Meditation is how you learn to break this cycle

Women are the reason there needs to be places to sleep on a spaceship? If only men are on it they don’t need places to sleep?

“Ok”

But at least it’s a conversation you can work with “oh yeah it’s so nice we should go do X” or “yeah it’s crazy out there, we should stay in and watch a movie and snuggle” the point of small talk is to open avenues of conversation… I think people just don’t know how to have conversations anymore and chalk it up to “not liking small talk”. Observation and response is a perfectly normal way to start a conversation