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[madscience]

I've been enjoying reading Violent Acres. Check out the "most popular articles" link at the top. I find the author's consistent, contextually-incorrect capitalization of words like "mother" and "father" to be kind of irritating, but otherwise she's a good writer.

The part of this post that talks about arrogance vs. self-deprecation elucidates

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[tinag]

So you'd prefer that a woman not compliment you at all? Is it the same as, as the author mentions, the woman calling herself fat or ugly or worthless?

[madscience]

Yeah, exactly. I'd rather receive specific compliments that show a real understanding of why something I've done deserves a compliment. That puts the complimenter on my level, rather than making them seem like an awestruck groupie.

[jryson]

At my age, I'll take all the awe-struck groupies I can get!

[jryson]

There is no compliment like. "Yeah, you're right, I hadn't thought of it that way."

But, yeah, back in my day "I love your mind" meant "Your Mother dresses you funny."

[drbunsen]

Or "she's just not that into you"

[drbunsen]

Aw man, I can't read either of those articles. Not today :(