I feel like most of the worst asks on this site come from people who don't have much experience relating with people in person (which is fine) and rely on learning how relationships should work in theory or via helpful posts about consent and respect etc (which is also fine), but then have grown overly confident with how they think human relationships ought to work and think something suspicious is happening when what someone's experiences don't match up
Hence why "I forced my boyfriend to watch Spy Kids 2" reads less to them like a joke and more about violating consent or something. Because they're unfamiliar with the dynamic of laughing and telling someone something corny is good while they theatrically eyeroll, they end up focusing on the word "forced" instead
Or like, how getting inundated with largely decontextualized posts about fetishization and whatnot leads people to ask questions like "Can lesbians watch movies about gay men" because they don't have the actual experience of talking about movies with gay men who will overwhelmingly be like "Of course? What are you talking about"
And I think it's easier to empathize with this (as long as they're not trying to tell you you've done something wrong) but it is kind of like. An unfortunate online phenomenon. Idk what the solution here is
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