EvilHomer - 2015-06-24
She presents a good argument. However, she undermines her own message by repeatedly using the word "deHUMANIZING" to describe what she believes to be the negative consequences of using the word "crazy". De-HUMAN-izing!!! The word "dehumanizing" is incredibly speciesist and marginalizes the experiences of non-humans; given the fact that she's talking about otherkin, or trans-speciesed non-humans, it is likely the most inappropriate word she could ever possibly use.
Uhhh, yes. They are Otherkin. They WANT to be deHUMANized. That is the whole point.
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jangbones - 2015-06-24 I can not absorb a single word she is saying because of her voice, sing-song delivery, and STOP FUCKING MOVING YOUR HEAD LIKE THAT
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Old_Zircon - 2015-06-24
If you ever want to have a lively conversation, bring up the Social Sciences when you're hanging out with an ACTUAL scientist.
Anthropology is OK, though.
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pressed peanut sweepings - 2015-06-24 Physical anthropology and archaeology, at any rate. I'm not so sure about cultural anthropology.
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That guy - 2015-06-24 The social sciences are completely different depending on methodologies. They just get called the same subject at different universities for some reason. Someone could have a PhD in one and be full of information or shit.
Usually bet on shit.
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kingarthur - 2015-06-24 As someone who was once working on a doctorate in psychology, it depends on the school and the students.
Psychology, thanks to the APA, has thankfully started to move (as of a decade ago) into the realm of more brain science and away from allowing chakras and shamans into the practice.
Sociology is a science as well, as it's studying social dynamics via statistical analysis and normalizing based on statistical evidence.
You can't hook a living organism's brain up to a chemical monitor at every step of a process in a clinical lab and expect to get a real measure of normalized behavior.
The major gripe you get coming from the physical sciences is that they don't understand any sociological or psychological discipline that doesn't involve a tangible substance they can poke with a pipette. My girlfriend's a chemist and we have this argument regularly.
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kingarthur - 2015-06-24 I should also point out that sociology is NOT the same as social justice or the popular conception of what social justice seems to be in this day and age.
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kingarthur - 2015-06-24 Psychologically and sociologically, at least in real scientific terms, you would describe "otherkin" as engaging in collective fantasy as a way of escaping from something they can't deal with, probably life.
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That guy - 2015-06-25 I retract my "usually bet on shit".
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ashtar. - 2015-06-24
The problem with otherkin is that they're *not* crazy. They're deluded because they choose to be.
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The Mothership - 2015-06-24
You lost me at hashtag and tumblr, honey.
5 stars for introducing me to the term 'neurodivergent people'.
Now THAT's crazy.
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Waugh - 2015-06-24
come, armageddon
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Waugh - 2015-06-24 yes i think the portal of evil diaspora are the perfect arbiters on the subject of ableism, and it's totally not gross or pathetic for what has to be a grown man to pick out a twenty-year-old girl's vlog and condescend to it
what
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FABIO - 2015-06-24 Leave Britney alone!
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Nominal - 2015-06-25 Time to take down all the roof jump wrestling videos, guys. Making fun of teenagers is NOT COOL!
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Waugh - 2015-06-25 if you're going to argue by analogy, at least try not being completely shit at it
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Potrod - 2015-06-25 Of all the reasons to hold poetv in contempt, I would not have guessed this would have been waugh's.
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Ugh - 2015-06-24
my true, otherkin self is edward norton's character in the score, im glad people are finally willing to accept that
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Nominal - 2015-06-25
Why Otherkinism is rooted in social ineptitude.
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Nikon - 2015-06-25
Oh, she's on tumblr. That explains a lot. That place is a melting pot of crazy.
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Hailey2006 - 2015-06-25
Luna Lovegood?
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