond, keep my end civil 3: They get mad and escalate to add hurdles 4: I address hurdles but still have no genuine reaction 5. Now they’re really mad...
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Sometimes I think if I were a good enough actor to fake a slight reaction at step 1 I could avoid the escalation. Disrespect seems to often be a plea for recognition/respect in the form of a humiliation/anger performance.
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I don’t care about traditional respect/disrespect the way a boomer might treat it as some deep interpersonal thing—but I do hate people disrespecting the value of my time. I feel like that’s a generational thing, but haven’t quite been able to put my finger on it.
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With cellphone coverage I usually don’t care about that... can keep myself busy anywhere, anytime
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Ive worked with ppl who were hyper-sensitive to "respect," and it adds a whole new layer of interaction. Because they view everything in relation to how u view them, u can't be direct or they take offense. U have to think as much about HOW to tell them something. It's exhausting.
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This is interesting. There may be something rational about composure in the presence of disrespect. I would need to ask myself what is it that I feel is happening when disrespected. I was raised to believe, complimenting the extreme discomfort, disrespect is a form of theft.
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Except it’s not really. Nothing is ever properly taken. I can only give away the power to render myself composed. What am I defending, really, when someone disrespects me? Other than my body or my ideas, I suppose I can translate it as a sympton of insecurity from the assailant.
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Oh man, you should meet the captain on this boat I’m working on
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