Makyui
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- Posted: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:29:37 +0000
PantsOnHeadTard
Yeah okay.
Thanks for the tips.
I'll be sure to file them away with the rest of the self-serving "advice" that ignorant people who don't actually give a s**t love to dish out. Advice that always, in truth, only seems to benefit them while hindering the people it's offered to, strangely enough.
How silly of us to use "arbitrary" labels in a language riddled with "arbitrary" labels. Clearly you are the real authority on which labels and shorthand language should acceptibly be applied. Because you just are! Which seems to be everywhere except in the matters of sexual minorities. Yes, that's reasonable and not othering at all.
There's clearly nothing arbitrary about drawing the line at 'asexuality' but not 'heterosexuality' or even 'sexuality'. Hell, let's get rid of the concept of sexual preference altogether and just slide them into "things that make us feel good". This sure is freeing and totally not unclear and confusing. This will surely make discussions about topics specific to our interests so much easier! Or would choosing to draw the line there also be arbitrary?
I'll also be sure to excise 'chihuahua' out of my vocabulary and refer to my pet as 'tiny four-pound, curly-tailed, round-headed dog from Mexico'. It doesn't matter how different they are from Great Danes, they're all just dogs, right? Breeds are just social constructs and the lines between them are sometimes blurry and prone to change, so they might as well not exist at all! This'll surely make discussions specific to chihuahuas easy to understand and not impossibly unweildy. But wait, why arbitrarily draw the line at breed and not species? So forget dog, we're going to talk about tiny four-pound domesticated canids with curly tails and rounded heads from Mexico.
Boy, this was a great idea! I'm so glad we don't have to deal with arbitrary labels anymore. There's so many to memorize! And people are trying to add more? Holy s**t!
No... No, really, if I'm being "melodramatic" (lol) here and "closing my mind" (double lol), it's only because, believe it or not, you're not actually offering anything novel, and actually being sort of ridiculous. I know that's hard to believe, since you're used to having your opinions weigh more by default, but it's true. You're not here to learn. You're here to preach. And you don't know what you're talking about.
Asking us to remove the only tools we have to describe ourselves (as--shock and awe--humans communicate concepts through constructed language) does nothing but make it harder to defend ourselves against the people who like to pretend that we only exist as a broken version of the majority that need to be fixed (an arbitrary idea in itself, actually, who'da thunk). It's a proven FACT that when a language is missing the words for a concept, it becomes hard to understand and talk about that concept. Try explaining a direction to someone in a language without directional words. Introducing new concepts and teaching people about them IMPROVES people's understanding, which is why things are better now for sexual minorities than they were a few decades back when the only words to describe them were "sexual deviant", because straightness was the only accepted sexuality. Not perfect, granted, but undeniably better. (But clearly we have no idea what we're doing.)
You can't possibly say that, for instance, having the DSM group asexuality as just another sexual disorder is actually BETTER than listing it as a distinct identity separate from sexual disorders--which, by the way, got new names to reflect this. (Oh s**t, you mean the DSM is constantly adding and removing and editing and refining its diagnostic definitions? Madness! Let's get rid of arbitrary labels and just lump everyone under "sick".) And I wonder what brought this change about. Raising it as a concept and bringing it into the discussion? Naw, surely not.
And that's the funny thing. Even if we stopped labeling ourselves? Other people are going to label us in our stead. And they are not always kind about it. But hey, why allow us to have the power to label ourselves? That's like... empowering or something. And we can't have that. Better to just be quiet so that our oppressors have the only voice and all the control over the discussion. That's totally how we fix problems. We wouldn't want to be a "special snowflake" by insisting that we actually exist and actually have value as humans, and aren't just broken ones that need "fixed" in order to be happy and healthy and true humans.
Apparently introducing and teaching people new concepts is so hard. It's as though it hasn't been going on for thousands of years. Much better to just dismantle the English language in its entirety. Or, yanno, disappear into obscurity.
I mean, updating concepts as we learn more things about them? Learning new words as new concepts develop? What the ******** is that nonsense? I mean, who ever heard of a 'smart phone'?
Then again, you have to actually want to try to learn, instead of just using your ignorance as a bludgeon to knock people down because you prefer your sense of superiority.
Your abitrarily awarded sense of superiority.
And we're done, Pants. Honest and for true. I'm not talking to you anymore. There is literally nothing left to say.
i'm sorry kitsune I promise I'm really done
