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Italicizing platonic is rude and I have no right to insinuate anything about your personal life nor do I expect you to share anything further. I regret the tone
by perl4ever 7y ago
Italicizing platonic is rude and I have no right to insinuate anything about your personal life nor do I expect you to share anything further. I regret the tone.
Since you shared a meaningful experience with me/the world, I responded in kind, because to me, my experience is also essential truth.
However, I'm not sure that I was trying to be "sincerely helpful" to you. That's not how I would automatically think of it when I respond to some random non-gendered username on the internet.
...I also don't think asking if you were in an undergraduate program is such a personal question.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI'm absolutely not accusing you of anything whatsoever. I wrote out this long reply answering all of your questions and felt weird about it and wondered why and didn't post it. Then I decided to try to use this as an example of exactly what I'm talking about. Thank you for talking with me. I'm running a fever today, so I no doubt could have said something better than I did. Edit: In fact, I'm mixing up two discussions, because I talked about the private-public divide to someone else. So I apologize for the disconnect there. Other discussion where I talked about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22508564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22508564