switchboard_pete

giving somebody a gift card for a product or service you think they specifically will enjoy is objectively more personal than giving them cash, yes

ask them what happens when a guy walks into a women’s restroom and says they’re a trans-man but is lying and isn’t actually trans?

i can’t source it and it’s tangential but i do remember hearing about some study that looked at people’s reactions to their cancer diagnosis

• some people react with melancholy
• some people react by entering into a strict regime to give themselves that maximum chance of surviving, like heavily controlled diet, exercise, etc.
• some people react with outrage and denial, just refusing to allow the fact that they have cancer alter their lives

and the outcome was that the second groups had better outcomes than the first, but more interestingly, the third group also had better outcomes than the first