#internet fighting

I hate the concept of twitter so much. You can have an argument but you can't win people round to your way of thinking. With whatever stupid character limit they have there's no way you can possibly form a coherent point that doesn't involve yelling antagonistic abuse at people. You can't be polite, you can't compromise, you can't say that you understand that they're a human and you're a human but you probably just have a different background and perspective and that's fine, but if we both listen to each other's points and respect each other we might both learn something. All you can do is be like, You're a prick and you're Wrong but I don't have space to explain why, just take my word for it along with these insults I'm throwing at you. And nothing actually gets solved or changed. And the worst thing is that the people having these arguments are, like. actual grown adults with power, even sometimes politicians or presidents or whatever. it's just so dumb

'Well, I do have a BA in Psychology, so I am in fact more of "an expert" than you or anyone else commenting here.' Oh my oh my. I like this guy a lot in person but holy shit is he obnoxious to argue with

How is it that I spend so many days of my life on the internet fighting with ignorant people who call me beautiful friends in revealing cosplays "skanks" and "sluts" and "no talent attention whores"? Are those ugly words that come out to play when you think of women with nice bodies and talents as threats to your already dwindling manhood?