Thank you Robyn, excellent writing. You helped clarify things with the timeline, you can't make something better if you don't understand it. Here's hoping it reaches the people who need to hear it.
Thank you Robyn, excellent writing. You helped clarify things with the timeline, you can't make something better if you don't understand it. Here's hoping it reaches the people who need to hear it.
It depends on which "they" we are talking about. I'm not referencing those that are all in, I'm thinking about the ones that could still be swayed. It's ridiculous to try and fix those that are already lost.
This this this. There is always a first time an individual "gets online", a first time they read an article, a first time they read an article on a particular topic, a first time they brave the comments, etc. I am sick to death of the "I can't believe anybody is acting this way in the year 20xx!!!!" reflex. Nobody is born religious. nobody is born prosocial. nobody is born rape cultured. And nobody develops an online presence magically protected from bad ideas or predatory rhetoric.
Thank you Robyn, excellent writing. You helped clarify things with the timeline, you can't make something better if you don't understand it. Here's hoping it reaches the people who need to hear it.
It won't. They are quite happy with the way things are.
They aren't. That's the truly sick thing about this. None of this shit actually makes them happy.
Stockholm Syndrome?
I suppose. There's prolly a word for it that I can't think of that explains why they won't change.
equality feels like oppression to them.
Cussedness?
Ignorance. Quite a few of them don't believe happiness is even possible.
It depends on which "they" we are talking about. I'm not referencing those that are all in, I'm thinking about the ones that could still be swayed. It's ridiculous to try and fix those that are already lost.
This this this. There is always a first time an individual "gets online", a first time they read an article, a first time they read an article on a particular topic, a first time they brave the comments, etc. I am sick to death of the "I can't believe anybody is acting this way in the year 20xx!!!!" reflex. Nobody is born religious. nobody is born prosocial. nobody is born rape cultured. And nobody develops an online presence magically protected from bad ideas or predatory rhetoric.