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As I understand it, it's just...not good for the dogs, physically. A harness distributes the force better throughout the body, rather than straining one part. Anyways, I googled it and this seems...partly correct?

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/training/best-dog-harnesses/

you can certainly write these reasons off as post-hoc justifications for a psychological desire, and maybe it is, but would it kill you to Google it beforehand?

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if you think "googling" anything is a good idea you are already dead

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what are you going to do the day this blogpost is the first result on google for "dog leash"

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the comment above this one is proof that you're a total moron, and this comment is proof that you're utterly delusional

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its been 8 months man

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where did all that aggressive energy go

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This is a fantastic exercise in bolstering one's pre-existing worldview. My automatic interpretation of dog harnesses booming in popularity especially in cities is that a harness is much more complex to produce and takes more than twice as much material, meaning they only became a convenient option very recently in human history. In addition they're much harder for an excited dog to escape from (which if it happens can create a bigger problem in the city). I guess I don't have your psychosexual hangups guiding the main thrust of my interpretation.

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have you ever used the terms psychosexual before you read me use it

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Yes (in a sophomoric way) but not anymore because I think it's pointlessly redundant in most contexts. Best used for gesturing obliquely at freudian inferential technique when your audience is comforted by heavily polysyllabic rhetoric yet aggressively disinterested in actually studying history, which seems to be exactly what you're going for. No judgment beyond not personally being impressed with the gimmick this time. Clearly you feel this in a way I don't.

I think you and I suffer very similarly from the risk-aversive malaise that's set into the developed world, and have endured many of the same indignities at the hands of what I'll casually call toxic femininity. So I'm curious to see how others flourish in spite of it, and disappointed that churning out content at this level could be adequate ego protection for you/satisfying entertainment for your audience. Throwing your own word back at you is an expression of that disappointment -- when you see something everywhere you look, maybe it's stuck to your glasses and cleaning them is an option. Trying to figure out if your support group here is the kind that promotes difficult change, or just the ideology that change is unthinkable.

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Me I just think its a funny thing to say

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gotcha

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I can't let you in on the joke I can only tell you the joke

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it do be that way

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