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Defensiveness
August 6, 2018 at 12:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2018 at 12:28 pm by Foxaèr.)
In real life, we're constantly taught to not be defensive, because "the customer is always right" or "I'm your mother, and I know best", etc.
Do you find yourself being more defensive online, a safer place, than in real life? Or do you mirror your real life and continue being a sheep online?
Have you broken the non-defensive mold in real life? How so?
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RE: Defensiveness
August 6, 2018 at 12:31 pm
Why do you want to know? Why are you interrogating us like this? I don't have to tell you anything.
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RE: Defensiveness
August 6, 2018 at 12:39 pm
Normally I found that the customer was a fucking jackass.
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RE: Defensiveness
August 6, 2018 at 12:49 pm
There's a difference between being assertive and being defensive. I try to hew toward the former and avoid the latter, but who am I to judge how successful I am in that?
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RE: Defensiveness
August 6, 2018 at 4:03 pm
Take a flying leap.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Defensiveness
August 6, 2018 at 10:26 pm
I use dark humor as a defense mechanism constantly, mostly irl though instead of online because it doesn't always translate well online. It serves dual purposes of often keeping people at arm's length and making people (who get the humor) laugh.
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RE: Defensiveness
August 6, 2018 at 11:48 pm
Remember that the best defence is a good offence!
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RE: Defensiveness
August 7, 2018 at 3:43 am
(August 6, 2018 at 11:48 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Remember that the best defence is a good offence!
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I would've said the best defense is a nuke from orbit, but yours will work too.
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