I agree with you, to be cynical is to look at the world honestly. I would feel like a fraud if I went around blindly accepting everything fed to me. But me talking shit about some movie my girlfriend likes just makes her feel bad for no real reason.
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and you "feeling bad" about her "feeling bad" is the path to hell.
again the sense of humor is lost.
men pick on women. they like it. thats life. the rest is theatre for well fed neurotics.
I have been critical of media my whole life, starting probably somewhere in high school. I don't see that ever changing, it's hard to go back. Usually through some humor and sarcasm, I have really tried to challenge friends and family on what good tv, movies, music, and books are. Or other topics on religion, politics, etc. I don't think I've ever gotten anywhere with anyone except them being annoyed with me.
The people I've been able to find that are similarly critical of the world around them are extremely few and far between. I would likely be alone if I filtered out those who are not critical.
Would I be doing them a disservice to keep these thoughts to myself? Am I accomplishing anything? I do pick on the women I date, and they ~usually~ like it 😂