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obstinatecondolement · 7 months ago

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I feel like I used up my lifetime supply of winning arguments in a way that I found personally satisfying that one time I was talking someone who was confidently saying that Alice in Wonderland was written on opium, which was why "none of it made any sense", the day after I had read The Annotated Alice in full in one evening and was full to the brim with information about Victorian references that would have been familar to Carroll's readership and the mathematical concepts featured in the two Alice books.

I've never once been teed up like that before and I don't know that I ever will be again.

#most of the other arguments I've won were deeply frustrating #because I've been clinging to my cool by my fingernails to avoid alienating someone who I think is just misguided #but is nevertheless saying something deeply bigoted #often *they* come away from these arguments very happy with the 'productive conversation' we've had and I'm internally screaming #but like... anything for you beyonce (my goal of decreasing the amount of transphobia/ableism/etc. in the world)#it's never as fun as infodumping the annotated alice in full at someone

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