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Sometimes I marvel at how fundamentally different people's daily life experience is - how some people get drowned in cheap meaningless exhausting attention all day, and others can't remember ever having been "hit on" in their entire life... And both are equally as unhappy
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(and I'm not complaining, I'm an attractive man, but even I, during my decades on this planet, have probably been "hit on" by a stranger maybe twice, total? Mind blowing.)
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@bedtimedrillsgt as someone who has at times inhabited both ends of the spectrum, I feel this. It's very weird.
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@squeedoodle and how ignorant people are to this spectrum... Cis dudes getting upset that their advances aren't reciprocated. Femmes complaining that only 7 people came on to them tonight, this dress must be ugly.
It's so dysfunctional, wow
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@bedtimedrillsgt it's really sad how uncritically we buy into the idea that attention and affection determine our worth. Something something attention economy...
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@squeedoodle very true. And then it becomes this game of trying to stand out from the crowd of 480 attention givers and of filtering out on the other side whose attention is actually worth caring about it's quite something