...I'm not actually sure how that ≠ happened, there. I mean, I guess it's technically true, but I feel like I was going for =.
[People interpret a lot of things in a sexual way that don't have to be.]
Oh, god, yes.
[There is also a fawn response, aimed at ingratiating.]
Huh; interesting. That does make a lot of sense, and would make the various modes work well as adaptive (or occasionally maladaptive) stress responses, though I want to avoid presenting them wholly or primariy as stress responses. (And, really, while the exact psychological mechanisms of the mode shifts are useful as background information and conceptual scaffolding, the story I'm working on is fairly abstracted from them – much more of a character study than a wider study of the phenomenon.)
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...I'm not actually sure how that ≠ happened, there. I mean, I guess it's technically true, but I feel like I was going for =.
[People interpret a lot of things in a sexual way that don't have to be.]
Oh, god, yes.
[There is also a fawn response, aimed at ingratiating.]
Huh; interesting. That does make a lot of sense, and would make the various modes work well as adaptive (or occasionally maladaptive) stress responses, though I want to avoid presenting them wholly or primariy as stress responses. (And, really, while the exact psychological mechanisms of the mode shifts are useful as background information and conceptual scaffolding, the story I'm working on is fairly abstracted from them – much more of a character study than a wider study of the phenomenon.)