Re: "You are not noticing when people think you're stupid" and particularly > it's very important that you know that they think that you're stupid and will ke

Re: "You are not noticing when people think you're stupid" and particularly > it's very important that you know that they think that you're stupid and will keep increasing the intensity of their responses until you acknowledge that they think you're stupid. I rarely get criticised or mocked and I think it's because I'm tall, white, and male. If I say something naive, people are almost always accommodating (ok, not on the Internet) because they don't want to risk offending the big beardy dude. This is a shame because I've spent much of my life: a) thinking people are basically kind and accommodating b) not being questioned, so missing a potentially valuable source of data with which to check myself and improve