The 90s
It's the 90s all over again. Remember Sensitive New Age Guys? Yeah, it was horrible and it did nothing to dismantle Patriarchy.
In the 90s dudes got sucked into the SNAG shit and became simpering, smug little pricks. They didn't become better, they became useless.
When people try to deal with real emergencies with bullshit that has no grounding in anything real, you just create more arseholes.
Almost any hastily thrown together protest is far better than bullshit demands of normal people that they change who they are.
But, telling follks to Be Better suits a lot of people who are neither action nor ideas oriented. Or about outcomes. It's one big performance.
Unfortunately we're storytelling creatures who sometimes delusionally use story telling techniques to try to force people into a new story. It has never worked.
Movements can't be driven by slogans and our real stories shouldn't be compressed into the solid cube of a hashtag. We *are* better than that.
In the 90s dudes got sucked into the SNAG shit and became simpering, smug little pricks. They didn't become better, they became useless.
When people try to deal with real emergencies with bullshit that has no grounding in anything real, you just create more arseholes.
Almost any hastily thrown together protest is far better than bullshit demands of normal people that they change who they are.
But, telling follks to Be Better suits a lot of people who are neither action nor ideas oriented. Or about outcomes. It's one big performance.
Unfortunately we're storytelling creatures who sometimes delusionally use story telling techniques to try to force people into a new story. It has never worked.
Movements can't be driven by slogans and our real stories shouldn't be compressed into the solid cube of a hashtag. We *are* better than that.
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