“self-love” has this frustrating marketing problem a lot of other things also have, that while in some sense it ought to refer to this broad universal thing, in practice it’s read as having an extremely narrow and specific “love and light” aesthetic many people don’t relate to
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there’s a kind of self-love you could describe as “courage” - the willingness to stand up to tyranny, even your own - and the aesthetics of that word are completely different. would attract a different crowd and nucleate a different scene
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I love this... Self-respect maybe rather than self-love? Or as well as?
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this is another word i like in theory but in practice i feel like its meaning has become very diluted somehow? i don't feel like people have a clear sense of what "respect" means anymore