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Cake day: November 4th, 2023

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  • I understand not every predatory sexual behavior towards young people is pedophilic, because young people vary in age and maturity.

    However, this is such a strange and uncalled “technically correct” reply, why would we care enough to differentiate between hebephile or whatever it is called and pedophile. Nobody cares, it’s still predatory and gross behavior no matter the name.









  • It’s very important to give context on the diagnosis. Any psychiatric diagnosis is heavily tied to its historical context. Autism as a diagnosis was not the same in the 1970s with the first DSM as it was in 1994 with DSM-IV and we didn’t talk about spectrum until 2013 with DSM-V. “Back in our day we called that an engineer” that’s because some things that are listed as disordered were not a disorder back then.

    But yes, I get your point that while some would be put in institutions, others wouldn’t be seen as disordered. I should have given it some thought before my comment.

    I think that some of my reluctance with OP is that not all autism in the past was the “quirky engineer” one, there were already people being severely abused for a condition that didn’t even have a name yet.







  • This is less a psy-op thing than it is a product of Western society’s history - and I don’t mean it as in “capitalism is bad and everything I don’t like is caused by it”, but literally living in such individualist society makes people live or want to live in smaller groups as much as they can afford it. And it dates before capitalist rise, in my opinion.

    However… I don’t think living in smaller groups, like living alone or with a +1, is inherently a bad thing. As people said here, there may be multiple reasons one would like to departure from their parents’ house, a lot of them are genuine and to have this option is a good thing. What I see as a bad thing is that each house is meant to be a world by its own and in some places and contexts we don’t have any community bond. This phenomenon contributes to anomie in Durkheim’s sense, in my opinion.