Aboriginal wrote:But I believe there is enough evidence in his posting history and patterns to substantiate my claim that Chozo is not intending to troll but is either such a social misfit he can't help himself or is in a state of duress feeding a vicious cycle, which is very tragic. I would imagine he's gone through a lot of emotional pain and suffering here trying to fit in as a fellow voraphile, only to come to this. Being insulted, outwitted, unwelcome, and ostracized. He's not himself lately. I've done the exact same thing and experienced similar on other message boards as a teenager with high-functioning autism.
I think you are mostly spot on.
I've been struggling with how to respond to this thread. I honestly did not expect the massive amount of hate that I received for my initial post. A troll is someone who purposely tries to provoke hate, and then enjoys it. But I did not expect the backlash this thread got, nor did I want that to happen. That's mainly the reason I never replied. And then I thought, okay I'll wait until the hate dies down and then maybe reply, but it went on for a very long time. Maybe now it is finally safe? I don't know.
It might help if I explained what inspired me to post this thread. It all goes back to a much older albeit similar thread about women having weaker stomach acid than men, which I did comment on and Aboriginal found it. Here is the link to that thread for anyone interested:
viewtopic.php?f=82&t=28981So anyway, apparently women do have weaker stomach acid than men do, and I didn't believe that at first, but apparently it is true... but I didn't want it to be true. I wanted to believe that women were at the very least equal to men in terms of digestion ability, if not outright superior. Yes, that's what I want to believe, so I'm biased. I admit that.
So like I said, that didn't sit well with me that female acid is weaker than male acid. But apparently it was true, so I had no choice but to just accept it, and that was a few years ago, and I've been having to accept something I didn't want to be true that entire time. But then just recently I came across that article about the differences in the digestive systems of men and women, and this gave me some renewed hope that women might actually be superior after all. Because, you see, even though female acid is weaker, this is compensated for by the fact that the female digestive system is longer and more winding. Now it started to all make sense to me why a woman's acids aren't as strong as a man's, because it doesn't need to be. The time that food (or prey) spends moving through a woman's body is a lot longer, so her body can take the time to work it over, and when all is said and done, her digestive power is actually superior to that of a man.
If you think about it, it's like that story of the tortoise and the hare. On paper the hare is faster, so the hare gets cocky and thinks it can afford to nap off and still have time to win the race, but the tortoise is relentless, and in the long run the tortoise ends up winning. Female predators are a lot like tortoises, and they are able to defeat the cocky males who think they are superior because of their more powerful acids, but the female digestive tract is a long and winding road, and that is a race that the females will win every time. And that should wipe the smugness off the male preds who thought that they were better.
So that was what my thought was when I posted this thread. I thought that it would help set the records straight and give hope to those like me who were disheartened by that other thread and the fact that male acid is stronger. Sadly it's true, but its not the whole story. And depending on how you look at it, the milder female acids could be a good thing, because the prey will last longer and get to savor the experience of being digested for a bit longer, before they dissolve away into lifeless fecal matter.
And yes, I do know there is a lot of male predator fans on here, but I didn't think they would be as offended by my post as they were, and also most of the male predator fans are women themselves, and my thinking was that even if they don't like female predators, the fact that they are females themselves meant that they might appreciate the compliment of me suggesting they were better than men, but obviously it didn't work out like that. That turned out to be a huge miscalculation on my part.
I might reply to some of the comments later, but for now I felt I had to get this off my chest, so that hopefully people can better understand what my reasoning was when posting my original comment, and hopefully everyone can see that I was not trying to offend anyone.