Us trans people truly have the ability to melt the minds of middle-aged white people.
this ability is so strong they forget what pronouns even are
That’s my second most favourite trait of trans people.
My most favourite is that they are people living their truth.
Spoiler alert: It was his heart.
Grimes either doesn’t really have a problem with what Musk says or she’s a complete fucking idiot who had 3 kids with a man she knows to be a piece of shit.
He’s a malignant narcissist. It takes a long time to escape that kind of programing. Being in a relationship like that is basically like being in a cult.
Money probably helps too.
spot on. doesn’t help that he’s a household name with lots of fanboys. actual notoriety of a malignant narcissist partner can easily amplify the self doubt that gets spurred on by gaslighting and other manipulative methods. not to mention she has children with him so she can’t just cut him off completely. can’t say i feel for her, but i sure would want to be in her place.
He’s not a narcissist. pwNPD are a vulnerable minority of disabled people. Elon Musk is a bigoted asshole. Those are opposites.
Abusers are often victims first. You can’t really look at Musk, or any billionaire, and think, “yeah, this person is totally fine.” He’s not. None of them are.
Patriarchy and capitalism reward the unhealthy coping mechanism he uses to protect his ego. Patriarchy specifically asserts that those coping mechanisms are not only normal but optimal.
He’s absolutely a victim of this system and in a functional one he would be given help instead of power, which is literally the opposite of what he needs to be able to recognize his problems and heal.
He is who he is because the only way he can see himself as valuable at all is if he’s basically the savior of the world. Anything less than that is unacceptable garbage. Anyone who believes differently must be manipulated or destroyed.
There’s no way he can ever be happy. He needs help. It’s tragic that we live in a society where he can’t even see how much he needs help.
None of that takes away from the behaviors he expresses. The fact that his manipulation of others comes from his insecurity doesn’t take away from the manipulation, the feeling of unreality, that comes from experimenting that manipulation. Both of these things can and do exist at the same time.
That’s fair. I was using a quick and simple soundbyte to push the idea that insulting people with mental illnesses is bad. When I take a nuanced and patient approach, people usually accuse me of defending abusers and go off on a wild tangent. I’ve found it’s important to cement people’s ideas of who I am and where my criticism is coming from within the first 10 seconds of the interaction. If it takes any longer than that, they assume since I dared to disagree with them that I must be the enemy, and they project everything they disagree with onto me.
Since you’re clearly appreciative of nuance, I’ll use the nuanced argument with you. While Elon Musk may have NPD, it would be medical malpractice for a registered psychiatrist to make that judgement without having had a session with him. There are regulations against that sort of behaviour for good reason. It’s called the Goldwater Rule. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule
The danger of diagnosing public figures without the proper rigour is that people’s idea of what a pwNPD is are informed by stereotypes, and those stereotypes inform future armchair diagnoses. It becomes an ouroboros with no actual grounding in science. That’s why everyone thinks psychopaths are killers, narcissists are abusers, and obsessive-compulsives are neat freaks. These stereotypes can encourage abuse by the public of people with mental disorders.
I would suggest that narcissists and borderlines are vulnerable minorities solely because they almost always refuse treatment until it is no longer their legal choice to do so.
An adult with untreated narcissism is almost certainly going to be the least vulnerable person in all of their chosen relationships at any time.
No, that’s a harmful stereotype based in no kind of scientific inquiry.
Consider the fact that NPD and BPD are caused by child abuse. Isn’t it common knowledge that abused people are more likely to be abused in the future? Abusing a child doesn’t turn them into a superior, less vulnerable ubermensch. It turns them into someone who falls apart and cries because they tried to learn the violin and weren’t immediately great at it. After all, psychologists are doctors, and a doctor’s job is to help people who are suffering. Doctors don’t deal in morality, and they don’t label people for hurting others. What you’re thinking of is philosophers and priests, not doctors. Doctors are interested in helping the patient suffer less, not in imposing morality. This idea that a mental disorder is when you hurt other people is really bizarre. That’s not how medicine works at all.
Also treating someone as a threat their whole life is oppression. As any black man who’s been stopped in traffic by the police can tell you. Here you go treating people as a threat because of a mental disorder, the outcome is obvious.
We can recognize that somebody was a victim as a child, and recognize that may be the reason they are a danger today, but if they are untreated, and if you personally aren’t a doctor, you are likelier to be their victim than the other way around.
Something very strange just happened. I gave a long comment with three different reasons why pwNPD are vulnerable and aren’t abusers, and I elaborated on each of them. But then you just restated your belief, without including any arguments or sources. You didn’t even try to discredit my arguments. If you can’t give any reasons people should believe pwNPD are abusers, I think one could be forgiven for thinking there’s no good reason to believe your statement.
Alex Jones is a diagnosed narcissist. Tell me about his victimization and how he isn’t an abuser.
Nothing strange happened. You attempted sophistry in defense of a person who chooses right wing demagoguery which people may correctly or incorrectly diagnose as a consequence of having a personality disorder and you did so knowing full well we are in a climate where people are tired of right demagoguery. If, as you say, you are interested in scientific veracity and focus on dispassionate reasoned discussion how can you also not understand that sticking your dick in a live toaster will get you burned?
Gross
I hate this ride and I want people I know to get some fucking help instead of narcisizing all over my life.
His personality probably changed when he started taking all the drugs.
He’s always been a spoiled heir with massive wealth from apartheid and blood gems
How good could his personality ever have been, truly
well, according to legend Siddhartha Gautama was raised as a prince and he still figured out that privilege and wealth causes suffering. alas.
He shared pictures of her c+section against her will, is that drug behavior or asshole behavior? You decide!
What the hell. Why would you ever do something like that?
He wanted to brag about his skull size. I wish I was joking.
Or when he stopped taking specific drugs
Or when he started hanging out with rich right wing weirdos.
WHy not both?
I also believe this. Seen it happen before. Somebody introduces an asshole to drugs thinking it will open their mind, because it happened to them. Pikachu face when they just become a bigger asshole.
I get the impression she has very little “real world” experience, particularly with people.
I watched my mom go through a lot of bad relationships and thought the exact same thing.
Sometimes people can’t get out. Sometimes they don’t think they want to, until something finally gets through to them.
There’s a track record to suggest Grimes is a Nazi sympathizer. Elon’s LGBTQ+ rhetoric just hits closer to home, so she clutches pearls over it. Not a fan of either of them.
I don’t blame her. You can’t help who you love. It is really sad, though.
Why single out pronouns. Let’s all pile some hate on adverbs and prepositions while we’re at it. Ffs as if people wanting to be addressed using different language is something worth thinking about when there’s literally a climate catastrophe that will kill billions on the way.
But no, it’s the Pride people who are wrong. Smdh.
Can we also declare war on collective nouns? I hate them all with a blaze of passion.
All? Only a Sith deals in absolutes!
Why, indeed. Almost like it’s a deliberate attempt to distract us from real problems…or, in the particular case of Elon, an attempt to make something that isn’t about him be about him because he’s the specialist little boy.
Just saying… Shit just got real
You know what? I’m just gonna say it: nouns suck.
everything sucks. we all suck. (but we suck on different things)
Wtf are adverbs?
Oh, adverbs is a noun
Adjectives are hatred.
Prepositions are fine, they’re definitely something you can end sentences with.
And conjunctions are a great way to start
Fuck contractions.
he does not refer to anyone as he is too self-obsessed for that
edit: narcissism is a mental illness, i’m sorry if i offended anyone. when i made the comment i thought i could use it as a way of saying he’s self-obsessed, and knowing very little about mental illnesses i didnt even know NPD was a thing. if the term self-obsessed is also bad, please give me ideas for what i should change the word into
Elon Musk enjoys Elon Musk’s name so much that Elon Musk has no pronouns. You may only refer to Elon Musk as Elon Musk.
You
Elon Musk enjoys Elon Musk’s name so much that Elon Musk has no pronouns. When speaking about Elon Musk, only refer to Elon Musk as Elon Musk.
“I don’t have pronouns. Please do not refer to me.”
He’s not a narcissist, and you shouldn’t be insulting people by calling them that. Narcissists are disabled people and Elon Musk is an asshole. Those are not the same thing.
i didnt know that. im sorry if i insulted anyone, ill edit my comment now
Thank you. I don’t expect anyone to know that if they haven’t been told. You’re actually doing a million times better than a lot of people who get defensive in situations like this. Thanks for being an ally to the disabled community
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Narcissism has been used to refer to very toxic personality traits since forever, and you can use the word to describe an asshole who is a narcissist. A patient with NPD is someone who accepts that those traits are negative and is trying to outgrow them, which is definitely not all narcissistic people.
oh cool so i didnt have to edit… but i’ll leave it like that since it seems some people got offended.
“…give me a dall.” Dall?
it’s a typo, why does this have 4 upvotes lmao
Oh, okay. Calling it a typo just seemed too easy. I thought I was missing something.
what is it supposed to say?
Call
Hm I don’t know, seems like a stretch.
Please put the phone down or give me a doll
Call
Somehow I didn’t even notice until I read this. My brain 100% saw “call”
Romeo and (Rule)iet?
bro think she steven universe
_ agree! _ fucking hate ____
This can’t be real, right? Isn’t that his wife?
She was his wife at the time but they’ve since divorced
So is this screencap is old. But she called her then-husband out in public like that? Lol. Too bad it didn’t seem to help.
Ex.
in fairness to elon musk pronouns do suck. call me by my first name only
And yet you refer to yourself by pronouns multiple times in that very comment.
“me” & “my” - how very gender-specific ;)
Yea but you’ll always need them. I think having too many sucks to keep track of, but other than that I don’t care for them
Yea but [AVincentinSpace]'ll always need them. I think having too many sucks to keep track of, but other than that I don’t care for them
Fixed that for you by respecting AVincentinSpace’s preferred (lack of) pronouns.
I think they are using the generic “you”, which is an English grammar phenomenon I think is overused and should often be replaced with “one”, the unambiguously generic pronoun.
genuinely, why do they suck?
that comment was a joke (i personally do not feel that way) but i do know people who have a tough enough time nailing down their gender that none of the options really feel right
the act is disrespectful, to refer to human beings using pronouns; by referring to people using fully qualified names, respect and humility is shown. pronouns are a declaration of war on the attributed creature, as immense inferiority is implied. societies created names with purpose – and to sidestep names is to break the fabric of culture!
Everyone has fumbled a relationship with someone who feels like the once in a lifetime hottie. Please just go to therapy and meditate for a few my a day.
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