Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Real Men Do Not Want To Be Feared

Check out Real Men Do Not Want To Be Feared ("If your definition of 'a real man' comes from insecure, foppish charlatans like Gorka, Tate, and Cawthorn, it's time to find new role models who actually are 'real men.'")

More and more often, you don't need to read the article. This is why Twitter works so well, or used to, before Musk's crazy decision to increase to a 4000 character limit. 

 A few more:
Secure heterosexuals don’t try to act flamboyantly heterosexual.

Secure non-racists don’t try to act flamboyantly anti-racist.

Genuine people don’t try to project genuineness.

Honest people don’t try to project honesty.

Kind people dont try to project kindness.

Smart people don’t try to project intelligence.
5000 years into Civilization, we’ve compiled mounds of experience with the human race. So why do people still find this basic, self-evident stuff so phenomenally hard to grok?

For one thing, I repeat my assertion that autism - a disinclination or inability to traffic in the "seeming" end of things - might be an evolutionary improvement. Severe cases, of course, do bring stiff downsides, but you can't present an improvement while simultaneously fitting in smoothly.


Further reading:

Seemers Always Win: Posing as Someone Like You

Going All the Way in One's Shmuckery

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