They paywalled My articles? They're not supposed to do that, I have monetisation disabled! I can't see a paywall in incognito mode, can you share a screenshot of the paywall?
Until I get this sorted out, here's an alternative frontend
I don't even think that employee was being a dick. He's a man, the customer was calling for a woman. How's he supposed to know she wanted his help if she won't say so? She was just bad at communicating with her words, not his fault.
Oh yeah you might be right about most of the "homosexuality is a choice" guys. I wrote that article right after Nick Fuentes got caught looking at gay porn, so I was thinking about that cliche.
Oh yeah statistically it's gotta be that some homophobes are queer. Queer people are 10% of the population, and homophobes are even higher. Two groups that large, there's got to be crossover. Historically, it would have been even moreso the case.
I'm just unconvinced that queer people are the majority of homophobes because that makes no sense, and I'm unconvinced that the study randomly found mostly bi homophobes. The sheer prevalence of the gay homophobe trope is out of proportion with the conditions that would have been capable of creating homophobia in society in the first place and sustaining it.
For one thing, the study asked the men to rate themselves on the Kinsey scale. Those men fully believed they had never felt attraction to another man. And only 20% of the homophobes showed no penile reaction. Meanwhile, 66% of the gay-accepting men had no reaction.
Actually, it was Nemesis, the god of divine punishment for hubris. Nemesis' job is to punish any mortal who thinks they're the equal of the gods. And in Greek society, asexuality and aromanticism were so villified that not dating anyone was equated with thinking you're equal to the gods. It's a nonsense stereotype kind of like the American/English stereotype that trans women are sexual predators.
When Narcissus was born, an oracle warned his family "This boy will die if he sees his reflection". But it's unclear whether Narcissus falling in love with his reflection is a natural character trait, or something Nemesis cursed him with in addition to showing him the spring. It would have looked the same either way to the oracle. Either way, Nemesis knew she was killing Narcissus on purpose, just to answer the prayers of an incel who was mad he wouldn't date them.
Other fun facts: Narcissus was 16 when all of this happened. He was 16, and society already thought he owed other people his love or he should die.
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/narcissus-wasnt-an-abuser-he-was-queer-15a74e456838
Oh, it gets worse. While NPD has a genetic component, like all personality disorders it seems to be triggered by early childhood trauma. It would seem that if you get abused by your parents badly enough to get a personality disorder, genetics determine whether you get NPD or something else like BPD. The hatred of people with NPD is victim blaming. It's saying you're evil cause your parents abused you. Here are My other articles about NPD:
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/anarcho-narcissism-b647c8062173
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/why-reactionaries-hate-pride-and-narcissists-938d39261f13
I recommend reading the article, I'm very proud of it.
I wrote this article because I was inspired by something Ian Danskin recently said. See, he used the word n***c***stic as an insult in a recent video. I spoke to him about it, and he agreed to remove it as it's ableist, and left a comment on the video discussing the issue. I'm very grateful that Ian cares about disability issues. But he also said he's disappointed that psychologists named a mental disorder after the Greek myth, and that got Me thinking. Is the original Greek myth worth making cultural reference to, if the word were not an ableist slur? So naturally, I analysed the myth, and discovered that it's queerphobic, heteropatriarchal, and vaguely ephebophilic. Turns out there's no good reason at all to use the word as an insult, even if you're referencing Greek mythology!
I find that fact kind of beautiful, because it defangs excuses used by ableists that they were referring to Greek mythology all along. If they really were, well their words suck just as bad. So they can't hide behind such excuses anymore.
Anyway now I stan Narcissus as an aroace king 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 🖤🤍💜
If you'd like help understanding those hard to follow parts of the article, I'd be happy to explain them in more detail. In fact, I might be able to edit the article to improve its clarity if you can tell Me what parts are lacking.
It makes sense when you realise that two-spirit isn't what two-spirit people call themselves at home. In their own tribe's cultural context, everybody knows the specific name for their gender and what it culturally means. Two-spirit was invented on purpose as a shorthand for describing dozens or hundreds of different things in a language people outside that one single tribe can all understand. It's as manufactured and as broad as the sequence of letters "LGBT", an umbrella term that arose during a specific cultural moment as part of a push for equality.
Thank you! If I get more reports of paywalls I'll switch to posting scribe links by default. Hopefully this was a one-off bug.