#been thinking a lot recently about the pop psychology pathologization industry
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the urge to sort and categorize and make a neat little list is so soothing
but watch out
when applied to human beings and other forms of life, and especially when driven by fear, it becomes a high speed rail path to dehumanization!!
#been thinking a lot recently about the pop psychology pathologization industry#like as an anti abuse advocate it fucking grinds my gears because everyone starts fixing on the labels rather than the underlying actions#and people will be like oh i could never harm someone!! im a good person!! and then turn around and dehumanize and rip into people#watched a good video today that has me firmly cemented in my choice to retire trying to talk about a very specific kind of abuse with a ver#specific label#because now there's right wing christian cottage industries weaponizing that as part of wider authoritarian and fascist conditioning pushes#always better to talk about the actions themselves and the power structures that entrench them than look for a button which decrees#that everything someone does is inherently evil#like is that reassuring for people who have been hurt? yes. is it productive? no#and can often result in further harm being done#there's a lot of nuance in navigating situations where someone HAS done harm especially over the long term and the suffering inflicted is#very potent but where malice was not necessarily involved and it is really hard#and even in situations where malice IS involved people especially in groups will be eager to then reach for punitive and carceral responses#and it's so hard to thread the needle as both an advocate and serial abuse survivor and i can see why people prefer the binary approach#but we gotta do better
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