I’m just curious, is there any gender involved here? From the stats, I’m assuming you’re male, and I’m also assuming that most of the people you want to be more affectionate with are males. But then you threw in, “if I tell my friend that I love her or try to hold her hand,” which confused me.
Your assumptions are right. I usually feel a bit more love and a bit more nervousness around girls, so that was the scene in my mind when I wrote that.
EDIT: on second thought, I switched the sex to the more likely case.
EDIT: on second thought, I switched the sex to the more likely case.
But on reading “him” (I hadn’t read the previous version) I thought you were only talking about men, which also confused me. (I tend to overcompensate those things by only using gendered words for 1. specific individuals or 2. generic people for whom it wouldn’t even make sense to be female, say, “a patrilinear ancestor”, and using gender-neutral words such as “people” or “them” even for reference classes of which 99% of members are male.)
I’m just curious, is there any gender involved here? From the stats, I’m assuming you’re male, and I’m also assuming that most of the people you want to be more affectionate with are males. But then you threw in, “if I tell my friend that I love her or try to hold her hand,” which confused me.
Your assumptions are right. I usually feel a bit more love and a bit more nervousness around girls, so that was the scene in my mind when I wrote that.
EDIT: on second thought, I switched the sex to the more likely case.
But on reading “him” (I hadn’t read the previous version) I thought you were only talking about men, which also confused me. (I tend to overcompensate those things by only using gendered words for 1. specific individuals or 2. generic people for whom it wouldn’t even make sense to be female, say, “a patrilinear ancestor”, and using gender-neutral words such as “people” or “them” even for reference classes of which 99% of members are male.)
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I hate english.
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