It's better to not get respected for who you are than to try and be someone you never were, and get respected for it. You don't need anyone else's respect to go on living.
by Solid Mantis January 15, 2021

by Solid Mantis July 29, 2020

This is one definition that doesn't speak for everybody, but is a universal common sense definition. Knowing that everybody is not the same, doesn't think the same, doesn't do things the same way without trying to convert the other person to your way of doing things is respect. Once you try and convert other people to your way of doing things, you don't respect them. This applies to people who wear masks, it also applies to people who dont wear masks, and try to run off the people who do wear masks. It also applies to race and statues. Thinking someone should respect your race and your martin luther king statues while trying to get Confederate statues removed is not true respect. Expecting someone to compromise before you can respect them is not respect, it's the opposite. Compromise or expecting others to compromise is also not a sign of growing up.
Elementary school kids learn how to call people sir, ma'am, mr., and mrs., and doing so is not a sign or a symbol of true respect for somebody else, which is why false respect or pretending to respect someone is not better than no respect or disrespect, and is sometimes the exact same thing.
by Solid Mantis June 27, 2020

by RESPECT MODS DAY December 11, 2020

When you have to relieve yourself of your blue balls (the Unblown soldier) by busting a nut. Or just beating off in general.
“Man Amanda was pounding me off but didn’t finish the job so I had to go to the shower because I was paying respects at the tomb of the unblown soldier via burial at sea.”
by anonymous April 14, 2022
