But yeah so much of this is responding to power I'm falling back on Lacan a lot recently so yeah I'll name it the "discourse of the hysteric" (loaded as that term is in multiple ways) "I'm in pain, I'm a victim, I'm in danger and I'm scared", all of which is valid and true
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And nothing makes someone in that position *dangerous* faster than them realizing this arrangement is about to be disturbed When that power starts slipping away, when you can just fucking take what you want without paying the coin of performative pain
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This is what the dysphoria discourse boils down to I'm like really serious about this, even though I'm sure Jesse Singal will dismiss this as another "manic paranoid anti-science rant" This shit is Critical Theory 101, Baby's First Foucault
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Sigh. Yes.
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