think my SO and I are making a move on alpha couple status Um not to be confused with The Alpha Couple That was last time
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This is the Primary Motivational Pathway for normies.
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A little girl wants to be treated like X. Disney movies show princesses treated like that. The little girl now wants to be a princess.
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And this extra level of indirection actually means greater strength than the direct "want X".
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But I think the idea of "female role models" or "POC role models" is overblown. Lots of people have idealizations very different from them.
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And idealizations is the right term, not "role models", because the reality of the person in question tends to be irrelevant.
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It took me a long time to understand all this, because I don't work this way.
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Interesting. My way of looking at it is/has been: people mostly plan their lives around narratives, and more or less become tropes.
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It's obviously not Correct, but it's close enough and also efficient and satisfying So I'm happy to embrace it
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