Thread by @sighing_sadly

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee "It's relative,"

You have the nerve to start out with those words, after making absolute general claim (something that you will go on to do again), before continuing with a cliched bit of condescension.

"young lady.."

If you were expecting deference, it's not ...

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee ... going to happen.

"Allow me to mansplain:"

No, I'm not going to allow you to do so, but I am going to sarcastically thank you for unintentionally making a point for me: that in this very short-lived, decidedly non-romantic relationship that we're having, that I'm the adult.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee You're not trying to have a rational discussion. You're trying to browbeat me into submission. This is behavior I'm accustomed to seeing out of 12 year olds, and usually, fairly slow w i t t e d 12 year olds, at that.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee From where I sit, you're an adolescent trapped in a probably gracelessly aging body, getting his insights out of a six pack of Michelob, and wondering out loud why I am not wowed by them.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee "From the perspective of a 30 or 40 year old man, a 21 year old woman may as well be regarded as a 'girl' still,"

Which 30 or 40 year old man? Which 21 year old woman?

You show no sign of understanding that this is even an issue, or that it should be.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee "and yes absolutely still just a stupid kid."

Because, of course, we all mature at the same rate? Are you going to pound the desk and scream until I forget all of the times I've heard older people say s t u p i d things and try to push their own bad choices on me?

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee "While sure my 15 year old daughter is more mature than most of the guys I know (in terms of getting her life together and where she wants to go),"

But she'd better not be any more mature than any of the adults, the barflies included, because that would make adulthood ...

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee ... seem less special to you, and because your only "claim to fame" is that you've managed to stick around long enough to get to be old?

OK, boomer.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee That was really entitled of you, in a really s t u p i d kind of way, for reasons already given.

"she still is and will always be, just a stupid kid."

Spoken like a true, low functioning narcissist, as you tip your hand.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee In your mind, or what passes for it, your daughter will never grow up, and will always be subject to your whims, until the day you die. You've just admitted it.

You see her as an extension of yourself. That's textbook narcissism.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee That's also a very good reason to block you, which I just did.

I feel bad for your daughter, but I know better than to think that I'd ever be able to get through to you.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee That's a job for a psychiatrist, not a mathematician or a physicist. Unlike you, I know and recognize my own limits, and know that there are some jobs that I wouldn't be qualified to attempt.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee Maybe because, lacking your sense of entitlement, I've recognized that maturity is something that is achieved, not something that simply falls in one's lap as a free gift, simply because a certain date has passed on the calendar.

@workboottherapy @GildedPardus @tradeoftruth @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee I'd tell you to have a nice life, but you'd have to have one for that to be possible.