It is a status move. You either defend your status, or accept the status loss.
For people who enjoy status fights, defending their status may be simple and enjoyable. But I am not one of them.
For people who enjoy having low status, losing status may be enjoyable. But I am not one of them.
There is also the option of defending my status without enjoying it (or losing my status without enjoying it), but why would I do the things I dislike, if instead I can choose to interact with people who don’t do this?
Well...
There is a chance that if I got enough practice at defending status, I might start enjoying it. Then, defending my status would no longer be a problem. And it might actually be very useful, because there are situations where you can’t avoid the status fights. Maybe the smart move would be to do this.
I don’t like that, though. My excuse is that I suspect that enjoying status battles could have some negative side effects. Like, I might automatically start doing it to people who don’t like it, without noticing. But maybe this is pure rationalization. At this moment I simply prefer interactions without status fights, and I am too lazy to practice them.
Yep.
I know that it’s irrational, so I try to let it go when it happens casually, but when people touch me like that, I get furious instantly.
It is a status move. You either defend your status, or accept the status loss.
For people who enjoy status fights, defending their status may be simple and enjoyable. But I am not one of them.
For people who enjoy having low status, losing status may be enjoyable. But I am not one of them.
There is also the option of defending my status without enjoying it (or losing my status without enjoying it), but why would I do the things I dislike, if instead I can choose to interact with people who don’t do this?
Well...
There is a chance that if I got enough practice at defending status, I might start enjoying it. Then, defending my status would no longer be a problem. And it might actually be very useful, because there are situations where you can’t avoid the status fights. Maybe the smart move would be to do this.
I don’t like that, though. My excuse is that I suspect that enjoying status battles could have some negative side effects. Like, I might automatically start doing it to people who don’t like it, without noticing. But maybe this is pure rationalization. At this moment I simply prefer interactions without status fights, and I am too lazy to practice them.