It's single issue, tribal (deal with it), people who do this. They associate a whole range of positions to you based on one tweet because they genuinely can't understand that someone could not pick a team and take on all their positions at once.
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I once questioned the claim that men earn more because women avoid dirty jobs by pointing out that caring jobs involving much cleaning up of bodily waste are done primarily by women. (I thought the people/things divide much more significant)
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I was immediately assumed to be a feminist who thought the pay gap was real & unjust, assumed to deny gender differences, hate men, think I lived in a patriarchy &, inexplicably, to favour open borders and be an Islamophile.
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All these connections happen in people's heads when you say one thing. I'm expect this pattern-making tendency has been useful in evolutionary terms but it really does get in the way of conversation.
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I want to dig up a thread of me talking about etymology for pages. If I only talked about things that were more important than anything else, I'd have some seriously fucked up priorities.
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