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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 1 points 2 weeks ago

I appreciate all the work you put into writing about and belittling my experiences

What experiences?

More importantly I’m also empathetic

Heroin addiction will ruin your life. Gambling addiction will ruin your life. Watching your kids get used for target practice by invading soldiers will ruin your life. Watching your friends and neighbors get pancaked by a collapsing apartment block might ruin your life. These things, and other things like them, are really happening in other people's real lives every day.

Flirting will not ruin your life.

Use that empathy of yours to find some perspective.

women don’t appreciate being approached by strange people

This is a very blinkered idea of what flirting is.

Just because you think that learning to flirt with people is a skill worth having...

I don't care at all whether you decide to learn to flirt or not. I'm not telling you how to live.

It is your assertion that attempting it would ruin your life that makes me cringe. It is so utterly self-absorbed, so free of context or proportion, such a "I'm 14 and this is deep" attitude. I genuinely hope you grow up enough to see this one day.