What is something you wish you didn't know now that you didn't know then?

[raccoon]

For me: the amount of mean-spirited people in this country.

[seabeyond]

1. how much men hate women, preceive them as less, a thing, disrespect. i really did not get it

or know until internet. the men and boys i hung out with, growing up with, did/does not behave like this. hubby has to remind me it is the net and not a norm. i wonder if with constant porn and a constant dehumanizing of females, if it isnt beoming a norm. i would like to have never been a part of this so when i am in RL i am not looking at men as if they are a bunch of creeps. comments i often read being repeated in my head.

biggest mistake i have made.

and also what you say.

oh, adn dislike of children. that was a whole concept i was clueless about, but that i can shrup of as silliness. i can take care of mine. i dont need to be concerned about those that dont like kids.

[struggle4progress]

2. How much less wonderful we all are than we like to think we are

National Brotherhood Week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY

[RedCloud]

3. That my best buddies would all sell out and become walking contradictions of themselves.

[WinkyDink]

4. The sad state of my now-hair.

[old mark]

5. How many people in my past who I thought were my friends who were really not...nt