Yeah. It's also about the inappropriate sexualization that happens in a repressed society. Like, there's a straight line from adults saying "aw, is she your GIRLFRIEND little man??" to a five-year-old kid, and people saying the same thing to other adults. Let people have inseparable friends 🤷

Yes please! I don't know how to love in a tepid, boring enough way for people to interpret it as platonic, and yet I have SO little interest in having sex with 99.999999% of the population.

I'm a hoebag but I am still 100% here for it. In my anecdotal experience the most reflexive, habitual practitioners of this kind of constant sexual/romantic insinuation have a ton of internalized repression.

Lord, I have so much malware in my brain around this. I’m constantly catching myself about to say stuff like that to my kids. But I refuse to pass on the dysfunction!