#but really genuinely if you know how i can circumvent the subtextual readings

[elumish]

I'm almost done talking about this for the moment, but I just have to say: sometimes, it is so goddamn exhausting to make what feel like the least spicy takes possible and be consistently faced with pushback.

I don't know what people want from me. I'm not sure how to make a less controversial take than "maybe we should try not to hurt people," and yet people get mad at me for it.

What do you want? How can I make what I'm saying clearer?

Or is the problem that I'm saying it at all? Are you just uncomfortable with the idea that you might need to take a close look at your own writing, that you might find ideas that you espouse not to support if you look hard enough? Are you afraid that you might need to face the choices you've made?

Why are you so unwilling to engage with what I am actually saying, instead of projecting something else onto it?