Don’t you just hate when people try to invalidate your experiences ?

@SweetMae Too bad there's no block button irl 🤭

@SwampFlower Right!! 🤭

@SwampFlower 💯‼️

@SW-User [c=#4C0073]Youre allowed to like whatever you want and also to change your mind🥰🤗[/c]

@SW-User What are examples of common man's movies? And is that the same or different from common woman's films?

@RedBaron Yeah, my wording is at fault, i do it playfully but in text people take things a certain way ... a common man's movie is anything that has mass appeal, and was designed for a profit at the box office, stuff like that, man as in humankind.

@SW-User [c=#4C0073]🤗🥰 Thanks Zen. I know and I usually don’t let little things get to me. I guess I’m just sick of hearing it from multiple sources. It gets old. If a tree falls with no one to hear it does it mean that tree hasn’t fallen? I’m it’s logic 101.

I’m glad I crossed your mind. I missed you all too. Glad to see you’re still hangin in there.[/c]

@VioletRayne You're stronger than you think, but I understand how frustrating it can be. Too bad there's repercussions for smacking people dammit!

@curiosi [c=#4C0073]I know right! I guess I’ll just never understand people who try to steal from you for no reason. You lose nothing by understanding and accepting my differences. Oh well 🤷‍♀️.[/c]

@Pfuzylogic [c=#4C0073]im sorry you experienced that. You’re a genuine person who always seeks to understand. Some people are so empty inside they try to drain the joy of others. I’m glad they didn’t succeed with you 🤗[/c]

@VioletRayne
If I am not anything it would be codependent!
There are very few things that I am not personally responsible for in my life and it is certainly awesome to see you here! 🤗

@Pfuzylogic 🤗🥰

@Shipwrecked [c=#4C0073]I tend to agree. Some people are just shitty people who refuse to acknowledge the plights of others.[/c]

@nowic2 [c=#4C0073]Not even just the thought process. Our perception’s are shaped through our experience’s. A woman does not see things through the same lense as a man or different nationalities, cultures, and races.[/c]

@Paintedfox [c=#4C0073]You tell em![/c]

@SW-User 😂👍

@SW-User [c=#4C0073]It’s not that I care about their opinion’s as much as it just pisses me off that they would try to gaslight me like that.[/c]

@bijouxbroussard [c=#4C0073]OMG Auntie Bijoux. It makes me really angry and sad to see the lengths some people will go to just to pretend not to see what’s right infront of their faces 😔[/c]

@EuphoricTurtle [c=#4C0073]In anyway just saying things don’t happen because they personally haven’t experienced them it’s insensitive and unintelligent.[/c]

@VioletRayne Yeah, some people are completely unable to empathize with others who had different experiences to them.

@VioletRayne Hmmm, ok. I don't necessarily think that's what is going on there in that particular instance but it depends in the man and what he is thinking. He certaunly could be invalidating her experience but couldn't it also be something else?

Suppose a black woman responded, "ugh everyone struggles with their hair?" What would you call that?

Can you give one more example, please.

@quitwhendone [c=#4C0073]I would ask her in what way? Has everyone been denied employment because their hair was considered “distracting, unkempt, unprofessional.” Has everyone been required to chemically treat, straighten, or shear their hair in order to be seen as decent or acceptable?

A gay man expresses the negative treatment he experiences as a gay man. A straight man says, “what are you talking about? Everyone loves gay people. They get praised for just being gay!”

That’s an invalidation of the millions of gay people who are assaulted for being gay. Those who are killed for being gay, and disowned by their families. [/c]

@VioletRayne Ok, I see it more clearly now. Thanks.

That hair example brings up other ideas in my head not related to validation. But, I know, it was just intended as an illustration.

@MartinTheFirst 🙄

@VioletRayne did you think that was what I was doing to you?

@Stereoguy [c=#4C0073]I care 🤗[/c]

@swirlie [c=#4C0073]Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and that includes you. [/c]