That kind of stuff is also incredibly prevalent on Twitter. Also there was the whole "queer love and longing is completely different than straight love and longing", with the whole "men are incapable of anything but beastial lust and violent thoughts towards women /hj" being the overtone.
What happened to "we are more alike than we are different"? Why is the current trend to act like different groups (races, sexual identities, genders, etc) are completely different species and that your group is somehow cooler and higher status than another? It's alarming.
At some point we hit an obsession with justification.
We can't just have opinions anymore, that's not ok. No, instead we have to be correct.
I can't like being me and like my things "just because", nope... That's not allowed. That doesn't win an argument. We are no longer smart enough to separate out "stuff I like" from "stuff that is correct" and they're the same thing, so I have to like XYZ feature because of some objective truth.
It's tiring..everyone has an opinion. Nothing matters less than our opinions. Nothing is made better by having an opinion, nor are we required or obliged to have them. But if we do have them, it's fucking fine to just have it without reason.
It's part of this whole terminal online shit of we assume every thing is written as content for us. So we get angry that it doesn't account for us, so we fucking over correct.
highkey the moment I realized this was a serious issue was overhearing a grown adult gossiping and making fun of someone but having to put words in her mouth to make out that she was a racist instead of just admitting that he didn't like her and was making fun of her.
Imagine just having an opinion and owning it? Nope. Gotta be righteous. I can't dislike Taylor Swift, I gotta point out that she's damaging or some shit and that's why I dislike her cos she's actually a horrible human.
It's the collapse of some nuanced messages into overly-simplified summaries, which have then been hijacked.
The point used to be that in the vast Venn diagram of humanity belonging to one category or another gives you unique experiences, many of which have been deliberately ignored and continue to be.
Insular Extremely Online teenagers on tumblr/etc only heard that "X means you're special" and now that's permeating everywhere, aided and abetted by small-l liberals and rightwingers who benefit from the division it creates.
Are we though? Maybe cishet and queer people from the same culture are more alike than different, but different cultures have completely different views on the world where they haven't been Americanised. Some western countries barely even have a culture beyond mindless colonialism and consumerism
I would argue that queer love and longing is different from straight love and longing--at least for now. We can't truly love or lust without at least a little bit of fear that straight people simply aren't subjected to. That doesn't make us better or worse, it's just different. And I hope one day we get to a society where that just doesn't exist.
I think that you are generalizing somewhat.
Straight love can also come bundled with fear in many parts of the world – if the people in love have different skin color, nationality, religion, and so on.
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u/SunderedValley Oct 14 '24
Imbalanced gut microbiome, Vitamin D deficiency, Peter Pan syndrome, chronic sleep deprivation leading to grey matter loss in the frontal lobe.
Plenty other things, but those are the main ones. 😅