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Girl Talk 8w
Ngl some of you are very weird when we have this ED conversation bc someone can just say “hey eating disorders are bad” and mfs will respond “bUt WhAt AbOuT fAt PeOpLe”. Hey so we’re talking about eating disorders, stop playing stupid
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Anonymous 8w

I saw someone call this the downfall of conversational generalization. Basically we should be able to make a general statement without having to list every caveat and exception to make our point. I also like calling this behavior bean souping or whataboutism because it also comes from some people ability to take everything personally whether it involves them or not.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

I agree with that. Some people are either intentionally or unintentionally making conversations harder because they refuse to think outside of themselves. There’s been so many times I’ve felt hit by a comment then reminded myself it doesn’t apply to me so why do I feel hit? I think it could possibly do with how much conversation happens online now instead of face to face. I also think at least in the example in the post that it’s also sometimes people just deflecting to someone else so they can

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

ignore the problems being brought up

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

Yeah I’ve had a few people who I suspect made comments to deflect the conversation and every time I just told them that’s not the topic at hand and either let them sit there in their dumb response or blocked them for trying to insult and bully me over it.

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