Note the exquisite logic-chopping in the replies over which displays are mandatory and which forbidden. Astonishing! People actually live like this.
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Note that the essay is about maximizing your group's palatability _when your group is explicitly political and in recruiting mode_. That is, building activist groups. But these people want to apply it to...SFF fandom? It's a kind of twee militarism.
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It's like that can't socialize without stringent rules of conduct. Personal interaction is transactionalized. I don't think I could function like that.
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Their natural community is fundamentalist religion, but being raised prog severs that option for them. I just wish they'd stop shitting up free spaces.
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Reading the original essay, I can't tell what the deviance is supposed to be. Tofu menus? Pressed shirts? Howling rituals? I'm lost in the cascade of objection.
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"a married monogamous bisexual ciswoman noting her sexuality aloud (at an appropriate time and in an appropriate context) to avoid otherwise implicit erasure?":
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autists not wanting to navigate this neo-Versailles bullshit:


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"Neo-Versailles" is a very useful and perceptive epithet.
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It means "DO IT TO JULIA! NOT ME!"
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