Defensiveness

[Silver]

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?

[I_am_not_mafia]

Why do you want to know? Why are you interrogating us like this? I don't have to tell you anything.

[Silver]

Why do you want to know? Why are you interrogating us like this? I don't have to tell you anything.

I respect your decision to venture nothing you deem too personal to share.

[Minimalist]

Normally I found that the customer was a fucking jackass.

[Angrboda]

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?

[brewer]

Take a flying leap.

[Seraphina]

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.

-Teresa

[The Valkyrie]

Remember that the best defence is a good offence!

😉

[Angrboda]

[ignoramus]

Remember that the best defence is a good offence!

😉

I would've said the best defense is a nuke from orbit, but yours will work too.