Iron-hand in velvet glove. 🇺🇸 PROUD AMERICAN.
California, USA
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Men in relationships are happy when they feel needed and appreciated. She’s not being a child; she knows she ~can~ do these things, but letting her man handle what he deems may be hard for her lets him feel useful and valued.
Happy New Year 🎆—and happy 250 years of American independence! So grateful to call this country home. 🇺🇸
God bless America and all who call her home!
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All I read from this post was 1) I’m so youthful looking wow; 2) people find me so attractive ugh; 3) I’m an important person - how dare they think I’m just this super young and attractive person grr; 4) *name drop name drop*; 5) if I’ve ever been rude it’s because I’m drowning in attentionnn
As a women in BD, you regularly get pitched for casual sex.
This is a real problem.
Here’s my experience and how I’ve coped 🧭
For the first 2 years, I wore my company t-shirt religiously like a military uniform. At a talk, during a pitch, or on the conference floor, you will never see me without it.
It worked to a certain extend. As the message cannot be more clear - hi, I am here to work. HOWEVER - because I am Asian and we look young to the untrained eye, with my tech worker backpack, I was regularly passed over during BD events, or assumed to be someone unimportant at the company (I am the founder CEO). Once I even got ID-d. Another time hotel front desk flagged me when I walked in, trying to get valet parking - they must’ve thought I’m some confused high schooler who wondered in to the Ritz, where the event was held.
It still didn’t block all contact. The most extreme case - I had someone who approached me, appearing to want a job. He went on to message me every day on TG and called every other, taking up 40-50 hours of my total time. Maybe even more. At first, I had thought this was just a high profile high maintenance engineer who really enjoyed sharing his life when recruiting - dog, plant, first tattoo, childhood best friend, mom dad ex girlfriend. And I was willing to invest to mentor and build a connection. It wasn’t until I saw his messaging thread with another girl who’s romantically involved with him a year later, where he sent the exact content, did it hit me that he was, in fact, trying to flirt with me. It was a huge waste of my time.
After that, I started to enter more rooms with senior executives - Sony, Sega, Robinhood, etc. I realized that while very tech coded, looking like a high schooler was making me stand out in a strange way. We autists have a social sense too - just slow and very dull, but it’s there.
I switched strategy. From there on, I always made sure any event I attended, I had a male companion with me. It’s either my own BD team @nostratbeststra and @Web3LooterBowen, or someone I’d borrow from a trusted team, such as BD leads from Soneium or Sei. Fortunately or unfortunately - crypto events can be very vibe-y. We once attended a beachside swim and hang with the Ethereum foundation. It was one of the best events at ETH CC hosted by @jchaskin. It was also prime grounds for guys looking at girls in bikinis and asking for ig accounts. Having a trusted contact in these cases usually helps.
(@TatsuatTokyo from Soneium as seen in the photo!)
Usually, after these bad experiences, I have a mini breakdown, where I feel a pang of fear and anxiety, and end up acting out in one way or another. Sometimes it’s an angry aggressive pitch to a trusted friend (“invest and wire RIGHT NOW” or “I need your analyst, DONT FUCKING CARE”), other times it’s finding a gay person in the room and clinging on to them tightly. In any case - it’s not fun.
Alas, this is my experience. I don’t have a solution, but at least, I’ll talk about my problems.
Happy December!
I was a classical liberal, persuaded that tolerance and reason still had some purchase in politics. But the celebration of Charlie Kirk’s assassination revealed a movement drunk on its own moral vanity. To revel in violence is to confess a bankruptcy of principle.
I seldom agreed with Charlie, but I respected his views and his humanity—and his death has radicalized me. I will not stand with those who mistake cruelty for justice, nor excuse a politics that sanctifies hatred as virtue.
This coddling of the teenage ego is educational malpractice.
One reason teens are so self-absorbed is that they’re fed a steady diet of first-person fiction: navel-gazing narratives from lazy authors who mistake introspection for depth and are too indolent to write beyond the “I.”
If teens read more third-person prose, they might develop a theory of mind and finally realize the world isn’t just a mirror.
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Tragically, there remain those who, lacking argument, turn to violence rather than suffer dissent. It’s a shameful abdication of reason, and we should all condemn it without equivocation, no matter which side it comes from.
I promised myself that my X profile should be 'politics free'. But its time to speak: this is bullshit.
If you are a Democrat and support this, feel free to block me, we cannot be friends.
Violence is not how you succeed here, its good ideas and sane leadership. There is zero of that right now in the Democratic party. ZERO point ZERO.
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It’s almost unbearable knowing that Mars will be bustling with life one day, and I’ll be nothing but dust. I was born too soon, and the future I ache for will go on without me.
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The reason so many moderates and conservatives initially recoiled in horror at the ascendancy of woke ideology was the sheer insufferability of its tools: the doxing, the shaming, the stifling of dissenting voices. It was a totalitarian impulse dressed up in the clothes of moral virtue, and for many of us, it was just unbearable.
Yet here we are, in the aftermath of some much-needed cultural recalibration following Trump’s victory, and what do we find? Those who once railed against these methods—those who decried the silencing and the mob mentality—have taken up precisely the same weapons. They’ve become what they once despised.
So, let me ask this:
You’ve wrestled the power back into your hands, and this is how you wield it? This is your vision of freedom—indulging in the same petty, vindictive behavior you once found repulsive? Spare me the appeals to grace or dignity—if that’s too much to ask, then at least have enough self-awareness to recognize your own hypocrisy.
Instead, what we see is an unfortunate confirmation of power’s corruptive tendencies. It’s disappointing that this is truly all we’ve all taken away from close to a decade of chaos. That your grievance wasn’t with the methods themselves, but only with being on the receiving end of them. We should focus on building something real, not ripping each other apart like vultures. That chapter should be behind us!!!
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I was critical of Gavin Newsom long before these fires erupted. Now, I'm teetering on the edge of full-blown Newsom Derangement Syndrome, watching him squirm as he deflects blame, spins damage control on podcasts and through photo-ops as LA burns, and shamelessly funnels donations through ActBlue in the midst of the crisis.
When the ashes settle, there will be no avoiding the intense scrutiny he so richly deserves.
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