Consider the possibility that if some one tells you your choice of words makes it hard for some people to hear your message, this may not be a request to shut up, it might just be a request to find better words. If you can't bear to have people ask you to rephrase, perhaps the problem does not lie in them.

Shut up, and lie back down, I'm not done kicking you for things other people did to me.

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A build-it-yourself, wire-it-yourself, modular dollhouse toy for encouraging little girls to play more in the realm of engineering, math, science, and architecture from an early age. Found thanks to the wonders of Pinterest.

I've just had a realization. Basically, I feel about feminism much as I do about chiropractic: the practice is all well and good, and I'm for it, but much of the alleged theory behind it is complete and utter wank, and rather embarrassing to have to sit still for.