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oyster  ·  2977 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater

You're not getting it. You were given an inch. An inch of my experience, something I lived, something I could have provided more details of but you didn't ask for those. You didn't even remember the details long enough to begin your reply. Instead you assume I told the story wrong or exaggerated and that you know the situation better than the person who lived it does despite seriously not even remembering the details long enough to form your reply. Don't you think that's a little arrogant ? Why do you think you did that ? That's not a question I need the answer to by the way, that's just for your own thinking.

I don't waste a lot of time on people who try to tell me they understand my life experiences better than I do because even if you don't think that's arrogant I sure do.

I asked the other person this but I'll ask you too, have you ever pirated music ? Because it's a bit odd to feel morally superior for not cheating but then steal. I'm also not going to be told cheating is wrong by a theif that's for sure.

Pointing out that my male science teachers treated me differently isn't sexism... It's an observation of my own life. The life I lived, the experiences I had which you have no authority over but for some odd reason think you do. So now not only have you told me that I'm wrong about my own experiences of possible sexism, you have attempted to find a way in which I was sexist when in reality it didnt exist.

Congratulations.