03-09-2012, 08:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-09-2012, 08:14 PM by Bring4th_Austin.)
I guess you don't fully understand. This interaction itself is tiring so I won't go any further to explain myself after this.
You assumed that I had not personally contemplated, let alone had any personal experience with, the act of rape. Your statement that I was deluding myself by not "delving deeper," i.e. considering the extremity of rape, was an assumption, and extremely false assumption.
The fact that I'm choosing not to respond to things like this is not out of emotional dissonance, but because it is tiring and not beneficial to anyone to continue to reiterate the fact that your assumptions are false. The description of such words as condescending is not an emotional statement either, it is simply discerning the fact that you believe that you have contemplated something that I haven't and view it from a point of broader awareness.
I was not insulted by the fact you said I was deluding myself, I was insulted by the fact that you used rape specifically as an example of why I was deluding myself. I'll reiterate once more that you do not know what I have experienced or considered. Perhaps you weren't being deliberately insulting, but your assumptions on this specific topic were so wildly false, the topic innately holding such strong emotional charge, that insulted is how I felt.
So if you think I'm deluding myself, feel free to say so, but because you seem to have a knack for false assumptions, don't expect any sort of response, because I find it a waste of time to refute them.
You assumed that I had not personally contemplated, let alone had any personal experience with, the act of rape. Your statement that I was deluding myself by not "delving deeper," i.e. considering the extremity of rape, was an assumption, and extremely false assumption.
The fact that I'm choosing not to respond to things like this is not out of emotional dissonance, but because it is tiring and not beneficial to anyone to continue to reiterate the fact that your assumptions are false. The description of such words as condescending is not an emotional statement either, it is simply discerning the fact that you believe that you have contemplated something that I haven't and view it from a point of broader awareness.
I was not insulted by the fact you said I was deluding myself, I was insulted by the fact that you used rape specifically as an example of why I was deluding myself. I'll reiterate once more that you do not know what I have experienced or considered. Perhaps you weren't being deliberately insulting, but your assumptions on this specific topic were so wildly false, the topic innately holding such strong emotional charge, that insulted is how I felt.
So if you think I'm deluding myself, feel free to say so, but because you seem to have a knack for false assumptions, don't expect any sort of response, because I find it a waste of time to refute them.
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