Self diagnosis is bad enough, this is a bit mad really isn't it. I suppose in certain circumstances you're probably ending up in self medication as well etc
As an information warfare tool tiktok is pretty good, let's be honest
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Self diagnosis is bad enough, this is a bit mad really isn't it. I suppose in certain circumstances you're probably ending up in self medication as well etc
As an information warfare tool tiktok is pretty good, let's be honest
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And why the fuck not?
dilbert1
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This is from psychology textbooks - that's where the internet gets it from!
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@shakahislop is right in that the internet is leading people to use terminology that they otherwise wouldn't, but that's because they can draw on a vast store of information from which the terminology comes along with the associated analytical framework e.g. evo psych in that case. And people do speak like that but they are well-educated people with an analytical mindset who can think on their feet i.e. not most people, not even most Oxbridge grads.
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Baby boomers should be paying for Gen Z's looksmaxxing because it's their neglect that has led to the latter being born dissatisfyingly androgenous and vainly trying to chad and babe themselves up by way of compensation.
mixed_biscuits
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Looksmaxxing doesn't aim at beauty only. It aims at the kind of beauty you get from a ton of testosterone or oestrogen flooding your system. There are beautiful androgynous males with delicate features but looksmaxxers aren't trying to look like them. They are trying to look beautiful and libidinous and fertile too.
And because conservatives are more sexually dimorphic (they look more stereotypically like their sex) looksmaxxers end up looking like they would vote Republican.
And because conservatives are more sexually dimorphic (they look more stereotypically like their sex) looksmaxxers end up looking like they would vote Republican.
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Oh behave, mixed 🫦
Ian Scuffling
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Understanding biscuits' opinions on trans people much better now that I know he believes strong jawlines turn men illiterate and right wing and that he thinks not infrequently about beautiful androgynous males with delicate features. What twink hurt you so, biscuits?
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Can you tell me how someone ends up in the wrong body?
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@Ian Scuffling it's well documented in the literature that Conservative people are more sexually dimorphic, libidinous and fertile but stapling on more jaw won't affect the other things because they are all influenced by a common cause that is still missing: the looksmaxxed will look more Republican utd not necessarily act so.
Ian Scuffling
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Well what's your answer, Mrs Krabappel?
I mean I definitely know you're in the wrong body, what they call an 'egg'. The masculine who fails to self-actualise and sticks to obstinate teenage secondary school girl drama.
It's a common affliction of male gender critical feminists, actually. The refusal to take responsibility.
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I feel completely uninsulted. Please tell me how does one end up in the wrong body.
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Gender critical is a laughable term of criticism too. Is the opposite 'gender gullible'(?) and are the people critical of 'gender critical' people 'gender critical critical' and thus twice as bad.
It's almost as if some of the fundamental tenets of Butlerian gender theory cannot be explained by any of its proponents!
By the way, I can explain the body claim, with the outcome being that I'm about 20 years ahead of any progressives and they are all massively 'transphobic' because not only do they actually believe statements of that kind are untrue and therefore deluded (although they won't say so for social censure) but also because the implications of its being true are very wide-ranging and they do not recognise any of them (yet again, because they deny the literal truth of the claim).
What they also don't realise is that if they worked themselves into a mindset in which the claim can be literally true then pretty much all of the 'gender critical' critiques of authentic trans states are defused. They won't get to that mindset and, as a result, their project will be gradually dismantled on false premises (both sides are working off the wrong premise).
It's almost as if some of the fundamental tenets of Butlerian gender theory cannot be explained by any of its proponents!
By the way, I can explain the body claim, with the outcome being that I'm about 20 years ahead of any progressives and they are all massively 'transphobic' because not only do they actually believe statements of that kind are untrue and therefore deluded (although they won't say so for social censure) but also because the implications of its being true are very wide-ranging and they do not recognise any of them (yet again, because they deny the literal truth of the claim).
What they also don't realise is that if they worked themselves into a mindset in which the claim can be literally true then pretty much all of the 'gender critical' critiques of authentic trans states are defused. They won't get to that mindset and, as a result, their project will be gradually dismantled on false premises (both sides are working off the wrong premise).
entertainment
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Good question. I don't feel any emotional connection to the actual content and interactions I see on the internet, they don't make me angry or sad or whatever. But on the deeper levels it feels like there is a structuring effect that stays with you after logging off.
This Zizek/Lacanian take talks about the internet as a space for capturing and neutralizing desire, "a fragmentation of perceptions and an impoverishment of the original physical organ," which I think resonates somewhat with my feeling.
This Zizek/Lacanian take talks about the internet as a space for capturing and neutralizing desire, "a fragmentation of perceptions and an impoverishment of the original physical organ," which I think resonates somewhat with my feeling.
entertainment
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I think for kids (the ones under 20 now) it's true that there is so seperation.
One thing I have been rather impressed by is the way they coin new phrases and words, which don't just replace old terms but which seem to also alter and intensify the meaning of the word.
Like 'rizz' for example, which simply abbreviates charisma but obviously doesn't just mean 'charisma'. The whole concept of charisma has been revamped, rejuvenated as a social category on account of the word 'rizz'. There is a gravitational force to it, it has a totally new cultural authority. The way the signifier creates its own signified.
One thing I have been rather impressed by is the way they coin new phrases and words, which don't just replace old terms but which seem to also alter and intensify the meaning of the word.
Like 'rizz' for example, which simply abbreviates charisma but obviously doesn't just mean 'charisma'. The whole concept of charisma has been revamped, rejuvenated as a social category on account of the word 'rizz'. There is a gravitational force to it, it has a totally new cultural authority. The way the signifier creates its own signified.
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If you were born post-internet it could seem akin to “why are all these old cunts with their blown minds from too many drugs trying to understand the obvious?”
If you were born and individuated before the internet took hold it’s more like a novelty psychedelic slowly degrading into toxic plasticity corroding cultural roots, where actual human contact and face-to-face networking historically structure and situate agency - internet as devolved habitus
If you were born and individuated before the internet took hold it’s more like a novelty psychedelic slowly degrading into toxic plasticity corroding cultural roots, where actual human contact and face-to-face networking historically structure and situate agency - internet as devolved habitus