If you said some *specific phenomenon* could be attributed to social contagion then yes, you would be saying that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
If I said "People dyeing their hair bright colors is a result of social contagion among schoolchildren" then I would be saying people with brightly colored hair "were a contagion", by any reasonable understanding of that language
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
Which would be, in fact, a shitty thing to say But not nearly as consequential a thing to say as saying it about being trans, because hair color is much less central to identity than gender, and because there isn't already a deeply ingrained societal hatred of dyed hair
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
And a century's worth of western cultural and political narratives framing LGBTQ+ people as a societal illness or pestilence.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @rozietoez and
Yes, he did Those are the words he used Jesus Christ
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
You don't get to pick what your words mean once people actually read them The people who read them get to decide that I know you think that's a "Kafkatrap" or whatever but that's how language works
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
One could have a paragraph or two about the psychological concept. About how it’s an entirely neutral term. But, seriously, if it’s been years and people are still arguing about what Singal meant - maybe he didn’t write the section well! Maybe he’s a shitty writer?
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Replying to @greggentry1 @BlamKaboom and
This whole exchange is so pointless Jesse obviously does not use the term in a neutral way, IN THE ARTICLE he obviously uses "social contagion" as the opposite of someone having "genuine" dysphoria, that's the whole context of him bringing it up
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The very next paragraph is him defending bringing it up by saying teenagers accuse each other of "saying they're trans for attention" all the time, which he seems to think is an incisive gotcha argument
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Replying to @arthur_affect @greggentry1 and
Which, honestly, is how social contagion is used in behavioural sciences. The core definition may sound benign, but it's used to describe undesirable spreads, like waves of suicides. https://web.stanford.edu/~kcarmel/CC_BehavChange_Course/readings/Additional%20Resources/social%20contagion/Social%20Contagion.htm …
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