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   novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 23:16:05 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

   If you're talking about how something is bad because it's "nerdy" and joking about BO and Cheeto dust when it's not in retaliation for someone being actually creepy or bad, but people just being excited about things and wanting to think about and analyze them, literally just fuck off. I don't want that kind of weird toxic "popular kid" culture around me that shames people for their interests or even obsessions. It's like "cringe" culture or kink shaming or slut shaming or whatever. It's like, an inch away from being mad at people for being autistic, tbh.

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     violetmadder (violetmadder@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 23:50:06 JST violetmadder

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     @anarchopunk_girl It's being mad at people for revealing the vulnerability of genuinely, personally liking something.

     We're only allowed to crave what advertisements and trends tell us we're supposed to want, and if you're not the best at getting it you will never be popular and must be punished with ridicule.

     Finding your own sources of enrichment and loving them for your own reasons is anathema to this system.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 23:52:47 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @violetmadder it's also shaming people for the depth of their interest, and the way they engage with their interests, too. Because if you get too deep into something, or engage with it in an analytical way because you like engaging with things that way, it's too "weird" for people

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     violetmadder (violetmadder@kolektiva.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 00:06:42 JST violetmadder

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     @anarchopunk_girl It's honest. It reveals something about your heart. Bully culture sees that as nothing but a vulnerability. The way chickens will turn on any member of the flock that has a speck of visible blood on them.

     I keep thinking about that one scientist that collected and catologued something like 1 million specimens of a particular type of itty bitty wasp over his lifetime. Granted not great for the individual wasps, but the body of research was incredible-- we need people who are passionate about obscure niche interests. Anyone who loves a thing that much should be given funding and all the tools they need to work.