I didn't like it when I was a kid and my mom vented to me either. But I knew not all life situations can be solved right away. My dad was working far away and was only a few days a year at home. But that was the situation for many people at that time. In fact, I was the lucky one because many kids had both their parents working on a mine somewhere so they lived with their grandparents.
Boys in humanities especially psych are so weak they routinely validate feminists, and they both claim they are just each other's type, but they secretly hate each other. That's why they can't come together to save the world but continue to be miserably single or lovelessly married.
Then the forever talk if men can just learn from feminism emotional openness! Are they more open, or are they annoyingly vent all the time so they don't have to do anything to improve their lives' situations?
Boys everywhere have to deal more with financial reality. That's a fact. So do girls in third-world countries or rural areas.
Feminists think boys' lack of complaint about capitalism and unfairness in the world makes them less sophisticated and less empathetic. But they already often make their career choices based on the unfair reality so that they won't have to complain about capitalism. Because complaining about things you can change is not attractive, at all, for any gender.
Most people are not good at handling others' emotions. Just because girls often vent more and rationalize more and their friends are people pleasers so they don't tell them to stop, doesn't mean they are better at it. When people actively solve most of their problems, there are just not much left to philosophize about. Most of what they think makes them so sophisticated is denial.
So I got curious and checked out some analysts on Twitter and now I'm unreasonably angry again.
I became 10 times more confident after I learned about psychoanalysis. Because I was super over confident as a kid and that lasted for a while. Then after 18 I felt like I did many bad things and maybe the problem was me. And I thought people behaved better than me because they were better at maturity. And then I found out all the confident virtuous people around me were still faking it, no less than when they were kids. But now I have science backing me and my theories up!
Hello tutor 1 foot 3, I'm having my daily yogurt so my skin can be silky smooth.
Math in NEU was super hard. So I don't know how would I get out of that one if I didn't drop out. And some people (my mom) feel sad because I didn't have the chance to show my talent to larger groups of people (still according to my mom).
I'm happy doing what I do now. It makes less sense financially. But I'm focusing on what I can do easily. I don't have to work harder for things that are not suitable for me. All my high school nightmares were because I was so anxious back then I was so scared just to think about it.
I wasn't very good at math either. Still better grades than most normal kids, but not as good as I originally hoped. Because, again, I can't remember numbers. But I'm good at logic. So I found a few tricks to work around what I couldn't remember. It worked but I was also slower than everyone else, even the normal kids. I was in constant worry that one day people would find out I was a fraud.
I didn't learn any history, of any country or of any region, at all, at school. Because I don't remember numbers.
Watching the Russian parade to see what I was missing. Because we were supposed to join Young Pioneers from 3rd grade to 9th grade and do the parades every year. You would have to practice every day. After the final parades and artistic performances, you can hang out with other pioneers eating snacks and reading magazines donated from families. Much from my own family, so I just read them again.
But since I joined the gifted program, I didn't have to do any parades or gym because our brains were too superior to do anything other than math. Leaving me weak and helpless physically. And all my classmates were middle-class so the parents just gave a lot of money to build decorative camps and have fun instead. Sometimes I stayed at the camp during the night and walked around in lightless areas to scare people.
Read an awfully long and boring piece of “article” today about autism. I still don't understand it. But I know it's boring and the person who wrote it is definitely obsessive and kind of ugly.
Just throwing every chart you have because you like statistics, without having a clear structure of what kind of arguments you are trying to make, because you probably don't have them, is sure one way NOT to hold anyone's attention.
And for the final, to demonstrate they have some kind of compassionate feelings, they say that we should save the resources for the severe cases because they are suffering more. Which is somewhat the equivalent of the argument “Children in Africa are starving so you can't complain about your electricity out 10 hours per day!”