If you believe the problem is indeed that they "choose not to" change then that's a reason to avoid medicalized terminology, especially because there are people who very much use it in this eugenic sense of identifying people diseased from birth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jdr____llc
I'm beginning to understand why the right thinks us lefties want to police all thought. All this pedantic nonsense and needless ethical agonizing is completely ridiculous on it's face. I see no advantage to pointing out how a word is used by worse people in a different context.
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Dude, Arthur is not “policing” anything, he’s having an opinion in public. It’s okay.
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People who really get heated up about "language policing" raise a lot of questions for me Like what, exactly, was so awesome about the word you were using that makes you so unwilling to give it up What is the function it's performing that you find so useful
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Replying to @arthur_affect @viveka and
Like the whole thing about the word "narcissist" is that, on the superficial level, it's *not* a term of abuse It's not like saying "asshole" or "motherfucker" or "piece of shit" or just "jerk" It has an air of clinical detachment to it, of objectivity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @viveka and
It does not have either of those things in common usage. It’s used exactly the same way ‘asshole’ and ‘motherfucker’ are
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Lol no If someone cuts you off in traffic your first impulse is not to scream "You delusional narcissist!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @viveka and
It might not be an expletive but there’s no context where it’s ever anything but an insult
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Yes, and in reality that's how the word "obese" is used too I am explaining exactly why I think it's a *worse* insult because it's a *stealth* insult
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Replying to @arthur_affect @viveka and
‘Obese’ has a ton of use as a clinical term in the mainstream though. ‘Narcissist’ is not and has never been a stealth insult in any imaginable way. It’s purely an insult in every context outside the DSM5
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It is, at the very least, a word with a very different tone from "asshole" It *purports* to be an objective description of someone's attitude or behavior
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Replying to @arthur_affect @viveka and
Yeah it’s a descriptive insult but lots of insults are descriptive. They’re still just insults.
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Okay I'm straight up telling you bluntly then that you're wrong
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