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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      But "empathy" in particular because people think it's actually a magical superpower of some kind -- the "empathy" so many people on the Internet talk about is clearly something that simply does not exist

      3 replies 2 retweets 20 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      There is no amount of emotion someone can feel, however intense, however justified, that will *actually cause someone else to feel that same emotion* I cannot feel sad *because* you are sad I can see that you are making a sad face, and I can react to that in my own way

      1 reply 3 retweets 21 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      But how specifically I react to that is a result of the combination of all the circumstances of your reaction -- the face you were making, the mood I was in when I saw it, the relationship between you and me

      1 reply 2 retweets 14 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      And it's not an actual magical thing where the sadness I'm feeling is *your sadness* It's *my sadness*, caused by your face (or your voice, or your posture, or the poem you wrote on your LiveJournal)

      1 reply 2 retweets 18 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      The way people talk about "empathy" is collapsing something that's actually very complicated into something magical and simplistic, because it's comforting All these physical metaphors -- by feeling your sadness I draw it out of you and take it into myself, I lighten your burden

      1 reply 3 retweets 16 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      (This is not actually possible in any sense whatsoever When you feel better by seeing that your sadness has made another person sad, this is actually a very complicated process contingent on many different factors Which is why it often, despite people's best intentions, fails)

      1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      There's a lot of really fraught shit all tied up in this kind of pat term "empathy" When we attack someone for "lack of empathy" making them a monster it's, by definition, policing another person's emotions, and that's a dangerous thing to do

      1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      "Lack of empathy" is not a failure of one person to literally feel another person's emotions, because *that is impossible* It is saying that the emotional reaction they had to another person's expressed emotional communication was incorrect/inappropriate

      2 replies 3 retweets 12 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      And that, well, is a can of worms It tends to happen a lot in life that the emotions other people have in reaction to our emotions aren't the reaction we *wanted* at all This can be very frustrating But that's the human condition, because we can't actually read minds

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      And I think that *sometimes* when people are constantly frustrated by other people's "lack of empathy" it is because for whatever reason that communicating emotion isn't automatic psychic powers, it's a fallible human process that sometimes takes effort to accomplish

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 28
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

      (Which takes us into "emotional labor" discourse, which is a whole other can of worms But I strongly believe when they say "women are more empathetic" they're not talking about magic powers or even "skill", just that women habitually do certain things that men don't do)

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        2. Garlax, The Weasel King‏ @TheWeaseKing Feb 28
          Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and

          I think the “women are more empathic” is both things that women are socialized to do that men aren’t, but also a lot of the time it’s also trauma-based hyper-vigilance. Trying to read others’ emotions to be able to take cover in time (metaphorically or otherwise).

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        3. Garlax, The Weasel King‏ @TheWeaseKing Feb 28
          Replying to @TheWeaseKing @arthur_affect and

          Happens to men too of course, but it’s pretty much expected of women a lot of the time.

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