It's no different than sending thoughts and prayers. It doesn't actually do anything but makes the person sending/saying it feel better.

Have you ever heard how programmers use rubber ducks? When they come to a standstill with a coding problem, they explain the code line by line to the duck. By doing this, they usually find their mistake in the code and are able to rectify it.

Same concept.

As someone who has had the word "therapy" thrown at me by somebody who I thought was a friend and who had 0 idea how hard it is to find a decent therapist, you could not have done much worse. Women don't want a man to solve their problems, they want them to listen.

r/tworedditorsonecup

(Kind of)

Pretty sure they're just saying that they find it interesting that their old professor writes a lot of articles that end up being shared on this subreddit. Not much to explain there.