**** Elections thread *****

[MadMojoMonkey]

As for the rest, I'm not of the opinion it's worthy of an endless dispute.

Am I turning this into an argument? Sorry. I don't meant to.

Yeah... endless is dumb.

So let's just say you won that argument too and move on.

I'm not trying to win anything; I'm trying to understand you.

I don't mean to be a jerk, so I'll drop it.

[Poopadoop]

I don't mean to be a jerk, so I'll drop it.

You weren't being a jerk at all, and I hope I wasn't either. I just felt we had our wires completely crossed and it was better to let it go.

[MadMojoMonkey]

You weren't being a jerk at all, and I hope I wasn't either. I just felt we had our wires completely crossed and it was better to let it go.

You're cool. I get the feeling we're going to do this a while until we figure each other out, then we'll be buds.


Kinda like me and wuf. We still dig into each other, but we have so much history that I respect him as being a smart guy who is nearly diametrically opposed to me in world-views.

I don't generally take the attitude that if I disagree with someone I should get mad and assume they're wrong. Not worth it. I hang out with smart people, and they have a consistent world-view. It's just different than mine. That's cool. I'm generally curious about what smart people who disagree with me think.

Still, it's not lost on me that I lack certain social understanding and that I can come off as judgemental when I don't feel judgemental.

[wufwugy]

Kinda like me and wuf. We still dig into each other, but we have so much history that I respect him as being a smart guy who is nearly diametrically opposed to me in world-views.

When it comes to things in general, we probably agree a lot. I'm just a boundary pusher. I'm always looking for a way in which a convention could be changed for the better. Like, today I was pondering the evidence/rationale for the idea that feminism has always been at its core anti-female and anti-femininity.

[Poopadoop]

You're cool. I get the feeling we're going to do this a while until we figure each other out, then we'll be buds.


Kinda like me and wuf. We still dig into each other, but we have so much history that I respect him as being a smart guy who is nearly diametrically opposed to me in world-views.

I don't generally take the attitude that if I disagree with someone I should get mad and assume they're wrong. Not worth it. I hang out with smart people, and they have a consistent world-view. It's just different than mine. That's cool. I'm generally curious about what smart people who disagree with me think.

Still, it's not lost on me that I lack certain social understanding and that I can come off as judgemental when I don't feel judgemental.

Thanks, you're alright too.

It can definitely be hard to read people's mood from words alone. Sometimes people sound pissy when they're just joking around or sound pissy when they're being completely straight. I don't know how many times I got an email and initially thought 'what a cunt' when it fact it was totally ambiguous what their tone was from the words they used, and I was just being paranoid. Other people have told me they have the same problem.

So I don't think it's anything to do with lacking social understanding - it's just that the social information we use to judge mood generally relies more on tone of voice and body language than it does on words.