I have been struggling with this because a lot of people around me use it in this manner when they do something dumb or they act in an awkward way and they’ll be like “oh, that was autistic of me” or “I’ve got the tism” and I always feel so uncomfortable but I also don’t know how to raise it or what to say. I am myself not diagnosed, but I’m pretty sure I am on the spectrum. I was just wondering what you think of it and how you handle it.
You are conflating so many things right now. For someone who keeps harping on the original myths, you sure seem ignorant to the fact that pretty much everyone in Greek mythology is bi. Siding against anyone in any Greek myth usually means you’re “against” someone queer.
You are stretching SO hard to call me queerphobic while ignoring both the classical and modern definitions of the word. It’s akin to saying I hate vegans because I talk shit about Hitler.
Narcissists and psychopaths are not oppressed minorities. Insulting them is always punching up.
Do you have a horse in this race or something?
It’s not that he’s ace and you happen not to like him. It’s that it seems like you specifically don’t like him because he’s ace. At best, you’re victim blaming him for having been killed.
Victim blaming? This sounds like an early 2010s Tumblr caricature as depicted by an alt-right influencer that 99.99% of the left would call an invented strawman. It is beyond parody.
I’m having such a hard time believing anyone would defend narcissists that I’m convinced you’re just trolling me or you’re a narcissist yourself.
People have been making fun of that dead boy for two thousand years and I’m sick of it. He didn’t do anything wrong, he just lived in an aphobic society. I’m asexual and I’m sick to FUCK of seeing people like you walking around with an ancient Greek person’s moral compass when it comes to asexuality. He didn’t abuse anyone, he just wanted to be single. Why do so many people over two thousand years hate a child for wanting to be single?
Is it a pedophilia thing? Are you defending Ameinias’ point of view because you’re a pedophile too?
No one’s dunking on the fictional asexual child, bud. Plus People aren’t thinking about Greek mythology when they use the word.
Nice deflection at the end there, though.
You’re right, it’s not about Greek mythology for most people. I accepted that you were an exception, because earlier in this conversation you claimed it comes straight from Narcissus. But I’m glad I changed your mind, and persuaded you that people aren’t thinking about Greek mythology when they use the word. They’re thinking about ableist portrayals of people with NPD.
They’re thinking about neither, dude. No one gives a shit where the word comes from
The etymology informs the meaning. And the etymology is that a bunch of self-help books trained most people, including you, to be deathly afraid of a neurodivergent minority named after a queer child. Your entire understanding of NPD comes from pop culture ghost stories that you believed with all the gullibility of an easy mark.
If this were the 1980s you’d have just as easily been swindled into fear of the terrifying Satanists, and if this were the 1930s, you’d be falling for Hitler’s rhetoric about “the Jews”. “Oh, it’s okay to call them heebs. It’s punching up, since they control all the banks.” You’ve been tricked into thinking a vulnerable minority controls society.
No one gives a shit about the sexual orientation of a character from Greek mythology except you. Sounds like you based your entire opinion on a tumblr post titled “uhm actually, Narcissus was queer”
You’re trying so hard to be the victim here and it’s just not working. Because nobody is even thinking about the sexuality of, again, the FAKE PERSON whose sexuality is NEVER DEFINED from GREEK MYTHOLOGY.
You want him to be asexual so you can feel oppressed. Absolutely insane behavior. To quote the Germans: hobbyless behavior.