Comment by strungup on 08/03/2025 at 18:04 UTC

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View submission: What's something you never understood about the opposite gender?

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I can’t speak for other men, but it’s not that I’m thinking nothing. It’s just that what I’m thinking about is nothing I want to talk about.

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Comment by Prudii_Skirata at 08/03/2025 at 18:52 UTC

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Both for me. I can go from thinking about things either dark as can be, ridiculous beyond reason, or even stuck in a memory my brain is superimposing over what is really around me... all things best kept to oneself... ... ... or I can truly just be on standby mode, in a state like when wizards are described as sleeping with their eyes open.

Comment by aWhaleNamedFreddie at 08/03/2025 at 18:32 UTC

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Amen

Comment by Galooiik at 08/03/2025 at 20:54 UTC

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Bingo!

Comment by M0rph33l at 09/03/2025 at 01:38 UTC

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It can also just be abstract enough that it would be more effort than worthwhile to try to put into words.

Comment by clearly_not_an_alt at 08/03/2025 at 20:45 UTC

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For me it really is nothing most of the time.

Comment by RepFilms at 09/03/2025 at 04:53 UTC

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No, the problem is that no one is all that interested in hearing about what I'm thinking