Date: 25 Mar 2008 09:35 pm (UTC)
firecat: damiel from wings of desire tasting blood on his fingers. text "i has a flavor!" (0)
From: [personal profile] firecat
Yeah, as I said: I think the pressure to rank everything is a really unhelpful feature of my culture. I think that's going on in some of these conversations.

I'm also wondering whether sometimes comparing experiences is not the correct way to dialogue. For example, I learned from my relationship counselors that sometimes a person wants to just have their feelings heard and not to have to share the conversation space for a while....and if that can happen, there might be space for conversation afterward.

And sometimes it can be hard for another person not to jump in and say "Yes, but here's MY experience of it" - but doing so is sometimes counterproductive.

I suspect this sort of thing might go on in conversations about political movements, too.
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