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In reply to the discussion: "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is" [View all]Rilgin
(787 posts)You say "Some of us have endured a lifetime of other people explaining how life works, whether we are female, poc, disabled, or other kind of other."
I assume you didn't like it when other people explained to you how your life works. This is exactly my point. No one regardless of gender, race, sexual preference or non-preference likes other people who do not know them defining them or trying to explain their life to them. It does not matter the race, gender or preference of the Explainer if they do not know you individually.
Asking others about their life or explaining your own life and struggles leads to much less tension and much better communication. Starting with a goal of explaining something to someone else about their life is almost an impossibility if your goal is to actually reach understanding with strangers and is not to just cause uncomfortably or cause a flame war.