Five friends pile into a station wagon on their way to LA. An hour into the journey, the person in middle back yells at the driver for being gay, because they heard gays are slow drivers. Right back and passenger seat are very concerned that this might slow down the journey, so they tell the driver to pull over and debate the issue. Six hours later, the group comes to a consensus: gay people probably aren’t slow drivers, but the gay person is going to have to swap with left back just to assuage middle back’s fears.
Left back (now the driver) is a vegan. Two hours later, middle back says vegans are slow drivers.
You would like Bloodywood. They’re an Indian folk metal band that started out doing metal covers of pop and bollywood songs, but now they’re making original music and it’s lefty AF. Their most popular song is called Gaddar, which means Traitor, and it’s about politicians who use religion to stoke hate.
“Narcissistic behaviour” is an ableist dogwhistle. We don’t talk about enabling deaf behaviour, or autistic behaviour, because those are disabilities we treat with a modicum more respect.
If you’re not a psychiatrist, then you don’t have the training needed to diagnose someone with a mental disability. I don’t care whether your parents actually have NPD or not, but the risk of armchair diagnosing someone is that you’ll just amplify stereotypes. You diagnose them because they meet a stereotype, and then you study their behaviour and reach the conclusion that narcisstists act like the stereotype, and then you spread your conclusion. It’s citogenesis.
Also “narc” when used to say someone has NPD is straight up a slur.
No, I have NPD and we’re called narcs sometimes. It’s often used in the community as a shorthand, but generally if it comes from a neurotypical it’s a slur. I’m aware of the other meaning of the word and I don’t have a problem with it, but I tend not to use it because it just reminds me of the homonym which is actually offensive.
In primary school I was told I’d have to wear a ponytail if I grew my hair out because I’m AMAB, and I think it’s the single biggest factor in delaying my transition. I could have figured this stuff out when I was 10 if I’d been allowed to experiment at my own pace.
I like the episode of Star Trek lower Decks where the captain says “if you have time to lean you have time to clean”, and the ship falls apart. In the end they have to implement mandatory slacking off and corner cutting
I’m not an ecofascist, I’m not saying the human species, in terms of DNA and biology doesn’t deserve to exist. It’s the social construct of humanity and the culture. We need an otherkin revolution. We need people acting less like humans.
Well, no. People aren’t perfectly rational agents who always make correct decisions. They don’t always know what the mods and admins are doing, and they can be biased. People join instances because of the vibes, most people don’t even read the rules in the first place. And those who do have no guarantee the rules they read are the ones actually enforced, which is my core complaint here
I don’t have a planned out solution, but maybe one way to do it is to build in separation of the legislative and executive branches. Make two classes of moderator: rules writers and rules enforcers
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Five friends pile into a station wagon on their way to LA. An hour into the journey, the person in middle back yells at the driver for being gay, because they heard gays are slow drivers. Right back and passenger seat are very concerned that this might slow down the journey, so they tell the driver to pull over and debate the issue. Six hours later, the group comes to a consensus: gay people probably aren’t slow drivers, but the gay person is going to have to swap with left back just to assuage middle back’s fears.
Left back (now the driver) is a vegan. Two hours later, middle back says vegans are slow drivers.