Another thing to consider is that schools tend to punish people for retaliation more so than the people who start conflicts. Like she says she was punished for retaliating even putting aside anger that's standard I think. Also even when they do go after epople who start conflicts nothing happens and you will continue to be picked on by that person whether that's verbal or physical.
Personally when things happened to me physically. That's just my opinion though and if it was serious like where you end up in hospital etc I obviously wouldn't feel that way. But she mentions stuff like people jumping on your back so lets go with that level. Like one time someone chucked an apple at the back of my head but I didn't see who did it as I was leaving school, that didn't bother me as much as the ongoing psychological abuse from one girl. Or the shame about it happening in the first place (and shame was a big thing for me in general.) Like after it happened someone came up to me and asked if I was OK and that was so embarassing that at that point I started crying. I hated feeling weak.
I'm a very angry person or irritable anyway (but sometimes it gets to pretty strong anger,) but I don't think I show it irl especially to strangers. Think it's definitely a family thing because at some point or other everyone in my immediate family has been like this though it expresses in different ways and I also have stories from the past with my mum, plus my dad will get angry often about certain topics and always has done.
Anger does scare people though and no one really likes people being angry, outside of I guess some musical expression or very specific contexts, so I get why it bothers people and why they prefer stoicism.
I mean people hate neuroticism so anger is part of that but also anxiety. My experience being unable to suppress my anxiety response as easily as anger irl meant people constantly telling me to speak more even to the point of physical threats as a teenager lol. Just disgust and even constant questioning of 'are you OK?' Which always basically meant 'your emotional expression bothers me please correct it.'
I think in the UK there's also a kind of cultural push towards stoicism and it's valued. This is dependant on class and also it's less that way than in some other cultures globally but still moreso than eg: America. I feel like Americans are incredibly emotionally expressive in general. Even and especially positive emotions this can be good though like my favourite teacher in school was from Minnesota.
I also did get that angry about games as a kid. I haven't since childhood. Well, so it wasn't the game itself actually. My brother was distracting me and then I kicked him hard in the back then my dad responded by getting furiously angry lol this is what I'm saying. At one point as a kid my brother chucked a brick at some girl too. I've said this before though. He mellowed out almost entirely from puberty onwards which is why I think Jordan Peterson is either full of [BEEP] or talking about something else when he says that boys who are still physically aggressive like that after the age of 4 never change.
I didn't know until recently because my dad brought this up but one time when he and my mum were younger but in a relationship still or married I dunno, but togehter basically. They went to some seaside town and my mum was playing some game (not sure what, can't remember, probably not electronic.) And this teenage guy who worked there was hovering around and being distracting so at one point my mum yelled at him to [BEEP] off you bastard. My dad found this funny too... Like my parents marriage was never great but the things he sort of remembers as amusing are... Intersting let's say that. I can't remember if she was annoyed that he was being distracting though or that he was backseat dictating what she should do or whatever. Either way I've never done anything like that with a stranger though.
Also reminding me of this video lol. Cause I stumbled on some clips a couple of days ago. I dunno if he exaggerates this for the comedy but he just verbalises everything he's thinking and he just gets mad in the first couple of minutes - no 30 seconds lol - for an apology that he decided to make and her going 'mm hmm':
Speaking of being easily irritated the kind of cultural opinions that lead to the second quote in this conversation in the comment section is annoying and honestly weird:
Nia nailed it. This girl is what we call a "pick-me" girl, an "I'm not like other girls" girl.
She doesn?t have a boyfriend because she is too busy hanging out with yours.
All the applause for Nia, she nailed it.OHHHHH [BEEP] dude slick fucking line. "She doesn't have a boyfriend because she's too busy hanging out witn yours." Shiiiiit. Also , ladies or NBs, be angry at your boyfriend more so than the girl, anyone who goes after someone else's partner is trash, but your partner is the one you love &trust. Have a long talk with them about why they're hanging out with someone like that and if your gut feeling or if their words tell you he's being unfaithful or flirting with the fantasy of it, ditch him they can be trashy together.men do this too jsykA lot of this video and the comments section comes from a very heterosexual way of thinking. Not to say that the woman who sent that letter isn't narcissistic as her writing about herself makes it sound that way and honestly the bit where she said she enjoys being treated like a princess is so weird to me it sounds like trolling. Lol actually it reminds me of that video I posted about recently. The post with 'I'm a woman, a soft woman.' So she didn't understand the drive for power or something:my phrasing was "men too" you somehow included nbs which wasn't included but failed to mention 48% of the pop, kinda weird mate
But people who have some attatchment to the [BEEP] community probably won't agree with the idea that you can't be friends with the gender of people you're attracted to. That's mostly a heterosexual idea for example. Not saying that's necessarily Nia's viewpoint but it's certainly a lot of people's viewpoint.
Non-binary people usually (OK overstatement possibly but often,) hang out with guys partly because a lot are autistic or neurodivergent (at least that's more common in that population according to research,) so they don't necessarily pick up on all the social rules throughout life at an appropriate timeframe especially the rules straight women have. I would say it becomes increasingly hard as you age for a lot of people - to make friends in general - but even in childhood some don't manage to have female friends. Also if they have certain interests, you might end up in certain environments that are gendered more one way or another.
So they've lumped non-binary people in with women thinking they're worried about the same things firstly and that they're not going to get accused of being 'not like the other girls' and all kinds of [BEEP] like that - which non-binary people do all the time online - if they're genetically female. And regardless (even if not genetically female,) we're always being told we're attention seeking narcissists - not necessarily sexually but in general - so that's just the daily reality online lol. So it's a bit ironic that she wrote that post lol.
I think most people lean into it in the end because of all the nagging. Which I'm not saying is a good thing but that's just how it is. It's the same with bisexual women they've always been accused of being attention seeking and promiscuous.
And then of course not all non-binary people are attracted to men. There's no mention of gay men here of course either. It's just like 'women (straight) and people I see as being exactly like women (straight)' lol.
Like I can safely say that 9 out of 10 people would have looked at that comment and thought 'but non-binary people are attention seeking sluts. They're the new bisexuals.' Or like 'non-binary isn't real stfu.' So it's just surreal. You can tell she's saying that to be politically correct but has none of the understanding.
I have an allergic reaction to those terms because there's a subreddit and then they'll just post something like some woman on social media talking about how she likes a pair of like gothic boots or something. It's really just an excuse to [BEEP] on women who do anything that stands out in anyway ever.
Like consider again what's happening in this video from the 90s:
So I brought up before straight women for a good reason. You see the obsession with wearing makeup, shaving, and following certain aesthetic rules in general is something that sapphic women can be more lax about sometimes because they're at least familiar with butch women and there's a wider range of expression in that community. At one point in this video one girl compares these girls to guys.
Something about some of them is reminding me of how women or teen girls on Tumblr act who are part of like goblincore culture and things like that.
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Goblincore
The sinister thing is if they don't find friends who are like them or tolerate them like what's happening in this video eg: when it's just 1 or 2 people as one girl says in the video then they tend to just get ignored and/or bullied. But if they do find more people like them - like say on the internet or in this video - then it becomes a 'social contagion (tm)' and it's treated as dangerous.Goblincore is an aesthetic based on the appreciation of aspects of nature not typically regarded as beautiful. These aspects can range from animals such as frogs and snails to materials such as moss, mud, plants, and fungi such as mushrooms. A part of this beloved "ugliness" is the Goblin itself, a malevolent thieving creature in European folklore but in Goblincore a carefree representation of one's infatuation with nature's "ugliness" and general unpredictability. Goblincore is essentially a dark, or unseelie, version of Fairycore (in Celtic myth, fae are seperated by the beautiful and generally more benevolent seelie court and the uglier, more malevolent unseelie court).
Goblincore is popular in the LGBTQ+ community, especially among non-binary, transgender & demigender people.
A significant part of Goblincore is the desire to collect and hoard small, often shiny objects, affectionately termed "shinies" by practicing Goblins. Many Goblins are closely involved in adjacent movements such as Cottagecore, and Vulture Culture.
All genetically female outcasts must be policed into oblivion no matter why they're weird. You must be isolated and in small numbers or ideally not existent at all. Most people including women don't even seem to realise that's what they're doing! The same thing happens with men of course they're more likely to face violence as well but the particular aggressive way that people approach this with women is not good. And I know that what's happening in this video was never just 'ignored' because in the 2000s in my school I was the person who was read as a girl - before I came out as non-binary - and had a girl comment on how my hair smelt because I wasn't washing it enough and loudly too in class. So with the hair thing as I said before I started washing my hair more. Probably still not as often as the average person especially now since I don't go out as much.
When I see Aella post about how she never showers on twitter I think about this too. She gets lots of [BEEP] for that of course. She has a lot of sex with men and is poly, and is quite nerdy in some ways and bisexual so she ticks all the boxes of a woman who would be hated. But it makes her more attractive imo that she has that self confidence even though I'm mostly not attracted to cis women. I think she feels threatened by women too though like the sexual competition thing. so I still feel cautious because I know she sees non-binary people as women if they look like women. (I mean she said that in some tweets.)
Also this is just funny and relateable though I'm not attracted to that guy:
Like she overanalyses a lot of stuff.
I think the internet hates her because she says what she's thinking in an unfiltered way and also posts edgy taboo polls. I don't agree with her on everything though myself. But twitter's reaction to her at any point in time is intense and most of her followers who support her are men.
So those are the women I relate to.
Like so elsewhere in the comments of the Bill Burr video you can see how culture impacts things too:
Seems like you're looking waaay to much into the sexual aspect. Like there's more to life and friendship to that. Legit we all sit around playing board games, watching Star trek and helping in our community garden. Like dam my apologies we aren't all dying to get down. We aren't attracted to eachother in that way regardless if thier a man or a woman. I respect all my friends boundaries. I wouldn't do anything to cross the line because we have a great time chilling and joking about and i care that thier comfortable. Friends respect eachother. We are all human beings, [BEEP] if my guy friends decide to cut it all off one day its not even my business, you do you. Penis or lack of one dosen't make me suddenly not want to play pictionary with you, dam relax its not that serious.Elena, in all do respect. That does sound very genuine and sincere of you. But, I guarantee you. If you were to ask your guy friends "hey I like you and let's hook up" thinking and hoping they'd say "no". You'd find the answer out yourself.
Your response has an abundance amount of feelings behind them. So carry that with you however you please Elena. Some people aren't privileged to live in Disney fairy tails. Especially, men for that matter.
I see on the daily how everyone crosses the line. If your one to set the boundaries and barriers amongst your peers. That doesn't mean others aren't waiting until you give them an opening to take it.
A relationship must be reciprocal to not be platonic.
I'm simply saying that people have underlining motives and don't completely speak openly of theirs desires or most important the truth.
Nothing wrong with it. It is what it is. But it's definitely what you make of it as well.And a lot of people out there are poly and give less shits yeah there are multiple worlds.I mean my friend group everyone is like late-mid 30s so we are all also grown adults that have spouses/are asexual nerds of the highest degree, also majority are gay anyway, the ones who excude most sexual energy are the lesbains so do what that what you will. I think my problem with thinking men and women cant be friends is it makes men these sexual monsters that are always on the prowl which is kinda fucked up because like, thats not true, we all just humans and theres notthing wrong with not wanting sex or valuing friendship above romance/passion. And I guess its harmful because it makes men who just desire companionship out to be freaks, which they arent, they are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. I think that was my point, that friendship is such a valuable relationship on its own and its okay to just want to have friends and that men and women that are strictly platonic arent sick or hiding something. Sometimes humans just desire community and bonding in a non sexual/non romantic way. So lol nah i really dont think any of us want to go "there" with eachother, we legit just want to play Scattergories.
I don't even care tbh if someone is thinking that and don't tell me because that's their problem lol not mine. If we're having a good time doing something like playing a game or something. I'm not a mind reader and I'm neurotic enough without going down that path any more than I have to lol. Most guys will let you know if they're attracted to you or not attracted (maybe that's less true for younger people though it was true back when I socialised with people irl in the early 2010s but now everyone online complains that guys don't do that so that's weird.) I had guys make it clear they're not into me before as well so even that's a thing.
There are some people who are like 'that's bad, you shouldn't talk to men because they all want to [BEEP] you and that's not fair to them because they'll just hang around like lost puppies waiting.' No that's their problem lol.
OK so there was someone I was attracted to, but nothing could ever happen and I knew that because it was online and she lived in another country and I'm sure I wasn't her type and so on. Actually there were multiple people one in the UK (I cba going into all that so that one was a guy we almost met up once but then didn't whatever.) I told both of them in incredibly awkward ways. Not good. Much cringe. I feel like there's no good way to tell someone you find them attractive anyway like you either know them irl and ask them out somewhere or it's cringe. Someone else online once said that and it stuck in my head. But they were also socially anxious.
Actually I told that woman multiple times over a period of years I think (I forgot but then re-read some messages at one point.) She kind of dismissed that I think (I'm going off memory) but I get why my saying that didn't make her feel better because my attraction wasn't based on anything she was insecure about so it couldn't really help and also the fact that I'm not a cishet guy and such probably I don't know, but I told her anyway. I also genuinely liked her as a person and found her interesting and we talked a bunch online for a while.
And everything is online now and if I can be a complete weirdo creep letting people know I find them attractive-oh right but then if it's someone you also are going to see in real life good point. Silence is best.
One thing I've noticed is that men are apparently really lonely now, and they don't have friends. They have less close friends than they did in the 90s. Not even guy friends and the guys who do have friends are more likely to have female friends. (Well based on one survey or something I remember seeing at one point I dunno.) And there's tons of videos, articles etc about this.
And I'm friends with my ex who's a straight guy (we didn't have sex and I think I've established my own sexual peculiarities in my posts so no I'm not really looking for relationships and sex really. If I could find some ideal maybe otherwise no. Which is something people do hate. This woman in the video is single and that's a point that bothers people,) but it's a long distance thing now. We communicate online but rarely hang out irl. He went on some dates but he hasn't gotten into another relationship since and he doesn't really have any other close friends either. Neither of us have.
He's always been very introverted even during a period where I was more socially outgoing he wasn't. He didn't really like going to parties, didn't drink and so on which makes it harder for sure. It took a lot of involvement on the part of others for us to even get together in the first place. We don't talk about personal stuff often at all either of us. So it's not something we talk about often but he did mention at one point going to some board game clubs but he went to a couple and then left because the owner creeped him out and he's said that he's picky. He also said at one point that his friends growing up were girls. That wasn't the case at uni we were both studying subjects that were male dominated his degree even moreso but he still ended up hanging out with one of the only women on their course along with a few guys.
So that's the reality for a lot of younger millenials and gen z and I think it's a very different world in a lot of ways from older people and especially neurotypical people and certainly succesful people. There are people out there who have hardly any social contacts and you're potentially shaming them out of the only social contact they have which is not good. Like things are probably fucked for a lot of people - at least if all this media attention means anything - but that's not going to help.
And again this has nothing to do with the specific example in the video which was weird I'm just commenting on a wider trend. People prefer parasocial relationships these days lol.
She also said in the video she feels bad getting into relationships herself. I could also kind of see how someone might internalise the idea that getting into a relationship with someone is bad if she thinks she's responsible for her male friend's feelings and believes that all men want to to be with their female friend's sexually and/or romantically no matter how attractive or unattractive they are and that's she's responsible for that - which is an idea a lot of people like to push (you wouldn't even need to be a narcissist to believe that because the idea there is that men will just [BEEP] anything.) While also complaining about aggressive misandry. Pick a struggle.
I actually think that's part of why a bunch of the women responding to this video in the way they did, did:
No one could ever accuse them of being pickmes lol.
I mean obviously a lot of these women have other issues and probably negative experiences with men but I feel like it probably feeds into it a bit.
At one point shoe asks 'do you think you're responsible for male loneliness?' Because they're all accusing her of blaming women. And yeah some of them might. They probably read stuff like that online all the time.
Note that shoe has a mostly male audience, like an insanely male dominated ratio, is bisexual, has ADHD (neurodivergent,) and gets called a pickme herself. That might even come up in this video I know she's brought it up in some (yes it does lol in many of the responses.) Part of this is that she's sympathetic to conservatives but it's also you know because of the male audience and discussing topics that either appeal or are of interest to men more. Also expressing criticism of feminism a bunch.
But in this case the guys were already in relationships so that can't be true. Like she's not keeping them from anything lol.