Originally Posted by
ThePaleoLibertarian
Don't listen to most of this advice. It might be best to move out if possible, but that's easier said than done in today's day and age, especially if you live in a place where the cost of living is high. I grew up in the Bay Area, and the vast majority of millenials I know live at home, and the vast majority of them are college graduates. It's a similar thing here in LA, but not to quite the same extent.
Anyway, you need to learn how to deal with your mom. Not only is it a very important relationship, but dealing with your mother will be the template for how you deal with all women in life.
Here's a secret about women: they (the vast majority of them, at least) don't form their opinions on facts, evidence, logic or any of those things. Women's opinions are formed due to social proof and peer-pressure. That's why there're so many ultra-leftist women in college. If men collectively got their balls back, feminism could die within a generation or two.
Another secret is that women generally tend to gravitate toward the opinions of the men in their lives. That's often a boyfriend or husband, but it could just as easily be a son. My mother isn't someone I'd describe as an SJW, but she is a former hippy, a second wave feminist, and a liberal. Over the years from talking to me, she's come around to a much more libertarian position and is more-or-less similar to somebody like Christina Hoff-Summers. She still identifies with the left and is perplexed by some of my more extreme opinions, but we get along great and politics doesn't get in the way, though we do discuss it pretty frequently.
Basically, what I'm saying, is that you should just get used to confidently defending your opinions around her. Learn to make your arguments more grounded in pathos and ethos, as opposed to logos (this can be very difficult for libertarians). You might be surprised at just how much she comes around.
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