That's literally the entire point of talking on the internet! That you aren't obliged to sit there through "Kids these Days Reprise" or "Why Keir Starmer's Glasses Are Worse Than Trump" or "Your Specialist Subject, Manspained", still less "Oh God Racist Uncle's At The Gin AGAIN."

Yes to all of this! But I kind of love manspained? It's so, so painful to suffer through when you can't escape, certainly not doing it on a voluntary basis!

And even if people are super lovely and great, it's still *my* time and I will spend it how I want. Elderly relatives get 'duty time' out of me. If we are but internet randos to one another, no.