NOBODY needs to permit you to be different. You will have to give yourself that permission. It is important that you will now give yourself the permission to disagree with anyone – including myself – without there needing to be a reason for you to inform me that you disagree. I don’t need to know, I don’t need to convince you that I am right or you are right or whatever. Not me, not anyone else. It is OK for you to think differently without informing anyone of the fact if you don’t want to. You’ll tell people when you feel the need to, OK?
As I said, you don’t need permission to disagree. Not with me, not with anyone else. Therefore, you don’t need to pick a fight with people who disagree with you, either. They don’t need your permission to disagree with you any more than you need their permission to disagree.
You don’t even have to agree on everything with your very best friend. Crazy world. :p
Find your peace. Be OK with not agreeing with people. Be OK with not arguing about it. Your thoughts are your own, and you’re entitled to them. I may not like your fucking thoughts and you don’t need to like all of mine.
One of your best hidden skills to be universally likable is to know when not to argue. Not everybody needs to be made aware that you don’t like them or agree with them (those two things go often hand-in-hand.) What you believe and especially want for yourself is nobody’s business but yours. You don’t need to lock step with anybody, including feminists or your mom. You can like men if you do. You don’t have to if you don’t (but as far as I’m concerned, that’d be dumb.)
You can express your opinion when you feel like it, but you are under no obligation to do so. Feel free to think what you want, believe what you want, and live with the consequences of those beliefs.
