That Codes as Low Status!
You gotta know the rules before you break them.
Low Status: Talking about things in terms of status High Status: Obfuscating status hierarchies in the language of "taste" Low Status: Overtly doing anything instrumentally as a means of acquiring status High Status: Doing anything "for its own sake" while obfuscating instrumentality Low Status: Conscious abstract knowledge of social mores known in your head High Status: Unconscious intuitive knowledge of social mores felt in your bones Low Status: Talking openly about power dynamics Medium Status: Peddling insincere leveling platitudes to smooth over resentment High Status: Actually deploying power Low Status: Writing about people / relationships in an autistic categorical way that makes a statement Medium Status: Writing in a visceral emotive way that unapologetically eschews structured ideas High Status: Doing the former while making it feel like the latter Low Status: Overt boasting Medium Status: Plausibly deniable status signaling High Status: Subtextually self-aggrandizing self-deprecation Low Status: Asking people for things Medium Status: Giving people things High Status: People offering you things Low Status: Telling someone not to do something High Status: Conveying outcome independence Low Status: Pursuing your group interests directly Medium Status: Pursuing them via an intermediary e.g. azns with affirmative action High Status: Attacking your own group to pull up the ladder on rivals Low Status: Fungible goods like cash Medium Status: Rank, social capital, or transactional power via sex appeal or charm High Status: Intellectual influence, informal leadership, structural dependencies Low Status: Being overtly confrontational Medium Status: Being conciliatory and friendly High Status: Being ostensibly chill while covertly provoking rivals to seem envied Low Status: Direct statement Medium Status: Implication and suggestion High Status: Dissonance and reverse psychology Low Status: Making fun of someone or insulting them Medium Status: Expressing concern for them or giving advice High Status: Claiming to envy them while subtly framing yourself as better Low Status: Directly going after your rivals Medium Status: Deploying a catspaw to avoid blowback High Status: Provoking them to self-destruction with total plausible deniability Low Status: Direct overt transactionality e.g. venmo Medium Status: Mediated transactionality e.g. buying her flowers High Status: Plausibly deniable transactionality e.g. subsidizing her fake business Low Status: Mediating transactionality materially through simple logistics Medium Status: Mediating through something that individuates to your dynamic High Status: Offering yourself as vector for indulging her masochism as self-harm Low Status: Any sort of resentment or envy Medium Status: Contentment and happiness High Status: Ennui, boredom, existential angst Low Status: Being friends with White guys who actually build useful things Medium Status: Being friends with the White girls whose pussy/approval they crave High Status: Being friends with the gay guys and nonwhite girls worshipped and feared by White girls Low Status: Directly insulting someone Medium Status: Complimenting or praising someone High Status: Praising someone in a way that elevates yourself but they can't challenge Low Status: Schemes that rely on the enemy fucking up Medium Status: Schemes that game around your enemy being a capable rational actor High Status: Schemes that can't fail because you'll always rewrite history with plausible deniability Low Status: Planning or conscious effort High Status: Carefree spontaneous sprezzatura Low Status: Accountability, consistency, punctuality Medium Status: Fickleness and flakiness High Status: Plausibly deniable sadism Low Status: Scalability, efficiency, inclusion, iteration High Status: Curation, exclusion, discrimination, snobbery Low Status: Formal codes of conduct Medium Status: Unspoken social convention High Status: Arbitrary fiat of the powerful Low Status: Trying hard not to be disgusting and failing Medium Status: Being pleasant and following the rules High Status: Getting away with being disgusting or doing low status things Low Status: Screens High Status: Embodied meatspace Low Status: Texting with lots of smilies and formal punctuation Medium Status: Texting in performatively nonchalant lowercase fuckboy affect High Status: Texting everyone like they're an Uber Eats driver Low Status: Being sedentary Medium Status: Lifting weights and combat sports High Status: Cardio and outdoor activities Low Status: Overtly second-guessing others' motives High Status: Pretending to take them at face value Low Status: Good faith persuasion High Status: Making people think their exploitation was their idea Low Status: Asymmetric life strategies Medium Status: Conventional paths to success High Status: Post scarcity bohemian nonchalance Low Status: Acquiring fungible or lower order status markers Medium Status: Converting base goods to higher order goods, holding onto power High Status: Hurting people Low Status: Someone who cares about you Medium Status: Someone who ignores or insults you High Status: Someone who exploits or tortures you Low Status: Your own preferences Medium Status: Preferences of your role models and rivals High Status: Preferences of people you want to fuck Low Status: Admitting any of this is true Medium Status: Dunking on me for overthinking it High Status: Intuitively feeling deep contempt for the very notion of such a list
"High Status: Texting everyone like they're an Uber Eats driver" — The truest of them all.
Hate it, but true.