A lot of the hippie-dippie crap about needing to be a "full and complete human" really deeply annoys me Like bluntly it is fundamentally ableist, anti-neurodiversity, all of that stuff Sorry I don't get any joy from washing and chopping my own lettuce Karen
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I mean all the different species of nerds are kind of assholes about this Tech nerds mad you want to never touch the default settings on your laptop Gearheads mad you have no interest in ever learning to drive stick
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Fitness nerds mad all you ever do is the default workout programmed into the treadmill at the gym Music nerds mad you just put on the Top 40 playlist on Spotify and half-listen to whatever it plays Foodies mad you just buy a premade sandwich in a plastic box every day
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I could get into how a lot of this is a class-status-signaling thing, that it's very much something that people with a certain amount of disposable income and free time do to let everyone know they're "keeping busy" But whatever
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The fact is the world is filled with too many things to care about, know about and be interested in, and it's completely okay to not care about any of them
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Good points. I’m reminded of how the male fashion advice subreddit has a “beginners guide” that’s like “try on dozens of different fits, compare brands, consult this colour wheel” when I just want to know how to avoid basic mistakes
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Replying to @BatarianSymp
That stupid viral thread about how "that bastard Beau Brummel destroyed men's fashions and cut men off from an entire avenue of self-expression that makes them less complete human beings" is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm talking about
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Replying to @arthur_affect
And in fact after people had been talking for *years* in much more practical terms about how the "fashion tax" is a serious feminist issue
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That women are seriously held back in life by *needing* to buy less durable, more varied, more expensive outfits to be taken seriously in their social class That just having to pay for and learn how to use makeup is this *massive* "tax" on women's money and time
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Replying to @arthur_affect
And instead of going along with the reasonable argument "Maybe we should all care less about this and judge people less on their appearance" this thread pops up making the *opposite* argument That if you're a man who doesn't like guyliner and silk shirts that's toxic masculinity
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I mean I kind of get the point -- "Hey why not even up the score by making men pay the 'tax' too? And then telling the men that paying the tax makes them more complete and emotionally expressive human beings?" But it was not a good argument
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I always read that thread as not saying prescriptively that men *should* be more varied, just as a complaint that they cannot be to the same extent as women.
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Replying to @LizardOrman @arthur_affect
Same with a side of seething awareness of how much that construct has to do with why other trans people misgender me (“if you’re not even going to try—” &c.), yeah Which isn’t to say I haven’t seen people turn around and use such information coercively as well, because… people
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