[ SECRET POST #2860 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2860 ⌋

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Comments

Re: does "just ignore it" work for most people?

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't have siblings, so take my contribution with a grain of salt, but tbh I think you've answered your own question. At least partly:

...if I said something that was challenging or disrespectful to anoher person, I wanted to "win", to be seen as the dominant party in the interaction or at least to be seen as an equal and for this to be acknowledged by the other person...

See? You've said it yourself--"winning" requires that the other person treats you as if your challenging/disrespectful behavior deserves a response. If they treat it as if it isn't even worthy of notice, then they are definitely not seeing you as an equal and they're letting you know that they don't.

Also, yes, of course people make other people upset for fun. Are you about to deny the existence of internet trolls who do exactly that?

Re: does "just ignore it" work for most people?

[diet_poison]

Also, yes, of course people make other people upset for fun. Are you about to deny the existence of internet trolls who do exactly that?

Yeah, I know...I know it exists, but I really hope every single person who ever says something assholish does so just to get a rise. And it's also just never made sense to me.

Re: does "just ignore it" work for most people?

[(Anonymous)]

If they treat it as if it isn't even worthy of notice, then they are definitely not seeing you as an equal and they're letting you know that they don't.

Not necessarily. They may consider the behavior itself to be beneath their notice, regardless of what they think of OP generally. Ignoring it could, in fact, be their way of clueing OP in that this is unworthy of them, and that the other person expects better of someone they respect.