u/SkintherStevenson

What I'm having trouble understanding is that I've definitely read or heard about things said by philosophers that made me go "that was something I was spitballing in my head when I was a kid", and I'm not a woman. I was under the impression that this isn't a particularly unique or exclusively female experience. Anyone who has taken an interest in philosophy ought to have come across this phenomenon multiple times. The response to the women who say this is often "no you didn't, you're a liar", which is bewildering to me because "so did I, but I can accurately and succinctly verbalize these concepts now that I am a fully developed adult" is right there, readily available for anyone to say. Its not disparaging, but still manages to contest the notion that you're somehow justified in being condescending just because you weren't uncurious in your formative years.

It should also be noted that we often take for granted that many of these concepts have existed long before we were born and were already interwoven into the ideological zeitgeist, so it would make sense that these are things that you would already be thinking about at a young age. For example, if as an adult you read about a guy named isaac newton who came up with gravitational theory, it would come off as conceited to proudly declare that you already thought of that when you were a child, because of course you did. That's sort of the basic cable of our understanding of reality in the 21st century, so having a hypothesis of it before you ever read about it wouldn't exactly make you precocious. I'm only posting this here because I suspect that my mentation has a blind spot. I'd like to know if there's something I'm missing.

There was a guy next to me who was talking to someone next to him, and I overheard it. He was saying "so there was this tv show that aired when I was a kid, called Dinosaurs. It was live action, but they used jim henson muppets. Basically the premise was that it took place before the big bang theory, so there were still dinosaurs and shit, ya know?"

And I just about lost my shit. I was able to hold it together, but I almost laughed so hard. Not only because of the implication that dinosaurs predate the existence of the universe, but also the way he said it, "the big bang theory", alternatively suggests that his frame of reference as to when dinosaurs existed is sometime before sheldon cooper was a student at caltech.

This is why I dont wear headphones when I'm out in public. I live for this shit.

I cannot count the amount of times I have told a person born in the 2000s what year i was born, and their kneejerk reaction was to ask me what the nineties were like.

When I was a child, I knew my parents were born in the 60s, which i mistook for them having EXPERIENCED the 60s, even though that decade was wrapped up by the time they were in kindergarten. Thats an understandable fumble... if youre seven years old. These are grown adults asking me in earnest what the twentieth century was like when I just disclosed that I was only in it for less than two years.

Its gotten to the point where if it happens again, I'm just gonna lean into it. "Oh, the nineties? To be honest, I dont remember any of it. All I really did on any given day was drink, to the point of pissing myself constantly. I was an emotional wreck too, constantly crying and getting mad over things that didn't even matter. I had to be carried to bed EVERY DAY, because otherwise I would just sleep wherever. They found me passed out on the staircase multiple times. I couldn't read, which was the style at the time, and clothing was optional."

Oh Lord, please don't let me penis understood