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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      (Life is, unfortunately, more complicated than that and this isn't actually always true in abusive relationships among adults But if she came out and said "This wasn't abuse, this was consensual banter" it would have a much higher chance of being true)

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      Like okay I'm gonna go there David Bowie's famous scandal where he had sex with a 14-year-old and 15-year-old girl The two girls in question -- now women in their 60s -- adamantly deny that what happened was rape or abuse, they say Bowie was an awesome guy who treated them well

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      That's as may be They are, as adults, entitled to their own memories and their own account of events But even if everything they say is completely true... all that means is that Bowie took a wildly dangerous risk and "got away with it" That doesn't make it at all okay

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      This is what they call the "problem of moral luck" -- "no harm, no foul" is a shitty way to judge morality

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      If I get drunk and throw a Molotov cocktali at someone's house and burn it down and the homeowner says "Hey, good news! This place was an unsellable dump and now I can collect on the insurance! You did me a favor!" it doesn't mean I did something morally acceptable

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      You can't go around fucking throwing Molotov cocktails at people's houses and just hope that maybe they all belong to people who actually want their houses burned down

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      You can't go around taking advantage of kids for sexual pleasure and hope they all grow up to still say they had a great time and nothing bad happened till the day they die The evidence that it doesn't usually work out that way is far too common to claim you weren't aware of it

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      And no, this isn't as extreme as having sex with a child, okay, I'm deliberately using the most extreme possible example But that's the general response to adults arguing that you're demanding they "coddle" kids and act "too careful" with them You HAVE to be careful

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      Maybe all the adults who argue that they were spanked regularly as kids and "turned out fine" are telling the truth (I don't see much evidence that they turned out all that great, but whatever) So what if you're fine Plenty of people AREN'T fine

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      "I, personally, turned out fine" is not an argument for anything It's pure mindless narcissism "Well I don't ever wear a seatbelt and I've never died in a wreck" "I didn't get my shots and I never got measles" "I don't wear a mask and I've never tested positive for COVID-19"

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

      I mean, shit, look, if you and your spouse have these weird little challenges with each other where you don't eat until you've finished solving some kind of puzzle, whatever You're adults, that's your kink or whatever you wanna call it, you know the risks (RACK, as they say)

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          If *two kids* do this with each other, I think it's the kind of thing where an adult, reasonably, should step in and say "Hey this is unhealthy" Fuck if I do this to *myself* I think most normal people would say it's your parents' job to remind you that it's unhealthy

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          I mean shit that was literally me Left to my own devices I could easily play the same video game for 14 hours in a row with no breaks until I physically pass out Or spend that time arguing online, or frantically writing some essay, or going down a rabbit hole reading links

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          (I was gonna try to make this less of a 21st-century digital boy thing by saying "reading a book" but let's be real there's no single book that would take me 14 hours to read straight through And that's a humblebrag)

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          And you know what, it was my mom and dad's job to say "Hey, Arthur, you've been doing this a long time without a break, you need to take care of your body, come down and eat dinner"

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          (I wish they had done this with a better understanding of ADHD as a form of neurodivergence and not a character flaw called "absent-mindedness", but they still did it and I appreciate them doing it)

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          This is the exact opposite of that It's him forcing the objectively unhealthy behavior on someone who clearly *does not want to do it* and *didn't have the idea to do it* Like, Christ Would you be okay with a dad going "You're too sober, kid, you should join me in drinking"

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          However badly I may treat my body now, as an adult, I would be pissed at a grownup in my past who *forced* his own maladaptive and unhealthy coping mechanisms onto me through some weird projection

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          His original thread says that he personally feels like he's failed at "perseverance" in the past, that he's projecting this onto his daughter so she'll succeed where he failed, and she knows this and appreciates it Okay, I'm willing to believe all that It's still fucked up

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Of course I get what he means I'm the stereotypical guy who won't ask for directions either I know what it means to declare some meaningless task a matter of "honor" because you're running through all your life's past failures and you can't bear to fail one more time right now

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          The angel on your shoulder is going "Jesus Christ Arthur you don't know what you're doing, you're wasting your time on this, this old laptop is a lost cause, just buy a new one" And the devil is going "Oh you're gonna GIVE UP, like you give up on everything, because you're WEAK"

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        12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          "It's not even that much money, you needed a new computer anyway, you can afford it, and most importantly YOU'RE CLEARLY NOT GOING TO FIX IT EITHER WAY" "Just like you couldn't GRADUATE on time, just like you couldn't get a JOB, just like you couldn't fix your RELATIONSHIPS"

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        13. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          "This has nothing to do with that! If you did miraculously fix it it wouldn't go back and fix any of those things either! Stop connecting things that aren't connected!" "Don't you come at me with therapy talk, that's what they tell LOSERS to make them feel better about LOSING"

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        14. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          "Well okay, Arthur, if you insist on spending your whole weekend on this stupid project can you at least get some sleep and come back to it fresh? You're clearly not going to fix it in your current state" "NO That would mean I DESERVE to sleep, and losers don't DESERVE comfort"

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        15. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          It is, I think, not because I don't understand this kind of impulse but because I think I do, that I am so angry about him deliberately choosing to take this baggage he's carrying and dump it on a nine-year-old girl who doesn't have it yet

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        16. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Just like I, myself, fully admit I was terrified of having kids because I did not want to take this baggage and dump it on a brand-new human soul, or take the chance of doing it by accident Just like I'm still really fucking pissed that when I was nine I had it dumped on me

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        17. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          God you know what this reminds me of Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and "Asian-American icon"

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        18. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Just to prove this is "equal-opportunity" shit I am angry at this guy because he's a white guy and because he presented his story with a certain white-guy insouciance, like he doesn't even realize it's controversial But I hated Amy Chua's book more

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        19. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          I mean this was just a Twitter thread, that he tried to drop on the Internet as a cute funny innocent story Chua wrote a whole-ass book about this shit as this defiant self-righteous manifesto And she invested it with all this model minority Sturm und Drang

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        20. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          "This is how I HAD to raise my kids! I can't AFFORD to coddle them like those smug lazy white parents can! This is the only way I could give them the TOOLS to survive! This is the SECRET OF IMMIGRANTS' SUCCESS and what makes us BETTER PEOPLE" (her later book The Triple Package)

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        21. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          That's like my whole fucking childhood in manifesto form God I was so mad She was, literally, the author of all my misery

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        22. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          And the same litany of excuses for her (terrible, horrible, no-good very-bad) book too "Look, I was using humorous exaggeration to make my point Obviously I didn't stand next to my daughter during her piano lessons with strap in hand threatening to beat her"

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        23. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          "Obviously I didn't actually seriously literally go into my daughter's room and take all her frivolous purchases and smash them to bits in a fit of anger" Yeah okay well I would *almost* say that the attitude behind the acts is more important than the actual acts themselves

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        24. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Moreover, it's not that obvious See the thing is, and this is the important thing, that shit REALLY DID happen to me I WAS beaten, I DID have my stuff taken and smashed to pieces in front of me, I LITERALLY WAS shoved out the door of the house and told not to come back

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        25. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          That's what people mean when you say you can't joke about this shit I don't know that it's a hard and fast rule that you can NEVER joke about it, but people who do joke about it seem to think they're joking about wacky shit that only happens in cartoons

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        26. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          This is why people got so fucking pissed when we hit Peak Rape Joke in the 2000s, when the word "rape" was just used as an intensifier that was funnier than "kill" "I got totally gang-raped in PvP last night" Like it's just a colorful word like "eviscerated"

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        27. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          I dunno It's not fucking funny to me, because it happened to me, and not only did it happen to me but -- unlike what I think would've happened if I were killed or eviscerated or a piano fell on my head or whatever -- *people acted like it was normal and okay when it did*

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        28. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          *I* acted like it was normal and okay when it happened Not consistently or very well, but I pretended the way everyone else does I never actually openly told anyone about my dad breaking my arm until I was in my 20s My own sister found out it happened via the Internet

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        29. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          That's why it's so meaningless to me that Amy Chua went through this same litany of defenses Her own children trotting out "Look Mom is just talking about her stormy emotions she had when I was a bratty teen I love and appreciate her and feel lucky to have parents who care"

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        30. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Yeah okay I don't care, I'm still pissed Best case scenario, you're like an actress who participated in some shitty rape joke on TV and then came out and said "Oh come on guys he didn't actually rape me it was a bit"

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        31. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Jan 3

          Maybe they're lying, maybe in ten years they'll turn out to be just as bitter and broken as I am now Or maybe they're lucky, maybe they're like Lori Mattix gushing about getting to fuck David Bowie maybe they *wanted* that house burned down That just makes me madder at them

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