They aren't; a refusal to identify as a competitor (and instead to identify with the mother/"women") is equivalent to a "signaling drive", but it also suggests a psychosexual causal mechanism in addition to describing the behavior. I figure Freud wouldn't invent a new word.
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Replying to @simpolism @eigenrobot
Freud loved inventing drives though (e.g. his death drive is pure invention).
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One thing I notice is that all ideologies seem to have some kind of psychosexual underpinning. marxism -- promise of free love after dissolution of families into communes feminism -- leveling of sexual competition monarchism -- tradwives? libertinism?
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @eigenrobot
You know how they say "sex sells"? They weren't talking about consumer goods.
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Less pithily: Eric Hoffman's "The True Believer" claims that "the frustrated" are the ones who ultimately take up radical ideologies. What sort of "frustration" might he have meant?
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Replying to @simpolism @eigenrobot
the frustration of coastal whites in america's cities seems to be primarily sexual
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @eigenrobot
Well, maybe. But also maybe not (thanks
@sonyaellenmann for the link).https://delicioustacos.com/2012/05/22/theyre-gonna-hang-my-cock-from-the-rafters/ …2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes -
every time I read his stuff its like man youre stuck at 19 but youre 40 and it sure seems like youre not gonna change and pal the fault lies not in your stars
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Replying to @eigenrobot @simpolism and
I'm not gonna lie reading that was the first time in months I've felt the sensation of like, I dunno if there's a word for it but it's a combination of disgust and pity with a thin coating of angry-cause-he-gives-men-a-bad-name on top
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot and
"how the other half lives" but it's reasonably normal people having depressing casual sex
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I can't think of anything more likely to fast-track you to nihilistic despair than sabotaging your evolutionary mechanism for satisfaction
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