“How old are you?” I asked within ten minutes of my first actual conversation with Y—. I’m just an asshole like that, asking personal questions prematurely and sometimes abruptly. The practice started as part of my self-esteem training, a way to prove to myself that others’ opinions of me didn’t matter. Now, I use it as a social tactic to subversively establish dominance by demonstrating that I don’t give a fuck. She feared this question. Her age was her least favorite topic of conversation, and she would have rather I asked about her most traumatic life experience, assuming that experience wa… 続きを読む