Yesterday I am discussing "Eye of The World" by Robert Jordan with two of my coworkers, and I talk about the prologue -- upon finding the dead body of their wife in a massacre, the character bargains with the devil to split the world. Darkness and evil consumes everything, and a new age begins. (I am 89% sure I did not read it correctly -- there were a lot of metaphors, and I find this Lord of the Rings writing style a personal challenge to me).
I follow up my synopsis with, "Imagine being that blind -- you are so obsessed with some chick, you would endanger everybody in the world. I really don't understand."
They jump down my throat with the following accusations: "you don't know what you're talking about." / "you can't talk about that if you've never loved someone" / "stop saying the word obsessed!"
Alright, so -- I was NOT looking to have a loaded discussion with them. I simply have never mentioned any past serious relationships around these women (as I consider it my own fucking business). It seems now adays, if you do not signal your entire life story, people refuse your viewpoint and it becomes impossible to have any open discourse.
So I thought to myself for 5 minutes, then say, "The only thing that I can think of that would put me in a destructive state of mind like that, is if I had a child some day that I needed to protect."
Que the REE-ing. Before this, I should have taken a better profile of my audience (a liberal / single / female (32) and a recently-single / overweight / career-driven / female (28) -- both modern feminist and owned cats at some point).
Is it really that triggering to imply that self sacrifice for the next generation paramounts your own fairytale? I thought this was common sense, something you realize when you grow up... I can't make much more sense of it at this point, they got so angry at the mention of what I think is obvious.
What do you goats think.
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[–] 1moar 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I quit talking to shit-whistle wizard sleeves awhile back. Nothing of value was lost. I may be more guarded or even reclusive, sort of, but much much happier. Totally worth it.