#internal dehumanization

[soullessjack]

this is kind of a spitball but does anyone remember learning about the Japanese internment camps in WW2 and how all American-born Japanese citizens, including children and infants, were kept there on suspicion of being spies in the war? how “anyone with a drop of Japanese blood” qualified for incarceration? and everyone naturally responded to this with “how can a child or baby be a spy?” “how does being slightly Japanese make you a spy?” and everyone could so easily see the unfairness of that, but now with the case of Palestinian children and infants and American-Palestinian citizens, I have seen grown adults claim that the carpet bombings and air strikes and shootings and stabbings are all somehow fair, justified, deserved, etc. because they “grow up to be terrorists,” and it’s “Allah’s punishment for their sins.” that tiny little children “brought it on themselves” because god forbid a resistance group resists genocide.

we could see the unfairness then, enough for a fucking formal apology to be issued for it, but why can’t we see it now? is it because now it’s brown people facing unfair treatment and hatred and you can’t put them into your homogenous circle of whiteness like the Japanese? the words may be different, but dehumanizing language never changes. propaganda never changes, and neither does the American capacity for cognitive dissonance apparently.

[moonshynecybin]

oh i mean marcs crazy about his sport, more crazy than the others by a bit maybe but i actually meant he’s not not crazy outside his sport…? “off track im normal” chris hemsworth voice are you tho

i do wonder. how self aware of how crazy he is off track. like obviously on-track theres this feedback from fans media the other riders et cetera where theyre all kinda like. youre crazy and in fact a lil weird. and marc accepts that because hes a child prodigy who's won a buncha championships. its alienating but it lets him WIN ! but in terms of that off track stuff youre right i think he really wants people to think hes a hashtag regular guy (also maybe part of why he stuck to his hometown for a while among MANY other factors ofc) and thats fine. he wants people to get hes a person. but he ISNT normal and i always wonder. how aware of that he actually is. interpersonally. maybeeee theres also this thread where. okay because so much of his life IS dominated by racing/being in the paddock it gets subsumed into his "i have no friends that are competitors" post-valentino philosophy (that is. not entrirelyyyy true but not a lie either) and as a result he has no actual barometer for his ability to actually and for real be a normie....

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

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[callmecadian]

concept: a Dom who chooses your gender for you (every day if it's a 24/7 dynamic or just for whatever scene you're doing)

like forced fem, except sometimes it's forced masc and sometimes it's "you don't get a gender today; you're just an object"

[c0rpseductor]

i dont think tender romantic emet is even out of the question tbh like i definitely write a good portion of my own like Sweet Boyfriend Emet i just think he has a very particular roundabout sort of love language and anything else just doesn't feel like him and thus feels less sincere. to me.

Personally i think he's more inclined to be physically affectionate and use a lot of pet names but remain kind of closed off vis a vis his more difficult personal feelings. basically bc he's written as a fairly dissociative character he's always in the process of trying to stuff down or disown or sever emotional reactions that might be too vulnerable, so you have to keep that kind of frantic doublethink in mind when it comes to relationships. yeah he loves wol and he'll show that and it might be really obvious but he also won't say it and doesn't want to take it too seriously and he has to have SOME stupid little wall up

sorry for being like THE EMET EXPERT HAS LOGGED ON and doing this like so frequently im simply

[ratkingsystem]

i dont even mean this in a catchy, buzzword way but i really do think autistics trigger the fuck out of people with NPD. it keeps being a pattern in a VERY specific type of person in my work life. a lot of ppl w NPD have a very paranoiac sense of "everyone is trying to get me and tear me down" thing that comes w the grandiosity. not just 'wow i am great' but 'i will achieve greatness and i HAVE to and it won't be okay if i don't' and the fundamental belief that people 'lower' on the social hierarchy are secretly envious and making up ways to fuck you over and take what you have (yknow, bc Everything Is About You). being allistic on top of that - assuming your experience is default and everyone knows these minor social tics & anyone who doesn't respond in kind is being minorly petty at the very least - and you have someone for whom every little autistic social mishap is triggering the "secretly hates me is out to get me is trying to signal to me that i am cringe" alarms. i will play my tiny violin here and say if they see you as hot or conventionally attractive, they WILL NOT assume you are weird or neurodivergent, not in a billion years, they ONE BILLION PERCENT WILL ASSUME it's obvious that you are trying to signal you think you're better than them. it's really sad and it's a really stressful way to live but it helped me to understand WHY this dynamic was happening

[dragonmons]

i have so many fucking thoughts about marathon and i cant articulate them because theyre all happening all at once in my brain . literally ill be cleaning an autoclave at work or smth with hundreds of internal monologues overlapping eachother endlessly with the occasional discernible "TYCHO"

[thevalleyisjolly]

I wish literally any other one of the nominated movies this awards season won instead of Oppenheimer. No offence to the actors (although really, what the hell did RDJ do that was so exceptional), but I'm physically upset that they rewarded such an Oscar-bait movie.