Little girl: "Mommy, I want to be a feminist when I grow up."

Morally apathetic? Long as nobody rapes, kills, etc to anyone I don't see problems. People are mean to each other sometimes... I've never been one to think everyone needs to be nice to each other. I've seen that as the way of the world, probably always will.

Wife? Not one to believe in marriage - no religious incentive to think marriage carries any weight, and they don't really do anything for a relationship. Children? Eh... maybe one day. For now, to me, they're cute for 10 minutes and then irritating and a money-guzzler. I've never been so crazy about kids or seen what's so "cute" about them.

Have to care? I think I've done a good job of making sure there's as few of those as possible. That might be why when someone tries to drag me into such a thing I get particularly annoyed.

And I don't want people to care for the thing I care for. I don't really care for much, and I prefer that people care for what I care for without being pressured to do so - I feel like anyone that likes something just because they were pressured to are fakes. If I acted like I'm part of feminism just because external factors pressured me to, I'd be a fake feminist. I'm not really one of the victims, I can't possibly understand how they feel and, frankly, I think it's insulting for me to act like I do. That's why when someone's feeling down, I just try to be there for them. But I never pretend I understand their pain, because I don't, and I think it's an insult to imply otherwise. Some of them have thought of me as a "warm yet cold" for it, but really I'm just... a realist. I'll comfort you... but I won't tell you that your problems don't exist, or sugarcoat anything.

Anyway...

Yeah, I've never been good on the scale of empathy really. I think people tend to act far more empathetic than they really are, and I just don't do that. If people can really feel other people's emotions so strongly just from being around them, then I guess I just can't relate or understand that at the fundamental level, because I don't get the same sensation.

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