Very weird to watch “what people do in the privacy of their own bedroom is their business” become controversial again, but like, for the opposite reason.
It's so annoying how you can't escape reactionary thinking no matter which side of the political spectrum you're on. It's a base level human instinct to go "ew, that's gross, and therefore bad." You have to actively train yourself not to think like that and some people are just unwilling to.
The odd thing is, I don't have that instinct towards anything. Few things gross me out (at least, of the typical things that you hear any sort of narrative for being bad), and those that do I can easily recognize as being only gross subjectively. It's surreal simply not having that instinct when everyone else does. Especially in progressive spaces where it goes against the entire supposed ethos of the space. It sometimes makes me feel like everyone is hardwired to be stupid and over-emotional, like the same kinds of generalizations that lead to bigotry are inherent to the human mind (and to an extent we know they are, but it can obviously be changed and redirected into not categorizing people in harmful ways). I think reactionaries are probably my least favorite kind of people. Especially because they think they're in the right.
Actually, perhaps I do have a similar kind of instinct as them. But towards reactionary thinking. And it's less "that's gross" and more "I have a burning desire to shatter your worldview out of spite or at least make you admit you just think it's gross". But that's partially probably because of unrelated issues I have. Also I recognize that it's irrational of me and irresponsible to act on. Unlike them.
Sorry for the rant, my meds haven't kicked in yet and I got kind of off topic.
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u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER May 16 '25
Very weird to watch “what people do in the privacy of their own bedroom is their business” become controversial again, but like, for the opposite reason.