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Back in September, I did a thread on Twitter that a lot of people found helpful about how to start conversations. It was prompted by a couple of senior female academics having been mistaken for gue…

Very important, very helpful. I have two quotes that sum up the extent and limits of the advice:

This advice promises: No need to guess. No awkward silences. No faux pas.

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I’m not necessarily going to promise you’ll have FUN or even that you will have great conversations, just that it will reduce awkward offensiveness.

#conversation #social skills

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unpopular opinion but it’s cool if you don’t want to be in love

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like, idk. I used to feel so compelled to make excuses for being single, whether it was self-deprecating jokes about myself or insisting that I was too busy for a relationship or making myself go out on uncomfortable and pointless dates just to make a show of trying to not be single. there’s such an expectation that if you’re single you should be actively working of changing that, and it’s like. nah. there are 9999 other things you can be focusing your time and energy on and if you don’t really feel like being in a relationship now or ever that’s cool.

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#IDK IF THIS IS AN ARO POST OR NOT BUT MY ARO ASS WHANT IT

yes and no. I’m aro as hecky but this post is also for people who maybe want a relationship eventually but just aren’t feeling it right now. we’re all cool.