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Pranav k's avatar

This is hilarious 😂 . I’m less interested in the moral arguments made and impressed with your analysis of the gamut of human personality expression. Autistic, neurotic, dark triad.

I’m from a culture (Jewish adjacent with arraigned marriage) that makes non-autistic mating really alien to understand. What do you mean you want “love” or dopaminergic release from the humdrum of life? Take resources maintain culture produce children idiot

Thanks for the in detail examination/exploration here

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Kryptogal (Kate, if you like)'s avatar

I wish you would've taken that whole middle section out and put it into a separate essay because it seems unrelated and was confusing to go through that whole stream of consciousness before you reverted back to your original topic. You're putting too much cognitive load on your readers to try to comprehend and even remember all the things you're talking about.

Anyway. I fully agree with you that the extreme modern allergy to mild and non-harmful violence is stupid, especially in a context where any non-physically violent cruel/aggressive behavior is considered acceptable, and when the violence IS considered acceptable only if it's called a kink or done for sexual reasons. That is totally stupid and makes no sense at all. The only even semi-legitimate justification I've heard anyone give is basically that there are too many stupid people who won't be capable of recognizing the line who will take it too far if we don't just say it's never okay at any level in any context for any reason. Personally a light versus hard slap versus a punch versus smashing an object into someone's face all seem easily distinguishable to me, but idk, maybe some people are that dumb and not in control of themselves.

However I hate how you tied it all into just being an expression of BDSM or sex dynamics outside of the bedroom, that made it very gross to me. Though I get why you did. And also can somewhat take some satisfaction in your serving the role of saying things that make the BDSM-rules-and-regulations-and-actually-it's-all-good-clean-fun people profoundly uncomfortable. I suppose we both have some desire to want to force those people to have to acknowledge and grapple with their own dark sides without tying it up in a neat partitioned-off bow, for different reasons.

That Connery clip had a weird effect on me bc I don't care about the slap advocacy, but I hate his explanation soooo much. The idea that he considers it his job that he gets to decide when "that's enough" and that he's "given the last word" is so profoundly infuriating and offensive to me, way more than a slap. Slapping someone because they just said/did something rude seems fine, but as far as I'm concerned someone who thinks they get to unilaterally decide when an argument is over deserves to die lol. So I suppose in one sense, hitting someone could actually provide clarity and be doing someone a favor as far as making it clear when they should be ready to get rid of you forever and break up with you. They might get strung along for too long with mere silent treatment or words/withdrawals, but a slap for a bad reason would provide a ton of time-saving clarity.

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