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[shakahislop]

something about the psychic infrastructure you have to work with

 

[sus]

something about the psychic infrastructure you have to work with

Do you think maybe it wasn't a coincidence that Victorian hysteria overlaps with the height of the British empire? IDK spitballing but

 

[Mr. Tea]

Do you think maybe it wasn't a coincidence that Victorian hysteria overlaps with the height of the British empire? IDK spitballing but

Gin damage, opium withdrawals, soot inhalation, tertiary syphilis.

 

[version]

The above is my best answer to the below, with the additional guess that models of what a woman can and should be are way more incoherent and self contradictory than mens

I don't read a lot of the stuff, but every article like that Emily Gould piece I have read seems to have been written by a woman. Maybe there are men writing like that too, but it seems much less common. That, or they're just not being published as frequently.

It is a specific type of woman, to be fair. It's not all women. It's mostly middle-class American women who lean liberal/progressive. Some might chuck in 'white' too, but I don't think that's as strong a factor.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

It is a specific type of woman, to be fair. It's not all women. It's mostly middle-class American women who lean liberal/progressive.

It's not that this demographic demands that its members be unhappy with their lot individually but it does demand that they be unhappy with the world around them for myriad reasons, and the personal unhappiness is an inevitable side effect. And also makes sense because if one is cognisant of the world being plemmirrulate with injustices and unfairnesses and unhappinesses then, being nonetheless content, makes you look a complete simpleton, even dumber than if you weren't aware of all these suboptimalities in the first place.

 

[shakahislop]

Do you think maybe it wasn't a coincidence that Victorian hysteria overlaps with the height of the British empire? IDK spitballing but

i don't know anything about victorian hysteria, sounds like a 19th century hipster londoner thing to me

 

[sufi]

plemmirrulate

https://useful_english.en-academic.com/736438/plemmirrulate

 

[ghost]

I think this Emily Gould piece is sort of downstream of Wollen's Sad Girl Theory. The case being made is that unhappiness in a woman is itself evidence of some sort of injustice or ill, and probably a structural one. Just don't expect Gould to explain what kind of ill it is.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

https://useful_english.en-academic.com/736438/plemmirrulate

There doesn't seem to be a definition there - not that useful a dictionary!

 

[Mr. Tea]

I think this Emily Gould piece is sort of downstream of Wollen's Sad Girl Theory. The case being made is that unhappiness in a woman is itself evidence of some sort of injustice or ill, and probably a structural one. Just don't expect Gould to explain what kind of ill it is.

Which prompts the question of whether female unhappiness is somehow fundamentally different from male unhappiness, and whether one can be addressed without exacerbating the other.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Which prompts the question of whether women are somehow fundamentally different from men

 

[Clinamenic]

Has Biscuits just revealed Tea to be a raging chauvinist?

That ought to spice up the relationship.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Has Biscuits just revealed Tea to be a raging chauvinist?

That ought to spice up the relationship.

Chauvinism involves an assumption that one group of people are better than another, doesn't it?

 

[Clinamenic]

Funny, thats what I'd expect a chauvinist to ask...

 

[Mr. Tea]

As to whether there are inherent psychological differences between men and women, I'd say it would be extremely strange if humans were the only sexually dimorphic animal species with no behavioural differences between the sexes.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Funny, thats what I'd expect a chauvinist to ask...

Why, you little...

 

[mixed_biscuits]

As to whether there are inherent psychological differences between men and women, I'd say it would be extremely strange if humans were the only sexually dimorphic animal species with no behavioural differences between the sexes.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Is bullying someone by agreeing with them a known trolling technique? I feel like it should be.

 

[other_life]

dissensus is a hostile work environment

 

[other_life]

help help. o i need my union representative here