hmmm
i started doing this rhetoric switch a few months ago when i just stopped using "postrat" and switched to saying "ingroup" exclusively
mostly bc whenever you say the p-word everyone is like "im not a postrat!!!!" but there is almost no protesting if you just say "ingroup"
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might have to adjust this
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I don’t actually know any of you that I’m aware of, and don’t think I’ve met or spent significant time with any of you irl or even in DMs.
The labels are fine for locating each other on social media maps. But the legit scene seems to be about 10 of you across Seattle and SF.
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I’m not. Seems like there’s a handful of you that do know each other socially from college or cohabitation and do meetups and parties. Afaict there’s an actual group beneath the running joke that it’s just a label. Might have been true when Sarah was calling it UST. Not true now.
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Yes it’s prickly. When scenes don’t own their actual existence and presence in the idea spaces they occupy, they tend not to take responsibility for their impact and effects. It doesn’t take a whole lot of people or particularly strong links to have these effects.
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Lol you used the word “us” after dismissing the idea of a “we” 😂
All I’m saying is — don’t dismiss the idea that the terms point to a real thing you’re part of even if you don’t see it, and that it might impose costs (feeling excluded/intimidated) on people hanging out nearby
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